The UK’s development finance institution and impact investor, British International Investment (BII) along with the UK-registered charity, Shell Foundation recently announced investments of US$2.1mn and US$0.5mn respectively into SunCulture, a Kenya-based company that provides solar-powered irrigation systems to smallholder farmers

A new study published in Environmental Research Letters, reveals that solar powered irrigation systems have the potential to meet more than a third of the water needs for crops across small scale farms in sub-Saharan Africa

More than 3,800 community members of the Makoko Village in Mpumalanga now join the millions of people across Africa whose lives have been transformed by the installation of Innovation: Africa’s solar water pumping systems

PhosAgro Group, one of the world’s largest producers of phosphate-based fertilisers, plans to double its fertiliser exports to Africa in the next three years