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Young innovators transforming African agriculture awarded in Accra - Winners of Pitch AgriHack competition announced

Accra, Ghana, 6 September 2019. Seven young agricultural entrepreneurs, including four women, were awarded today for digital innovations during the closing plenary at the African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF) in Accra.

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Competition to promote agri-innovation and entrepreneurship in Ethiopia

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 8 August 2019. A Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) sponsored competition that will support Ethiopian agricultural entrepreneurs was launched yesterday with a prize fund of an estimated €35,000 (over 1 million Ethiopian birr).

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CTA awards grants to support blockchain use in agriculture across ACP

CTA has awarded four grants to support the use of blockchain in agriculture across Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific (ACP).

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Untapped market for digital services to transform African agriculture worth up to €2.3 billion, new report finds

Rome, Italy, 21 June 2019. More than 90% of the market for digital services that support African smallholders remains untapped and could be worth more than €2 billion (US$2.26bn), according to a new report.

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Africa’s first online network for women entrepreneurs in agribusiness launched in Nairobi

Nairobi, Kenya, 14 June 2019. Female agripreneurs across Africa will be able to connect, network and grow their businesses thanks to the new #VALUE4HERConnect platform. More than 400 women have signed up to Africa’s first online platform for female agripreneurs, launched today at a trade fair in Nairobi.

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Ground-breaking digital innovation sought for Pitch AgriHack 2019

Wageningen, the Netherlands April 25 2019. Pitch AgriHack, the annual competition that awards young entrepreneurs in ICTs for agriculture (ICT4Ag) is open for applications. Now in its fourth year, Pitch AgriHack is an initiative by the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) that supports ICT4Ag entrepreneurs through capacity building and funding to accelerate youth employment and agricultural transformation.

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Speech by Michael Hailu, Director of CTA

The theme of this year's CWA is investment in the food and agriculture sector, and this is a critical constraint for many Caribbean producers. Marketed and distributed properly, quality fresh and value-added agrifood products can be dynamic sources of jobs and income – if only the people behind these enterprises can access the finance and business development support they need to turn them into profitable ventures.

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Investing in Food and Agriculture in the Caribbean

The theme of the 14th edition of the Caribbean Week of Agriculture Investing in Food and Agriculture in the Caribbean could not be more apt or timely. Investing in agriculture is one of the most effective ways of reducing poverty and promoting sustainability. Yet financial commitment to this sector is still inadequate in the Caribbean, as in many countries of Africa, and the Pacific, despite the promise that agriculture holds for creating jobs, incomes, food security and protecting public health.

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Tea farmers find value in their digital data

Since 2016, CTA has been working with farmer organisations in Burkina Faso, Fiji, Kenya, Lesotho, Samoa, Swaziland, Trinidad, and Tobago and Uganda, to implement their Data for Agriculture (Data4Ag) project. The aim of the project is to investigate how the collection and effective management of farmer data can be used by farmer organisations to improve the livelihoods of their members.

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Alliances for action: resilience and sustainability

Building consensus among a wide range of players will play a critical role in shaping sustainable solutions for Pacific problems, and ensuring a sense of ownership for new policies and strategies. That is the message from a side event to the Pacific Week of Agriculture (PWA), "Building resilience in Pacific agri-food/nutritious systems: Towards regional alliances for action".

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Partnerships for sustainable development

The second Pacific Week of Agriculture (PWA) explorse how dynamic partnerships can help to address some of the major challenges facing the agri-food sector in small island states in the region. Being held in Apia, Samoa from 30 September to 4 October 2019, the theme of PWA 2019 is "Enhanced partnerships for sustainable agriculture and forestry systems in the Pacific". The event follows the inaugural Pacific Week of Agriculture held in Vanuatu in October 2017.

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Harmonising Africa’s drone regulations

With decision EX.CL/Dec. 986-1007 (XXXII), the African Union (AU) has established one of the most important incentives for its member states – to use drones to boost Africa’s development and accelerate transformation on the continent. Indeed, drones have been used to solve many development problems in the fields of agriculture, health, infrastructure monitoring, surveying and soil mapping, among others, and have the potential to find further application.

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VALUE4HER: connecting women to new markets

To enhance interaction and networking among African women in agribusiness and potential investors and trade partners, a B2B trade fair was recently held by the VALUE4HER initiative in Nairobi, Kenya. Sabdiyo Dido describes the aims and outcomes of the event.

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Succeeding as a young agripreneur - Pacific youth speak out

In the Pacific islands, where the population is expected to double by 2050, there is an urgent need for youth to become entrepreneurial and creative risk-takers to help develop innovative, and environmentally sustainable, agricultural economies. But, although more than half of the South Pacific population (10 million) is under 25 years-old, these young people are experiencing problems in entering both formal and informal labour markets. Each year, 16,000 highly skilled Pacific islanders leave their countries for better paid jobs.

CTA is a joint institution operating under the framework of the Cotonou Agreement between the ACP Group of States (Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific) and the EU Member States (European Union). CTA is funded by the European Union.

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Young innovators transforming African agriculture awarded in Accra - Winners of Pitch AgriHack competition announced

Competition to promote agri-innovation and entrepreneurship in Ethiopia

CTA awards grants to support blockchain use in agriculture across ACP

Untapped market for digital services to transform African agriculture worth up to €2.3 billion, new report finds

Africa’s first online network for women entrepreneurs in agribusiness launched in Nairobi

Ground-breaking digital innovation sought for Pitch AgriHack 2019

Speeches

Speech by Michael Hailu, Director of CTA

Investing in Food and Agriculture in the Caribbean

Impact Stories

Tea farmers find value in their digital data

Alliances for action: resilience and sustainability

Partnerships for sustainable development

Harmonising Africa’s drone regulations

VALUE4HER: connecting women to new markets

Succeeding as a young agripreneur - Pacific youth speak out

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