Mobilizing Blended Finance for Climate Investments in Kenya
By Utsav Mulay ,Climate Finance, ESG and Carbon Markets Expert at Intellecap
Kenya faces the formidable challenge of aligning its climate action with its development...
Liberia’s rice and tilapia co-culture project celebrates first harvest
An EU-funded DeSIRA Integrated Rice-Fish Farming System (IRFFS) project in Liberia recently marked its first successful harvest, with farmers saying the co-culture approach will,...
FNB welcomes COVID-19 Loan Scheme and commits to deployment to help businesses
South Africa: FNB has welcomed the President’s announcement of the R200bn COVID-19 Loan Scheme to enable commercial banks to help businesses that are unable...
Ipec, World Bank partner to insure smallholder farmers in Zimbabwe
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a World Bank Group member, has partnered with Insurance and Pensions Commission (IPEC), a local insurance industry to create...
US $143M to be invested in Africa Integrated Climate Risk Management Programme
The United Nations’ International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the Green Climate Fund (GCF) agreed to invest $143 million for the new Africa...
Zimbabwe to maintain contract farming method
The government of Zimbabwe has announced that the contract farming concept will be maintained. Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Resettlement deputy minister Vangelis Haritatos...
AgDevCo Announces USD 3.0m Follow-On Investment Into East Africa Poultry Company, Uzima Chicken Ltd
AgDevCo is pleased to announce a USD 3.0 million follow-on mezzanine debt investment into Uzima Chicken Limited, a poultry company operating in Rwanda and Uganda.
Kenya plans to borrow key lessons from Colombia to boost its coffee production
Kenya has announced that it will work with Colombia to borrow coffee production and value addition lessons from the South American nation.
This follows a...
Cooking oil prices tamed amid the record 2023 canola harvest
Following a tough 2022 which saw a surge in both domestic and global vegetable oil prices, consumers breathed a sigh of relief in 2023...
IFAD loan of 5 million euros to Mauritania to help strengthen the resilience of...
The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the Government of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania have signed a loan agreement for 5 million...