by Dianne Bayley | May 26, 2021 | Featured Articles
In 2020, the World Food Programme (WFP), the world’s largest humanitarian organisation, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize “for its efforts to combat hunger, for its contribution to bettering conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas and for acting as a driving...
by Dianne Bayley | Nov 2, 2020 | Innovation
Perhaps it is because I grew up in the suburbs and have never lived outside of one of South Africa’s major cities, but it seems like agriculture often doesn’t get the credit it deserves, writes By Ross Jenvey, General Partner at Kingson. Like the oxygen we breathe, we...
by Dianne Bayley | Oct 26, 2020 | Innovation
One of most the prominent challenges facing Africa is providing food security for its citizens, notes Amrote Abdella, Regional Director: Microsoft 4Afrika. While many farmers still rely on traditional techniques to coax a living from the land, there are opportunities...
by Dianne Bayley | Oct 5, 2020 | Sustainability
If there is one place where the global Covid-19 pandemic has left its most significant consequence on the business sector, it is on the ability to change, writes Steve Sullivan, Executive Vice President & GM, Americas at Infinidat. Undoubtedly no one expected or...
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...
