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Angola Launches $211 Million Agricultural Value Chain Project to Transform Eastern Economy and Cut Food Imports
The Eastern Region Agricultural Value Chain Development Project is designed to support production, processing, storage and marketing across crops including wheat, rice, soybeans, beans, groundnuts, cassava, coffee, cocoa and palm oil. The African Development Bank approved $211.4 million for the project in November 2025.
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- Agriculture
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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EcoNomad Solutions Secures £230K for On-Farm Waste-To-Energy System
"Small and mid-sized livestock farms face mounting pressure from rising energy and fertiliser costs, tightening slurry and waste regulations, and pressure to reduce methane emissions. Yet existing anaerobic digestion systems are engineered for large industrial-scale operations, making them uneconomical or operationally impractical for smaller producers."
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KCB Bank Kenya and European Bank for Reconstruction & Development (EBRD) Sign US$100 Million Facility to Expand SME Financing
Under the framework, 35 per cent of the facility will be directed towards women and youth-led enterprises, while 30 per cent will finance eligible green investments, enabling businesses to adopt climate-smart technologies and sustainable business practices.
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- Agriculture, Environment, Finance, Investing, Social Enterprise
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Analysis: The AI Sustainability Paradox
AI is being sold as a tool to solve sustainability’s hardest data problems, from Scope 3 emissions to climate-risk intelligence. But the infrastructure behind that intelligence — data centers, water use, energy demand, chips, grids, and community consent — is becoming its own sustainability test. Drawing on conversations at Trellis Impact 26, Ming Wong explores what AI’s physical footprint means for impact investors, corporate sustainability leaders, and the communities being asked to host the next generation of digital infrastructure.
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- Energy, Investing, Technology
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- Global
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Analysis: When “Sustainable” Quietly Means “Without the Farmer”
We are watching the early industrialisation of food categories that have, for centuries, been grown by smallholders in the Global South. The sustainability story we tell about it is real. It is also incomplete in a way that matters.
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- Agriculture
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- Global
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UN Report Flags $800 Billion Climate Fund Gap in Asia-Pacific, Calls for Synergistic Action
The report titled ‘Asia-Pacific synergies report: Advancing synergistic solutions to the triple planetary crisis and the SDGs’ said that framing cooling as a health and safety issue strengthened political support and facilitated coordination across energy, urban, labour and social sectors.
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- Energy, Environment
- Region
- Global
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Coast 4C Secures Funding to Scale Smallholder Seaweed Farming in Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia produces the majority of the world’s carrageenan, a seaweed-derived ingredient used across food, cosmetics, and pharmaceuticals, but supply remains fragmented across informal networks, limiting quality, consistency, and farmer income.
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- Environment, Investing
- Region
- South Asia
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Bestseller Supports Regenerative Agriculture in South Africa Through International Fund
The Regenerative Fund for Nature supports projects that are based on local knowledge and existing practices. It was established by Conservation International and Kering in 2021 with Inditex joining in 2023. BESTSELLER is now joining the fund as a partner.
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- Agriculture, Investing
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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