New CASA programme to benefit 565,000 smallholders in Uganda, Malawi and Nepal
A new five-year £30 million UK Department for International Development (DFID) funded programme is aiming to improve the livelihoods of 565,000 smallholder farmers and...
The 2019 Olam Prize for Innovation in Food Security goes to a pioneering mapping...
A unique mapping approach that will give smallholder farmers a ‘best fit’ for what to grow, where and how, has been awarded the 2019...
Global seed companies are addressing climate change and nutrition needs but reach only 10%...
Access to Seeds Index shows seed industry making slow progress in key regions, including Africa
Thailand’s East-West Seed leads the way, followed by...
IFAD’s new monthly podcast brings the voice of farmers in developing countries to the...
Designed to be ‘Good for You, Good for the Planet and Good for Farmers’, IFAD’s new podcast series raises awareness on the challenges smallholder...
Homegrown African seed companies outperform multinational peers in serving smallholder farmers
East African Seed and Seed Co top Access to Seeds Index for Eastern and Southern Africa
Seed industry efforts to reach smallholders...
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...
Smart tech can lead to transformational change for smallholder farmers
By; Matthew Margetts,the Director of Sales and Marketing at Smarter Technologies.
Agricultural development has the potential to boost...
New rural finance project to help boost rural enterprise sector in Mozambique
A new Rural Enterprise Finance Project (REFP), which will help more than 287,700 rural people engaged in agriculture, fisheries and small and medium-sized enterprises...
Wefarm secures $13 Million in funding to scale its Smallholder Agricultural Ecosystem
Wefarm the digital network for global small-scale agriculture, today announced it has raised $13 million in a Series A financing round led by Silicon...
Kenyan tech start-ups make it to Google’s Accelerator program for their agricultural innovation
Two Kenyan tech start-ups will be participating in this year's Google’s Accelerator program on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The two start-ups emerged...