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Kenyan Agri-Fintech Startup Apollo Agriculture Secures $10 Million From Swedfund and ImpactConnect to Empower African Farmers
This capital injection will enable the company to empower more small-scale farmers with the tools and resources they need to increase their profits, adopt sustainable practices, and boost food security.
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- Agriculture, Finance, Investing, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Report: African Smallholder Farmers Benefit from Reduced Crop Losses and Higher Incomes from a Novel Pest Alert Service
This review is a keystone paper that brings together six years of work on PRISE.
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- Agriculture, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Kenyan Agritech Startup, Shamba Pride, Secures $3.7 Million for the Expansion of Its Merchant Network
Shamba Pride uses digital technology to equip agro-dealers, empowering them to manage their businesses and order inventory efficiently.
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- Agriculture
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Nigeria’s Zebra CropBank Attracts Funding to Bolster Africa’s Small-Scale Farmers
The funding is aimed at expanding Zebra CropBank’s activities, predominantly via the deployment of solar-powered micro-warehouses.
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- Agriculture, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Governor Abdulrazaq Inaugurates Steering Committee For SAPZ Project in Kwara, Nigeria
Supported by the Islamic Development Bank and counterpart funding from the state government, SAPZ is a $57.2m project designed to promote agroprocessing and sustainable farming.
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- Agriculture, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Floods, Drought… African Farmers Soon to Be Insured to the Tune of $1 Billion
More than 40 million farmers in Africa could soon benefit from financing to manage the risks to their crops from climatic phenomena such as floods and drought.
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- Agriculture, Environment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Rwanda Launches $2 Million Facility to Provide Financial and Technical Support to Agritech Startups
The allocation of funds is set to tackle food-related challenges in the nation and stimulate innovation in East Africa.
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- Agriculture, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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NextBillion’s Most Influential Articles of 2023: Announcing the Three Winners of our Annual Contest
As 2024 gets underway, we'd like to announce the results of NextBillion’s annual “Most Influential Article of the Year” contest. This year's contest featured a strong slate of articles, covering a diverse array of topics ranging from systems change to decarbonization, in sectors that included energy, agriculture, finance and more. We've highlighted the three winners, as selected by our readers, in this article.
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- Agriculture, Energy, Environment, Finance, Investing, Social Enterprise, Technology, WASH