Tag: agripreneurs
Adja Sembene Fall: African Development Bank AgriPitch Competition winner ‘’we started...
Senegalese businesswoman Adja Sembene Fall said she had no choice but to launch her start-up business online because her new Contanna fair-trade tea company...
$1 Billion Investment Milestone in Lending to Women Entrepreneurs in Africa
The African Development Bank’s Affirmative Finance Action for Women in Africa (AFAWA) initiative has reached a landmark $1 billion in approved funding...
Ugandan agricultural SME- MiAgro set win African Devt. Bank’s $140,000 Agripitch...
MiAgro Shoppers enterprise- is among the Twenty-five youth-led agriculture sector companies from 14 African countries that advanced to the finalist round of the...
Youth farmers in Uganda to benefit from African Development Bank’s $937,000...
The African Development Bank has launched a multinational project to create jobs and improve livelihoods for youth in Uganda. The Creating Sustainable Youth MSMEs...
Rwanda’s Lilian Uwintwali aspiring to digitalize Africa’s agriculture
Rwanda's Lilian Uwintwali, the brain behind Mahwi Tech, an Agritech firm, is aspiring to digitize agriculture in Africa. Through a platform dubbed MLIMA digital marketplace,...
World Food Day: 65% of Earth’s remaining uncultivated, arable land is...
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || ).push({}); By Beth Dunford More than six out of every 10 people in Sub-Saharan Africa work in the...
Banker-turned-poultry farmer becomes champion for African agriculture
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || ).push({}); When Ayotomiwa Yinka Ogunsua got a job as a loan officer at a microfinance bank...
Ugandan startups: Bringo Fresh, Farm Kiosk emerge finalists In the race...
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || ).push({}); two Ugandan startups are among the lucky Twenty-five young African agripreneurs advanced to the “boot camp”...
Making Farming Cool: Investing in future African farmers and Agripreneurs
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || ).push({}); The African Development Bank has called for global support for Africa’s young farmers and “agripreneurs”, highlighting how...