Meet the founder: Ahmed Umar on how his fintech platform addresses food security for Nigerians
FoodInsure’s Ahmed Umar wants to offer a path to food savings insurance while connecting Nigerians with smallholder farmers and cheaper food prices.
FoodInsure’s Ahmed Umar wants to offer a path to food savings insurance while connecting Nigerians with smallholder farmers and cheaper food prices.
Australia’s evokeAG Startup Program is instrumental in connecting local and global startups to farmers researchers, corporates, governments and investors.
Africa is responsible for just 3% of global carbon emissions. While there are calls for developing nations to seek compensation from the world’s biggest emitters at COP27, developing nations must also look to technology to mitigate the impacts of climate change – or adapt.
Seren Kell from the Good Food Institute Europe speaks to AFN following a £20 million pledge from two UK bodies to support the sector.
African Agrifoodtech investment deals in 2021 were dominated by seed stage deals, which took 80% of 150 deals recorded.
Gramophone has partnered with Yara Ventures-backed Jai Kisan to add loans to its full stack portfolio of services for India’s smallholder farmers.
Bonbell co-founder Doaa Abdel Hameed shares here thoughts on enhancing the hospitality industry, her company’s future, and supporting female founders.
Midstream Technologies was a leading category after scooping 60% of the total amount of agrifoodtech investments made in Africa in 2021
“We don’t have 15 years to figure this problem out,” the Nowadays co-founder and CEO says of animal agriculture’s role in the climate crisis.
A look into the flow of venture capital into the agrifootech industry shows Launch Africa, Flat6Labs Cairo led in financing startups
Vendease is on a mission to be ‘Africa’s Amazon for food vendors’ by automating food supply.
Farmerline claims to have reached over 1.5 million farmers in 35 countries via its Mergdata platform.
Mzansi Meat’s Brett Thompson and Tasneem Karodia discuss how their company and South Africa’s cultivated meat industry could evolve in the near future.
Nigeria, Egypt and Kenya collectively secured close to 90% of agrifoodtech investments in 2021, according to the Africa AgriFoodTech Investment Report by AgFunder.
The Nutrition Technologies system leverages black soldier fly larvae to produce proteins for animal feed and fertilizers.
The Africa Agrifoodtech Investment Report 2022 by AgFunder, FMO and BII reveals that $482.3 million was invested into the agrifoodtech industry in 2021
The UK alternative protein sector could be a leader but it needs to improve its regulatory process and provide more funding to support its growth.
Neruva Technologies is a Kenyan-based startup that’s leveraging indoor farming to simplify agriculture and bring food production to urban markets.
The trend for African alternative protein startups is coming to the African continent. Here’s a closer look at five of them.
Ivy Farm, a cultivated meat startup in the UK, just unveiled what it claims to be Europe’s largest cultivated meat pilot plant.
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