Agriculture

ecosystem

Smaller African countries are industrialising faster than their larger peers

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A new crop of African farmers are leveraging social media to scale

Agrictech

A new crop of Kenyan farmers are leveraging social media to scale

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Newsletters

The Next Wave: Who will feed Africa?

Abraham Augustine

This bootstrapped drone startup is promoting smart farming in Zimbabwe

Guest Post

How a bootstrapped drone company is helping commercial and smallholder farmers

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Nigerian agric company Tomato Jos raises €3.9 million for irrigation and processing plant

Guest Post

This student’s invention helps tomato farmers in Cameroon curb post-harvest losses

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Features

The untold story of how ThriveAgric survived a turbulent 2020

Daniel Adeyemi

An inventor who brought relief to West Africa's kitchens turns to agriculture. Image credit: bird story agency.

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Togolese inventor builds $12,000 mini tractors for the West African market

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Investments in agriculture. Image credit: Greenbiz

FinTech

From celebrated platforms to fraud claims: Why Nigeria’s agric crowdfunding fintechs came crashing down

Michael Ajifowoke

Nigeria's Releaf secures $4.4m funding to industrialize food processing in Africa

startups

Nigeria’s Releaf secures $4.2m funding to industrialize food processing in Africa

Damilare Dosunmu

Agricorp raises $17.5M pre-series A fund from Vami Farms, PiggyVest, others

startups

Agricorp raises $17.5m pre-series A fund to enhance global food system

Damilare Dosunmu

Agritech

South African agritech startup Skudu raises funding from AgVentures

Daniel Adeyemi

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The Next Wave

The Next Wave: Software is eating agriculture

Alexander Onukwue

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Agritech

South African startup raises $17m to use drones and satellites to provide farmers with crop data

Alexander Onukwue

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Agritech

Ethiopia-born Sara Menker’s Gro Intelligence raises $85m in Series B funding

Alexander Onukwue

An aeroponic tomato farm

Entrepreneurship

How soil-less farming aims to tackle Nigeria’s 11 billion dollar annual food imports

Wole Olayinka

The Lagos State government is planning to introduce a new license agreement for bike hailing startups to allow them operate within the state. According to a source with an understanding of the matter, startups will pay a license fee of N25 million (about $70,000) annually per 1,000 bikes. A further N30,000 will be paid for each registered bike rider after the 1,000 mark.

Funding

Cooling technology company Sure Chill sets sights on Africa expansion with £4 million Series A investment

Kay Ugwuede

Features

Interested in building Nigeria’s agric sector? Farmcrowdy’s got you

Mobisola Atolagbe

News

OLX is setting up pickup points for farm inputs in Kenya

Loretta Adamu

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