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Reshaping Africa’s Food Systems: Three Opportunities to Drive Sustainable, Inclusive and Scalable Impact
Africa's agricultural sector is plagued by low yields, fragmented value chains and a large finance gap, and the region is home to 60% of the world’s uncultivated arable land. As Neil Wood, Oscar Garza and Hanna Dohrenbusch at Open Capital explain, these challenges have brought the sector to a critical juncture. They share three key solutions based on Open Capital's work on 450+ agriculture and food systems projects across Africa, which have the power to help drive the future of agriculture on the continent in the decades to come.
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- Agriculture, Energy, Environment, Investing, Technology
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Pula Raises $20 Million Series B to Provide Agricultural Insurance to Farmers in Africa, Asia and Latam
Global investment manager BlueOrchard led the round through its InsuResilience strategy, which aims to provide access to climate insurance to vulnerable people in emerging markets.
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- Agriculture, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Tanzania Receives Electric SGR Trains From South Korea
The locomotives, acquired from Hyundai Rotem in South Korea, can carry up to 589 passengers and travel at average speeds of 160km per hour.
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- Environment, Technology, Transportation
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Apple Made $14 Billion Worth of IPhones in India as It Shifts Away From China
The smartphone giant has been cutting its reliance on China as geopolitical tensions fester.
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- Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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Malaria Vaccine Rollout Shines Light on Value of Renewable Power
Millions to be vaccinated in huge public health effort against Malaria, which kills 608,000 a year.
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- Energy, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Press Release: Revolutionizing Africa’s Digital Payment Landscape: RegTech Africa & Agpaytech Unveil Groundbreaking Research
The research, titled “African Digital Payment Systems and Consumers’ Experience in 2023,” sheds light on pivotal insights driving Africa’s rapidly evolving payment ecosystem.
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- Finance, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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SEforALL Partners With Clean Energy Developers To Deploy Solar And Battery Storage Systems Across Nigeria
These partnerships will facilitate the deployment of high-capacity solar and battery storage systems to businesses and institutions across the country.
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- Energy, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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SunCulture Raises $27 Million in Series B Round From Investors Including Netflix Co-Founder
SunCulture supplies small solar-powered water pumps, the cost of which is subsidised by the sale of carbon credits, to small-scale farmers, allowing them to replace diesel-powered pumps in some cases and boost yields in fields that weren’t previously irrigated.
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- Energy, Investing, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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