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...
Development banks fund livestock farms to the tune of US $2.6Bn
Livestock farms around the world are set
to receive US $2.6Bn in funding from the International Finance Corporation
(IFC) and the European Bank for...
IFAD invests €77.7 million in Niger for food and nutrition security and climate change...
The
International Fund for Agricultural Development of the United Nations (IFAD)
today announced a new project that will boost support for about 210,000 poor
rural...
Resilience in the time of COVID
Many companies are struggling to cope with the pandemic
that has caused deaths of well over 400,000 people globally. In Kenya it is...
Ghana Cocoa Board, African Development Bank and financial partners celebrate first $200 million disbursement...
Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) and lenders
have welcomed the first disbursement of $200 million of a syndicated loan
facility to boost cocoa productivity in...
Canada is first to commit funds to IFAD facility created to help avert food...
Canada
announced today that it will be the first country to pledge funds to a new
facility set up by the UN’s International
Fund for...
IFAD supports projects that increase agricultural productivity and incomes in Madagascar
Rural
development projects financed and supported by the International Fund for
Agricultural Development (IFAD) have helped to reduce rural poverty and
increase rural entrepreneurship in...