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Funding African Solutions to the Climate Crisis: Why Local Venture Capital Innovation Holds the Key to Climate Resilience
Africa contributes just 4% of global carbon emissions and faces the world’s most devastating climate impacts — yet it receives only 3.3% of global climate finance (as of 2021/22). Dotun Olowoporoku and Dolapo Morgan at Ventures Platform argue that this disparity presents an urgent need for locally-developed innovation driven by African venture capital. They explore how African VCs can leverage this opportunity to play a central role in the continent’s climate response.
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- Agriculture, Energy, Environment, Investing
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Pioneer Facility Announces First Bangladesh Investment in Agri-Tech Innovator iFarmer
The Singapore-registered fund provides flexible debt financing to growth-stage climate enterprises driving social and environmental impact for marginalized communities.
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- Agriculture, Environment
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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Raiven Capital Launches $100 Million Climatech Fund Anchored by Frog Lake First Nation Investing in Scalable Climatech
"Raiven's Climatech Fund serves as a platform to commercialize Indigenous-led innovation, blending traditional knowledge systems such as "two-eyed seeing" with frontier technologies to develop practical, market-driven solutions in digital infrastructure and clean energy innovation."
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- Environment, Investing
- Region
- Global
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Winner of Musk-Backed $50 Million Carbon Prize Plots Agri Revolution
"Mati Carbon hopes to scale-up ‘enhanced rock weathering’ to improving agricultural yields while removing carbon from the atmosphere."
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- Agriculture, Environment
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Kaleidofin Secures $5.3 Million From IDH Farmfit to Boost Agri-Fintech Offerings
The investment will support Kaleidofin’s efforts to scale its lending portfolio and expand its technology stack, including credit scoring tools, middleware infrastructure, and risk services.
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- Agriculture
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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Bibles, Bullets and Beef: Amazon Cowboy Culture at Odds With Brazil’s Climate Goals
"The revolt of the cowboys helps to explain the rise of far right demagogues but it doesn’t change the reality of the climate crisis, which is driven by physics and chemistry, not opinion and politics."
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- Agriculture, Environment
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- Latin America
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Eratani Secures US $6.2 Million to Boost Sustainable Farming, Empower 34,000 Farmers in Indonesia
Through this new funding, Eratani aims to accelerate the implementation of modern technology, including precision farming tools, land mechanization and sustainable cultivation practices.
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- Agriculture, Environment
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- South Asia
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Bayer Opens $35 Million Maize Seed Facility in Zambia
The new maize seed facility will triple its existing capacity in the country in 2025. It will generate 80 permanent and 100 seasonal jobs.
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- Agriculture, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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