To boost rice production and enhance food security in Senegal, IFC today announced a partnership with agCelerant and Bank of Africa to help smallholder farmers and small businesses in Senegal’s rice value chain more easily access financing for growth.
Digital innovation reduces investment risk for agro-industrial stakeholders, notably bankers, insurers, input suppliers and food processors, and at the same time help increase the availability of credit and improve smallholder productivity. agCelerant combines digital tools with an innovative business model…
Digital innovation reduces investment risk for agro-industrial stakeholders, notably bankers, insurers, input suppliers and food processors, and at the same time help increase the availability of credit and improve smallholder productivity. agCelerant combines digital tools with an innovative business model…
The next frontier solution developed by Manobi Africa, powering next-gen PPPs to de-risk investments in smallholder agriculture and prepare for the shorter-circuits, more transparent, more circular, and more honorable food systems of tomorrow.
Nurturing Africa’s Digital Revolution for Agriculture – is an innovation action to develop the use of Earth Observation (EO) in contractual smallholder agriculture, improving risk management, efficiency, productivity, financial security and inclusive welfare benefits for all value chain stakeholders.
Vulnerable populations in rural and urban areas may be at a much higher recurrent risk of hunger in a context aggravated by the rising cost of food imports. Resulting social unrest could threaten development outcomes and erase recent progress towards the SDGs in the region.
The UN Sustainable Development Goal Nr.6 states that there should be safe and affordable drinking water for all by 2030.
Outwardly old-fashioned if not outright obsolete, these minimalistic receptacles the size of a large beer mug however hid a powerful stunt: Internet-Of-Things at a very affordable price. And this is significant.
Nigeria’s agricultural sector leaped one purposeful step forward with the formal inauguration of her National agCelerant Technical Committee, in the first official endorsement, at a country level, of the transformative potential of phygital agriculture.