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Sistema.bio Raises $12 Million to Help 200,000 Farmers Worldwide Including India
The social enterprise is planning to impact 200,000 smallholder farmers in India, Mexico, South America and Kenya, with the biodigester technology in the next three years.
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- Agriculture
- Tags
- agtech, social enterprise
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Smart Tech: The New Tool for African Farmers
Farmers, crop buyers and other sector professionals have started to harness smart gadgets and crunch numbers to improve productivity, reduce costs and smooth out wrinkles in the markets, they say.
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- Agriculture, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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WorldCover Raises $6m Round for Emerging Markets’ Climate Insurance
WorldCover’s platform uses satellite imagery, on-ground sensors, mobile phones and data analytics to create insurance options for farmers whose crop yields are affected adversely by weather events — primarily lack of rain.
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- Agriculture, Environment, Finance
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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How This Hyderabad Social Entrepreneur Is Using Big Data to Change Farmers’ Lives
At a time of widespread agricultural distress caused by successive droughts, unremunerative farming and debt-trapped rural economies, a young man with his mobile app is showing how change can be brought in the life of farmers at the grassroot level.
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- Agriculture, Technology
- Region
- South Asia
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Technology Eases Farming ‘Drudgery’ and Risk as Climate Threats Grow
As climate change makes farming far tougher and more young people reject it as a career, technological innovations to make the work more secure and appealing can help, agricultural specialists told the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship in Oxford this week.
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- Agriculture, Environment, Technology
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Cathay Innovation and AfricInvest to Raise $168m Africa VC Fund
Barrier could not say when the fund would be closed, but did confirm investments could come as early as summer 2019. He expects to see strong local showing for startups from across Africinvest’s 10 country offices in Abidjan, Algiers, Cairo, Casablanca, Dubai, Lagos, Nairobi, Paris, Port Louis and Tunis. The firm will open an office in Johannesburg in the near future, according to a company release.
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- Investing
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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AgroStar raises $27M funding led by Bertelsmann India
"We intend to invest more in data science and strengthen our technology capabilities so that we can provide better real-time and relevant information to more farmers in the country" said CEO Shardul Sheth.
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- Agriculture, Technology
- Region
- South Asia
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- agtech, data, smallholder farmers, startups
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AI-Powered Robot Maker TartanSense Raises $2 Mn From Omnivore, Blume
TartanSense has planned to use this fresh funding to scale up its first product, BrijBot. Which is an artificial intelligence backed robot, designed to assist small cotton farmers in the weeding process.
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- Agriculture, Technology
- Region
- South Asia
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