#AfricaMonth: Kuronga is using AI to help African farmers feed the continent

[Robin Fredericks] Kuronga's efforts have been widely acknowledged, particularly with their recent achievement as one of the recipients of the esteemed Milken-Motsepe Prize in AgriTech...

#StartupStory: Desert Green Africa, addressing food insecurity in the agri value chain

[Robin Fredericks] DesertGreen is a farmer app that provides automated real-time crop nutrition, extension support, machine, and labour sharing for small-scale farmers...

#EntrepreneurMonth: How AI startup ask-jean is disrupting the SA wine tech industry

[Robin Fredericks] It's not always easy to know what wine to pair or purchase when you're planning an occasion with friends or when you're in a store having to make a selection. Ask-jean, a voluntary data hub has come along to simplify the decision-making process, with the wine consumer in mind...

#FutureofFarming: Aerobotics launches new agritech innovations to combat pest, disease

[Robin Fredericks] Cape Town startup, Aerobotics has launched five new innovations, which have been designed to help farmers with early pest and disease detection...

Agritech startup Bandim Online winner of Seedstars Bissau

[Tom Jackson] Agritech startup Bandim Online has been named the winner of the Guinea Bissau round of the Seedstars World competition...

Agritech startup named winner of Seedstars Uganda

[Tom Jackson] Agro Supply, a platform that finances agricultural technologies through mobile micro-savings, has been named winner of the Ugandan leg of the Seedstars World competition.

Ghanaian agritech startup Cowtribe planning nationwide coverage

[Tom Jackson] Ghanaian agritech startup Cowtribe hopes to cover all 10 regions of the country in the next 18 months with its solution that helps farmers access animal vaccines quickly and reliably...

Kenyan agri-tech startup Tulaa raises $627k funding round

[Tom Jackson] Kenyan agri-tech startup Tulaa, which allows smallholder farmers to access inputs, credit and markets, has raised a US$627,000 seed round to fund its continued expansion in the East African country and further develop its platform...

Zambia's eMsika helping farmers buy agricultural inputs

[Tom Jackson] Zambian startup eMsika is helping farmers find, buy and receive agricultural inputs in a fast, trustworthy and convenient way, as well as access markets for their produce...

#InnovationMonth: Smart farming technology to help feed the masses

[Cari Coetzee] 9 billion people will need feeding by 2050 and the responsibility of that feat will fall squarely into the laps of farmers, posing the question of how to sustainably produce food for the masses...

#InnovationMonth: Soil treatment that's just right

[Cari Coetzee] Innovative South African fertiliser company, Advanced Agri partnered with iDwala to bring a new range of calcium-based soil treatment products called EcoCal, to market...

Farming hackathon to take place in Nairobi

[Tom Jackson] The two-day Hack4Farming event will take place in Nairobi, Kenya in July, with agriculture stakeholders, programmers, developers and data scientists invited to come together...

Digitizing agriculture and growing knowledge

[Cari Coetzee] We spoke to Magnus Rambraut about how digitizing the industry can...