The Paris Climate Change Agreement, for the first time, has recognised food security as a fundamental priority
Food security a fundamental priority at COP21
Infrastructure
Kenyan tea factories get funding for power plants
International Finance Corporation (IFC) will provide financing to seven small hydropower plants (SHP) that will generate power for tea factories in Kenya
Three agri-tech start-ups chosen for business incubation programme
Three African agri-tech start-ups have been chosen to be part of an incubation programme meant to educate them on business know-how and bring up the condition of agriculture
Airtel funds weather information programme in Uganda
Airtel is spending US$672,000 to support a project to provide timely weather reports to small-scale farmers in Uganda
Satellite data to help Ugandan smallholder farmers
The Technical Centre for Agriculture and Rural Cooperation (CTA) has launched a US$4.96mn project in Uganda to benefit more than 350,000 smallholder farmers
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