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IFC Partners with Tolbi to Expand Access to Finance and Markets for Smallholder Farmers in West Africa
Tolbi combines satellite imagery, artificial intelligence, and data collected by field agents to monitor crops, estimate yields, and provide tailored advice. This helps farmers make better planting and input decisions and gives lenders, insurers, and buyers greater visibility into production and risks.
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- Agriculture, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Proparco Invests in Farm to Feed to Reduce Food Loss and Strengthen Smallholder Farmers’ Market Access
Proparco has invested €150,000 in Farm to Feed, a Kenyan agritech company tackling food loss while increasing incomes and market access for smallholder farmers.
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- Agriculture, Technology, WASH
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Can India Transition to Solar Without Leaving Farmers Behind? Lessons from Rajasthan’s First Farmer-Owned Agri-PV Pilot
Earlier this year, Rajasthan’s first farmer-owned Agri-PV plant was inaugurated under the Indian government’s PM-KUSUM program. As Laxmi Sharma and Subhodeep Basu at the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER) explain, Agri-PV involves installing elevated, ground-mounted PV panels so farmers can generate electricity and additional income while cultivating the land underneath. They share learnings from ICRIER's work supporting the early implementation of this model in India, where the key challenges have involved not technical design and engineering questions, but the difficulties of coordinating people, processes and institutions — and establishing and maintaining farmer trust.
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- Agriculture, Energy, Environment
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SunCulture Closes $10 Million Solar Irrigation Securitisation
"The transaction will allow SunCulture to recycle capital tied up in customer receivables and expand solar irrigation financing."
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- Agriculture, Energy, Environment, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Twiga Foods Enters Administration After Years of Financial Pressure
"Twiga’s fall is particularly notable because of how much money and attention it attracted during its growth years."
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- Agriculture, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Five35 Ventures Completes 1st Portfolio Exit, Generates 3.5x Return From Complete Farmer Investment
The Africa Growth Fund is a US$200 million fund-of-funds designed to strengthen African-led, women-led investment vehicles and enable them to invest in businesses with the potential to contribute to inclusive growth and job creation.
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- Agriculture, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Absolute Takes Its AI-Led Biological Agriculture Platform INERA to Africa, Begins Commercial Operations in Kenya
The move comes as Africa emerges as one of the world’s most consequential agricultural growth markets.
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- Agriculture
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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IFC Partners with Absa Bank Ghana and Complete Farmer to Expand Agricultural Finance in Ghana
Supported by the Private Sector Window of the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP), the facility will finance purchases of traceable cocoa from farmers across Ghana. It will also support more sustainable farming practices aligned with the Paris Agreement on climate change.
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- Agriculture
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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