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Food Processor Gaea Foods Becomes First Beneficiary of €20 Million Pepea Fund
70% of its current 20-strong workforce are women, and the company intends to double its workforce in the coming year.
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- Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Egypt’s Cartona Raises $8.1 Million Even as Investors Pull back From B2B E-commerce in Africa
A common criticism had been that asset-light models would find it difficult to retain customers and compete against asset-heavy B2B e-commerce platforms.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Report: 24 Health Supply Chain Innovators Emerge as Market Leaders Across Africa
The report finds, amid difficult macro- economic realities and dwindling investment in African technology ecosystems, a select number of African health innovators are emerging as leaders.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Press Release: $1.7 Million Funding Boost for Innovators Advancing Clean Energy Agriculture Technology
Efficiency for Access has awarded $1.7m of funding to innovators to help develop clean energy agricultural technologies and appliances in Sub-Saharan Africa and South-East Asia.
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- Agriculture
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Food Safety Scandal Rocks China as Report Claims Cooking Oil Carried in Same Trucks as Fuel
The scandal implicates China’s largest grain storage and transport company Sinograin, and private conglomerate Hopefull Grain and Oil Group.
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- Agriculture, WASH
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- Asia Pacific
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All AI Work is Not Created Equal: Building an Ecosystem That Supports Not Just Jobs, But Employment in East Africa
With the global artificial intelligence market expected to grow to almost $830 billion by 2030, the impact of AI on employment in emerging markets is a topic of growing interest — and concern. Wendy Gonzalez at Sama explores the advantages and disadvantages of different types of AI work, and argues that the industry must build ecosystems that can support not just low-paid, crowdsourced contract jobs, but stable, formal employment if it hopes to generate lasting economic growth in regions like East Africa.
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- Technology
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Research Reveals Coffee Industry’s Economic Model Is Not Viable for All
New research commissioned by the Global Coffee Platform, IDH and Solidaridad finds that though there is enough value for everyone to make a profit in the coffee supply chain, this profit rarely reaches farmers.
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- Agriculture
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- Global
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Press Release: Cashew Coast Raises €9 Million From AgDevCo to Expand Its Traceable Organic Cashew Processing Business in Cote D’Ivoire
Cashew Coast is a fast-growing cashew nut processing business, which employs 750 people and sources from more than 7,000 smallholder farmers.
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- Agriculture
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa