PepsiCo launches fund to build South African sustainable food system
Food and beverage company PepsiCo has launched the Kgodiso Development Fund – a five-year, R600-million investment to help transform the food system in South...
African Development Bank Group approves $127 million package to open up eastern agricultural areas
On Wednesday in Abidjan, the African Development Bank Group approved funding of $127.8 million to Niger. The funds approved by the Board of Directors of...
EIF launches urban agriculture grant in Namibia
The Environmental Investment Fund of Namibia (EIF) has launched the urban agriculture grant e-voucher card issuance and terminal roll-out in Namiba.The urban agriculture programme,...
Tuğrul Tarim, one of Turkey’s leading raisin exporters, invests in the innovative new TOMRA...
Tuğrul Tarım, the second-largest raisin exporter in Turkey, continues its operations in Manisa region which almost meets the entire dried grape production in Turkey...
SupPlant Raises $27M To Help South African Farmers Fight Climate Change
The AgTech company SupPlant, has recently been chosen as one of TIME’s Best Inventions, is excited to announce its recent funding round, raising $27M...
World Bank Group’s Global Index Insurance Facility announces winners of the Africa AgTech &...
The Global Index Insurance Facility (GIIF), a World Bank Group program, announced the three top winners of the Africa AgTech & Inclusive Insurance Challenge, a competition for technology-led enterprises in Africa to offer innovative...
How this Savings Cooperative in rural Uganda will serve women and their families
By M. Scott Frank and Ronald KibirigeGrowing up, 38-year-old Namata Goretti dreamed of becoming a doctor. But due to her family situation, she -...
IFAD-funds cooperative projects to increase coffee and cocoa production in eastern Cuba
The UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the Government of Cuba hosted an event today at the Hotel Nacional in Havana to...
ISDB/LLF project seeks genetic improvement of local cattle in Kano with N113 Million investment
Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje of Kano State, on Saturday launched the Kadawa Animal Insemination Center, renovated and equipped by the Kano state Agro-Pastoral Development...
Norwegian Minister Tvinneriem and IFAD President Houngbo to visit Malawi in wake of storms...
With Malawian farmers still reeling from tropical storms that devastated crops and livelihoods in recent weeks, Norway’s Minister of International Development and the President...