Climate-focused fintech company AVID Climate LLC, recently announced its collaboration with SunCulture, offering fractionalised investment assets - AVID Climate Units (ACUs) - which are in part comprised of tonnes of avoided carbon from SunCulture to the retail market
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Advancing investments towards agrifood systems transformation in West Africa and Sahel
The FAO Sub-Regional office for West Africa (SFW) is organising its 15th annual multidisciplinary team (MDT15) meeting in hybrid mode from 28 November to 1 December 2023, in Banjul, Gambia
New partnership fosters expansion of agribusiness opportunities for Ugandan youth
Heifer International joined forces with Canadian charity, Mastercard Foundation to expand access to agribusiness opportunities for more 250,000 youth in Uganda
El Nino fallout causes sugar prices to soar worldwide
India and Thailand have faced their driest months as the El Nino weather patterns have taken a massive toll on crop harvests, especially in case of crops like sugar that have seen a major downfall in production globally, with prices skyrocketing since 2011
Côte d'Ivoire welcomes new Better Cotton programme to boost sustainability
One of the world’s largest cotton sustainability initiatives, Better Cotton, has announced a new programme in Côte dIvoire with the aim of supporting 200,000 domestic cotton farmers in its first five years of launch