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Acumen Invests in SokoFresh to Reduce Post-Harvest Losses for Farmers
Acumen’s investment aims to support SokoFresh in building out dozens more units, impacting the lives of thousands of farmers.
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- Agriculture, Energy, Social Enterprise, Technology
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- Global
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Drone Startup Garuda Aerospace raises $22 million funding in Series A Round
The funds will be utilised to scale up and expand the company’s operations. A part of the funds will be used for R&D thus accelerating the development of building advanced drone solutions.
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- Agriculture, Investing
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- Asia Pacific
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- innovation, startups
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Press Release: World Bank and Ethiopia Sign $40 Million Agreement to Cut Carbon Emissions Through Sustainable Landscape Management
Ethiopia has signed a landmark agreement with the World Bank’s BioCarbon Fund Initiative for Sustainable Forest Landscapes (ISFL).
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- Agriculture, Environment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Avaana Capital Hits First Close of $150-Million Climate and Sustainability Fund
Avaana Climate and Sustainability Fund invests in thematic areas of energy and resource management, mobility and supply chains, and sustainable agriculture and food systems.
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- Agriculture, Transportation
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- Asia Pacific
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Press Release: IFC and J.P. Morgan Lead $27 Million Investment Round in KLYM to Boost SMEs’ Growth in Latin America
KLYM, a data-driven fintech that focuses on providing working capital to small and midsize companies in Latin America, announced the closing of its Series B investment round for a total of US$27 million. The
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- Agriculture, Finance, Technology
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- Latin America
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- data, fintech, impact investing, MSMEs
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Partners to Unleash Financial Inclusion in Rural Senegal
The new partnership aims to increase access to digital and financial services and products across rural areas of Senegal.
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- Agriculture, Finance, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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African Development Bank Approves $50 Million and Eur 50 Million Trade Finance Transaction Line of Credit for Ecowas Bank for Investment and Development (Ebid) To Enhance Food Security and Boost Agricultural Value Chains in the Region
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group has approved a dual-currency Trade Finance Line of Credit for ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development (EBID).
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- Agriculture
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Some Things Have to Die for Others to Live: Why Scaling Down is Just as Important as Scaling Up in the Transformation of Global Food Systems
Multiple crises have exposed the fragility and inequity of global food systems. But according to Eva Valencia and Lennart Woltering at CIMMYT and Frédéric Goulet at CIRAD, strategies to transform the world's food systems typically focus on introducing or scaling up new innovations and programs, while failing to scale down the habits, mindsets and institutions that are perpetuating the problem. They explore a key example of this issue — the ongoing use of unsustainable farming practices like tilling — and discuss how farmers can move toward more sustainable "no-till" practices that protect soil health.
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- Agriculture
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