by Mahesh Patel | May 25, 2022 | Agriculture, Business, Economy, News
World Food Crisis – How Africa can be the long-term solution This photo by Unknown Author is licensed under Creative Commons “No matter how strong the storm, how hard the rain and how vicious the wind there is always a gap in the clouds for the light to shine...
by Mahesh Patel | Mar 25, 2022 | Agriculture, Business, News, Technology
Agritech Innovations from India: Relevance in the African context This photo by Unknown Author is licensed under Creative Commons “Unless Africa uses modern technologies, our farmers’ output will remain low and we will remain dependent on others to feed us.”...
by Mahesh Patel | Aug 16, 2021 | Agriculture, Business, Economy, Governance, Policy
Breathing new life into Kenyan cashew Since the turn of the millennium, world trade in raw cashew nuts has more than doubled, amounting to 3.6 billion kilograms of nuts produced around the world. According to the UNCTAD, African producers have accounted for...
by Mahesh Patel | May 15, 2021 | Agriculture, Business, Governance, Healthcare, News
The Shape of Water – an EFF study on potential drinking water solutions in Tanzania A pressing issue that affects many communities in sub-Saharan Africa is the lack of potable or safe drinking water. Over two billion people around the world use contaminated...
by Mahesh Patel | Jan 12, 2021 | Agriculture, Business, Gender
Cotton in Zambia – paving the way for independent women farmer leaders In Zambia, small scale farming creates more jobs than any other sector. Over 300,000 of these smallholder farmers are cotton growers. For them a good harvest of cotton can mean the difference...
by Mahesh Patel | Sep 15, 2020 | Agriculture, Business, News
Digital finance – including smallholder farmers in the equation Telecommunication technologies have advanced and spread more rapidly than I could ever have imagined. In the 80s we were using walkie-talkies to communicate in the field. Today every sphere of commerce...
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