by Dianne Bayley | Aug 10, 2020 | Innovation
The agri-chemical industry is an important component of the agricultural market in Africa, supplying farmers with animal health and agricultural chemicals such as fertilisers, pesticides, herbicides, insecticides and more. The supply chain in the Agri-chemical...
by Dianne Bayley | Jul 13, 2020 | Innovation
The story of how a Kenyan startup is digitally enabling informal traders and optimising their supply chains, to improve food quality, availability, affordability, service levels and sustainability, is one of true African ingenuity. The Twiga Foods story was a...
by Dianne Bayley | Sep 17, 2019 | Innovation
Did you know Algeria was a Mediterranean farming superpower? It was. Unfortunately, it lost its agricultural glory due to erratic rainfall and drought, writes Ankur Bhan, Founder and Head of WING Business Line, Nokia. In an effort to address this very challenge and in...
by Dianne Bayley | Sep 3, 2019 | Innovation
The potential to increase Africa’s agricultural yields through the strategic use of data could place the continents’ farmers at the heart of tomorrow’s global economy. “New technologies readily available to Africa’s farmers mean that the continent is finally at the...
by Dianne Bayley | Jul 31, 2019 | Sustainability
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations forecasts that the world’s population will reach 9.1 billion by 2050 and that global food production will need to grow by 70% to feed that number of people, writes Tony Esmeraldo, Business Director at Corteva...