Category: Agri-SMEs

What Investors Actually Look for in a Climate Tech Pitch

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Climate tech has become one of the most exciting investment categories today. Founders are building everything from carbon capture tools to clean cookstoves. Yet many promising ideas still struggle to secure meaningful funding. Passion and good intentions alone rarely convince experienced investors to commit capital. Understanding what investors truly look for can make a real…

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Agri-SMEs, Funding

Climate Funds African SMEs Often Don’t Know They Qualify For

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Across Africa, small and medium enterprises drive much of the economy. They employ millions of people and fuel growth in nearly every sector. Many of these businesses are also quietly climate relevant without even realizing it. A recycling company, a solar equipment retailer, or an efficient farm all count. Yet most of these businesses never…

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Mobile Apps Helping Farmers Time Planting Around Changing Seasons

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Farming has always depended on timing. Knowing when to plant is often more important than how. For generations, farmers relied on memory and tradition to guide this timing. They watched the sky, the soil, and patterns passed down by elders. Climate change has quietly broken many of these old, reliable patterns. Rains now arrive late,…

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Insurance Products Designed for Smallholder Farmers Facing Climate Risk

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Smallholder farmers grow a large share of the world’s food. They also face some of the greatest risks from a changing climate. A single drought or flood can wipe out an entire season. Without savings or safety nets, one bad harvest can be devastating. This is where agricultural insurance should play a critical role. Yet…

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Cold Storage and Post-Harvest Loss: The Biggest Opportunity Nobody’s Funding Enough

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Every year, farmers grow enough food to feed billions of people. Yet a huge share of that food never reaches a plate. It rots in fields, spoils in transit, or decays in markets. This is post-harvest loss, and it is a quiet crisis. Unlike droughts or floods, it rarely makes headlines. It happens slowly, invisibly,…

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KCB, Mastercard and Heifer Launch Digital Payments Pilot for 30,000 Kenyan Dairy Farmers

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KCB Bank Kenya, KCB Foundation, Mastercard and Heifer International Kenya have launched the Farmer Visibility Project, a nine month pilot designed to bring digital payments and formal financial records to 30,000 smallholder dairy farmers across Kenya. The initiative was unveiled in Nairobi and marks one of the most ambitious KCB Mastercard dairy farmers Kenya collaborations…

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Sorghum, Millet and Cassava vs Maize: What Actually Survives a Kenyan Drought

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Maize is the default crop for most Kenyan smallholder farms. It fills the plate as ugali. It has the most established seed supply chains. Local agrovet shops stock it before almost anything else. For decades, this made sense in areas with steady, predictable rainfall. But maize is a thirsty crop. It needs consistent moisture through…

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How Kenyan Farmers Are Adapting to Rains That No Longer Follow the Calendar

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In Kisii County, farmers plan their whole year around one date. It is the day the long rains begin. For generations, that day was predictable. Farmers cleared their land in March. They planted maize in the first week of April. The rains came. The crop grew. That pattern has broken down. Picture a smallholder farmer…

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Oxano Capital Invests in Delta Bee to Strengthen Uganda’s Honey Value Chain

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A Ugandan apiculture enterprise that has built its commercial model around smallholder beekeeper partnerships has secured private equity backing, with Oxano Capital finalising an investment in Delta Bee to strengthen production capacity, deepen value chain integration, and open regional and international market access for one of Uganda’s most socially embedded agricultural businesses. The Oxano Capital…

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Agriarche Raises Strategic Investment from Proparco to Strengthen Nigeria’s Food Supply Chain

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French development finance institution Proparco has invested in Agriarche, a Nigerian agri-tech company building technology-enabled infrastructure for agricultural value chains and smallholder farmer market access, through its Bridge Fund, which backs innovative women-led startups contributing to more inclusive and sustainable agricultural systems across sub-Saharan Africa. The funding strengthens Agriarche’s ability to scale its integrated model…

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