Agribusiness ICT Industry

 1800 smallholder farmers to benefit from UDB digital loans

Uganda Development Bank (UDB), the country’s national Development Finance Institution, in partnership with Ensibuuko, European Union, United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF), and Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has launched a Fintech solution dubbed AgriConnect to ease access to digital financing for smallholder farmers in Uganda. The innovation, the first digital solution which can offer both […]

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Tanzania President want women, youth to drive Africa’s food agenda

Tanzania President Dr. Samia Suluhu Hassan, has officially launched Africa’s Food System Forum 2023, Africa’s premier platform for advancing the agriculture and food systems agenda on the continent. The theme of this year’s Forum – Recover, Regenerate, Act: Africa’s Solutions to Food Systems Transformation – is anchored around building back better Food Systems and Food […]

Dry Conditions Likely to Continue Over the Horn of Africa -March, May 2023
Africa Agribusiness

Dry Conditions Likely to Continue Over the Horn of Africa -March, May 2023

22 February 2022, Nairobi (Kenya) – After almost three years of persistent drought conditions, IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Centre (ICPAC) today announced that below-normal rainfall is expected in most parts of the Greater Horn of Africa (GHA) over the next three months. Delegates gathering in Nairobi, Kenya, for the 63rd Greater Horn of Africa Climate Outlook […]