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Rewriting smallholder finance: How AI is changing the game
Before sunrise, across small plots of land stretching from the temperate rural heartlands of Southern Africa to the tropical landscapes…
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What Africa can learn from Global AgTech trends
Africa’s agrifood systems sit at the intersection of the continent’s most pressing issues: food security, employment, climate resilience, and industrial…
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Kenya’s first private-sector agri-focused securitisation reaches first close
Fintech platform, Kaleidofin, closed Kenya’s first private-sector local currency securitisation in the smallholder agriculture sector, in partnership with agri-finance company…
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AfDB invests over €7.5 million in Breega Africa Seed I Fund
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group has approved a €7.5 million investment in the Breega Africa…
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Rainbow Crops awarded US$7 million grant to advance climate-resilient crops
Rainbow Crops, a next-generation agtech company developing crop genetics with enhanced complex agronomic traits, has been awarded a US$7 million…
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AfDB awards US$16.6 million grant to IITA to scale agricultural technologies in Africa
The African Development Bank Group (AfDB) and the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) have signed a US$16.61 million grant…
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VunaPay enables near-instant payments to smallholder farmers in Kenya
In many agricultural value chains, farmers deliver produce to cooperatives and wait several months for payment while buyers sell the…
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Releaf Earth pioneers new era for Africa in the global climate economy with Nigeria’s first industrial-scale carbon removal credits
Releaf Earth, a leading climate and agriculture technology company, has announced the successful issuance of Nigeria’s first industrial-scale carbon removal…
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