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Reshaping Africa’s Food Systems: Three Opportunities to Drive Sustainable, Inclusive and Scalable Impact
Africa's agricultural sector is plagued by low yields, fragmented value chains and a large finance gap, and the region is home to 60% of the world’s uncultivated arable land. As Neil Wood, Oscar Garza and Hanna Dohrenbusch at Open Capital explain, these challenges have brought the sector to a critical juncture. They share three key solutions based on Open Capital's work on 450+ agriculture and food systems projects across Africa, which have the power to help drive the future of agriculture on the continent in the decades to come.
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- Agriculture, Energy, Environment, Investing, Technology
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Pula Raises $20 Million Series B to Provide Agricultural Insurance to Farmers in Africa, Asia and Latam
Global investment manager BlueOrchard led the round through its InsuResilience strategy, which aims to provide access to climate insurance to vulnerable people in emerging markets.
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- Agriculture, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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$12 Million From InfraCo to Develop SunCulture’s Solar Irrigation Offering in Kenya
The 12 million dollars will support the Kenyan company's expansion in sub-Saharan Africa.
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- Agriculture, Energy, Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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InfraCo Africa Invests in Climate-Resilient Agriculture
SunCulture offers farmers a more sustainable route to managing climate-induced variability of rainfall and displaces the need to use expensive, polluting fuel-based pumps.
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- Agriculture, Energy, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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EAIF Commits Additional $30 Million to Support Indorama’s Expansion in Nigeria
The investment enables the construction of a new plant, port terminal, handling stations, and storage facilities in Nigeria.
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- Agriculture
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Analysis: A Farmer-Owned Tea Factory In The Himalayas Targets Systems Change
The ultimate goal was to create real system change that will upend the legacy of tea production which excluded farmers from the profitable parts of the process.
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- Agriculture
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- Asia Pacific
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Easter Egg Prices Soar as Cocoa Crops Are Hit by Climate Crisis and Exploitation
Experts say the global shortage of the main ingredient of chocolate is linked to poor conditions for farmers supplying large companies.
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- Agriculture
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- Global
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Nine Business Models for Productive Use of Electricity in Africa: A Framework for Generating Profit and Impact in Off-Grid Energy
Improving energy access in rural Africa is crucial for poverty reduction, but grid electricity is often inaccessible or unaffordable — and off-grid alternatives present similar challenges. Olowo Aminu, Bodunde Akinola, Nneka Chime and Mosorire Aiyeyemi at CrossBoundary argue that Productive Use of Electricity (PUE) has the potential to solve these issues, boosting household income and economic growth, while increasing profitability for energy providers. They share a framework CrossBoundary has developed to help off-grid companies and other stakeholders plan for effective PUE implementation.
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- Agriculture, Energy, Environment, Technology