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Internet platforms could enable African countries to leapfrog to more efficient economic systems, but better policies are needed to support local digital enterprises.

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(AFRICAN EXAMINER) - African Development Bank (AfDB) has called for the scaling up of startup investments across Africa in order to grow tech entrepreneurs and enhance financial inclusion in the continent. AfDB’s Director General for East Africa, Nenna Nwabufo gave the charge while speaking at the 9th World Financial Innovation Series in Nairobi, Kenya. The

Deere & Co. announced today it has made a minority investment in Hello Tractor, a Nairobi, Kenya-based company connecting tractor owners with smallholder fa

/PRNewswire/ -- Deere & Company (NYSE: DE) has made a minority investment in Hello Tractor, an ag-tech company based in Nairobi, Kenya. Hello Tractor connects...

The transformation of agriculture in Uganda and Africa is in the hands of the youth

A robot army is beginning its march across rural US, promising to transform the future of food. Twenty-five intelligent machines were last month dispatched to the Midwest and the Mississippi Delta, where they are to travel over newly planted fields at 19kph, annihilating baby weeds. Produced by John Deere and created by the start-up Blue River Technology Inc, these robotic weeders look much like standard industrial sprayers at first glance, but each is rigged with an intricate system of 36 camer...

Circular design is creating new and novel ways to transform business models, product design and lifecycle, and the sharing economy.

Heifer is an international development organisation working to end hunger and poverty globally in a sustainable way by supporting and investing alongside

Stakeholders, yesterday, in Abuja, stressed the need for mechanised farming in Nigeria, stating that the development will improve agricultural productivity and address challenges faced by smallholder farmers.