Potential investment avenues in Agribusiness in Africa
Agribusiness plays a vital role in economic development,
contributing a major portion of GDP, employment, and foreign exchange earnings
in many developing countries. This...
IITA, EAGC partner to tackle aflatoxin contamination in grains
The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and the Eastern Africa Grain Council (EAGC) Tuesday have partnered to tackle aflatoxin contamination of...
Agricultural investment:the key to the war on pandemics
Because of the COVID-19 outbreak, measures have been taken in an attempt to curb the pandemic: lockdowns and economic shutdowns. Kenya is...
Regional Integration as a Tool for Wealth Creation in Africa
By Khaled SherifThe COVID-19 pandemic and its health and economic impacts has forced a global rethink of the...
Seed stage investing and why it matters for Africa’s startup and innovation community
Amadou Daffe from Gebeya (An Ethiopian EdTech company training top talented African Software Engineers specialized in several industries including AI,...
Three East African entrepreneurs among 21 finalists in the nutrition pitch competition for African...
In the 2018 Africa SUN Pitch Competition final, Kennie-O Cold Chain Logistics, a Nigerian SME that moves food from producers to...
Vital Capital Collaborating With USAID’s Kenya Investment Mechanism to Provide Financing to Kenyan Businesses...
Vital Capital, a pioneering impact
investment, private equity fund focused on companies in sub-Saharan Africa, has
announced a collaboration with the U.S. Government’s Kenya...
Cold Solutions Kenya to invest US $70m in state-of-the-art storage warehouses in the country
Cold Solutions Kenya Limited has announced that it will invest US $70m in constructing state-of-the-art, temperature-controlled cold storage warehouses in the country....
Tanzania: African Development Bank project tripled incomes of rural producers and traders
An African Development Bank project to enhance market infrastructure, value addition and rural finance (MIVARF) (https://bit.ly/38xRvFo) in Tanzania produced highly satisfactory results,...
Adoption of precision agriculture to match fertilizer inputs in livestock farming
Livestock farmers are increasingly adopting precision
agriculture techniques to match fertilizer inputs more closely to grassland
requirements. The techniques, underpinned by a combined package...