Satellite data for agricultural index insurance

How can we ensure that drought is no longer an outright disaster to smallholder farmers in Africa, but instead a manageable risk? With low-cost satellite-based index insurance products that monitor climatic conditions in near real-time and automatica…

Interview with Jemimah Njuki

We must improve understanding of the integral role and value of women

Dr Jemimah Njuki, senior programme specialist at Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC), highlights the ongoing challenges that women entrepreneurs face in running a successful agribusiness and offers innovative solutions to bett…

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Young entrepreneurs lend glamor to African agriculture

In a long-sleeved shirt and jeans, expertly navigating eastern Rwanda’s bumpy back roads in a white four-wheel drive, Dieudonne Twahirwa looks nothing like the stereotypical African farmer.

The smart climate observation network that covers all Africa

There is a lack of weather and climate observation stations in Africa, while food production, harvest predictions, and disaster mitigation would benefit from improved data-accessible observation. A new smart and sustainable weather and climate observ…

Dossier: ICT4Ag start-ups

ICT start-ups for crop production and marketing

Private technology developers across the Caribbean are creating market information systems to help farmers make better decisions in the field and link them to new markets. These emerging e-agriculture business models are improving crop production and…

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