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How India’s Farmers Are Using Technology to Feed More Than a Billion People
Piggybacking on India's mobile boom, these companies are using smartphones and the internet to help farmers grow, harvest and sell their crops more efficiently.
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- Agriculture, Technology
- Region
- South Asia
- Tags
- agtech, social enterprise
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Blockchain Powered AgUnity Named Winner of BBVA Open Talent Sustainability 2019
Two pilot programmes from the start-up showed promising results in helping farmers tripe their income by supporting equipment lending and securing trading value.
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- Agriculture, Technology
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This AI Helps Kenyan Farmers To Know When To Plant Their Crops
In order to see how artificial intelligence, machine learning and big data could help those farmers, French consultancy firm Capgemini teamed up with a Kenyan social enterprise in the Kakamega region in Western Kenya.
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- Agriculture, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Capgemini Turns to AI to Fix Food Supply Chain Sustainability
Business consulting giant Capgemini has launched a project which uses artificial intelligence (AI) to support farmers in improving environmental practices on their land.
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- Agriculture, Technology
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Surviving the ‘Valley of Death’: A New Funding Database Aims to Help Agtech Companies Avoid Early-Stage Failure
Population growth and climate change are bringing extraordinary challenges to the agriculture sector in emerging markets. But though small- and medium-sized enterprises are essential to addressing these issues, they remain underfunded – particularly in the period before they become profitable (often referred to as the ‘‘Valley of Death’’). Aarno Keijzer at NpM explores these challenges, and presents a free database that NpM has compiled, highlighting funds that can help early-stage agriculture companies bridge this financial gap.
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- Agriculture, Technology
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- agtech, business development, data, failure
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These Agritech Startups Will Take Southeast Asia’s Emerging Market to the Next Level
Despite the minimum media attention, these startups are building innovation to help their respective countries and its agriculture sector tackle challenges and make progress.
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- Agriculture, Technology
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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Blockchain Blossoms in Haiti
As a developing economy, Haiti faces unique challenges — the country is more traditionally associated with earthquakes than with tech innovation. Haiti today is a hotbed of applied blockchain projects, projects that are expanding our understanding of the technology’s potential.
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- Technology
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- agtech, blockchain
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Press Release: Untapped Market for Digital Services to Transform African Agriculture Worth up to €2.3 Billion, New Report Finds
“Digitalisation can be a game-changer in modernising and transforming Africa’s agriculture, attracting young people to farming and allowing farmers to optimise production while also making them more resilient to climate change,” said Michael Hailu, Director of CTA.
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- Press Release
- Categories
- Agriculture, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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