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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
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- Asia Pacific
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Blockchain Blossoms in Haiti
As a developing economy, Haiti faces unique challenges — the country is more traditionally associated with earthquakes than with tech innovation. Haiti today is a hotbed of applied blockchain projects, projects that are expanding our understanding of the technology’s potential.
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- Technology
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Press Release: Untapped Market for Digital Services to Transform African Agriculture Worth up to €2.3 Billion, New Report Finds
“Digitalisation can be a game-changer in modernising and transforming Africa’s agriculture, attracting young people to farming and allowing farmers to optimise production while also making them more resilient to climate change,” said Michael Hailu, Director of CTA.
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- Press Release
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- Agriculture, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Sistema.bio Raises $12 Million to Help 200,000 Farmers Worldwide Including India
The social enterprise is planning to impact 200,000 smallholder farmers in India, Mexico, South America and Kenya, with the biodigester technology in the next three years.
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- Agriculture
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Smart Tech: The New Tool for African Farmers
Farmers, crop buyers and other sector professionals have started to harness smart gadgets and crunch numbers to improve productivity, reduce costs and smooth out wrinkles in the markets, they say.
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- Agriculture, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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WorldCover Raises $6m Round for Emerging Markets’ Climate Insurance
WorldCover’s platform uses satellite imagery, on-ground sensors, mobile phones and data analytics to create insurance options for farmers whose crop yields are affected adversely by weather events — primarily lack of rain.
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- Agriculture, Environment, Finance
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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How This Hyderabad Social Entrepreneur Is Using Big Data to Change Farmers’ Lives
At a time of widespread agricultural distress caused by successive droughts, unremunerative farming and debt-trapped rural economies, a young man with his mobile app is showing how change can be brought in the life of farmers at the grassroot level.
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- Agriculture, Entrepreneurship, Technology
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- South Asia
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Technology Eases Farming ‘Drudgery’ and Risk as Climate Threats Grow
As climate change makes farming far tougher and more young people reject it as a career, technological innovations to make the work more secure and appealing can help, agricultural specialists told the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship in Oxford this week.
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- Agriculture, Environment, Technology
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