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Press Release: Yolélé Secures $1.98 Million in Funding for Improving Smallholder Value Chains
USAID / Prosper Africa award co-investment grant to Yolélé and Mali Shi SA, boosting fonio export from Mali and creating 13,700 jobs.
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- Agriculture
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Mozambique: $47.09 Million Grant From African Development Fund for Special Agro-Industrial Processing Zone
The grant, from the African Development Fund, will help improve agricultural productivity and agribusiness development in the Niassa province by advancing institutional capacity, skills, and entrepreneurship to spur agricultural value chain growth.
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- Agriculture
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Viewpoint: Agricultural Research Fights Global Food Shocks
As farming costs rose and food crops were diverted to biofuels, progress toward food security, health and prosperity all over the world was reversed.
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- Agriculture
- Region
- Global
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FoodMap Raises US $3 Million to Connect Farmers, Food Producers Directly to B2C, B2B Customers in Vietnam
FoodMap aims to solve the gap between demand and supply across the invisible supply chain with a back-end management system for farmers and suppliers.
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- Agriculture, Technology
- Region
- South Asia
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Analysis: How Farming Innovations Can Feed the World and Protect the Planet
Innovative technologies and practices are critical to enable sustainable farming that can feed the world.
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- Agriculture
- Region
- Global
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Empowering Haitian Farmers Through Investment in Local Food Systems
Acceso Haiti, a social agribusiness, is working to build a strong food system and empower smallholder farming families with long-term opportunities and market access.
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- Agriculture
- Region
- North Africa & Near East
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African Development Bank Pays $24 Million to Increase Investment in West African Development Bank
The AfDB also approved a line of credit to support businesses in the West African Economic and Monetary Union, particularly in job-creating sectors.
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- Agriculture
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Family Bank Commits $53.1 Million to Finance Agribusiness
Family Bank has announced that it will release Ksh. 6 billion to be extended as affordable credit to agribusinesses across 17 counties through the USAID’s Pay for Performance initiative under the Kenya Investment Mechanism program.
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- Agriculture, Finance
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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