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USAID, Awash Bank To Help Small Agribusinesses In Ethiopia
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and Awash Bank announced a new partnership that provides $6.4 million to microfinance institutions and small- and medium-sized agricultural businesses in Ethiopia.
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- Agriculture
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Press Release: ABC Fund Makes First Investment, Backing Cocoa Cooperative in Côte D’Ivoire
This investment will support over 2,700 cocoa farmers and is the first of a series of investments into cocoa cooperatives that together will help 10,000 cocoa farmers gain greater market access and secured revenue.
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- Press Release
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- Agriculture, Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Smallholders as Customers, Not Pupils: Making the Case for Good Agricultural Practices
Good agricultural practices offer smallholders the promise of improved food safety, food quality and environmental stewardship. But they also bring the risks of implementing costly new methods and standards. To overcome farmers' reluctance to adopt these practices, Ben Fowler of MarketShare Associates and Clara Yoon at MEDA write that agricultural organizations should adopt a customer-centric approach – treating smallholders as customers rather than beneficiaries of know-how.
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- Agriculture, Entrepreneurship
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Kenya’s Twiga Foods Eyes West Africa After $30M Raise Led by Goldman
Twiga will use the funds to set up a distribution center in Nairobi and deepen its conversion to offering supply chain services for both agricultural and FMCG products.
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- Agriculture
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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$40M Palladium Impact Fund to Focus on Agribusiness, Off-Grid Clean Energy
A $40-million fund launched last week by Australia-based global impact firm Palladium aims to invest in agribusiness value chains and off-grid clean energy ventures in Ghana, Kenya and Nigeria.
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- Agriculture, Energy, Investing
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Surviving the ‘Valley of Death’: A New Funding Database Aims to Help Agtech Companies Avoid Early-Stage Failure
Population growth and climate change are bringing extraordinary challenges to the agriculture sector in emerging markets. But though small- and medium-sized enterprises are essential to addressing these issues, they remain underfunded – particularly in the period before they become profitable (often referred to as the ‘‘Valley of Death’’). Aarno Keijzer at NpM explores these challenges, and presents a free database that NpM has compiled, highlighting funds that can help early-stage agriculture companies bridge this financial gap.
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- Agriculture, Technology
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These Agritech Startups Will Take Southeast Asia’s Emerging Market to the Next Level
Despite the minimum media attention, these startups are building innovation to help their respective countries and its agriculture sector tackle challenges and make progress.
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- Agriculture, Technology
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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Jamaica Wants To Expand Agriculture, But Agribusinesses Are Finding It Impossible to Access Capital
Due to limited access to financial markets and a lack of legally recognized ownership of land, female-led agribusinesses are even more financially vulnerable.
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- Agriculture, Finance
- Region
- North America
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