Technology and the introduction of high-impact technological solutions has proven to be an enabler in assisting farmers and stakeholders in addressing and alleviating climate change challenges...
The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has further destabilized global food chains supplies. Technological innovations like blockchain can help address these challenges...
Abdul-Rahim Abdulai, Carling Bieg, Evan Fraser and Sarah Marquis 16 Apr 2021
Best-in-class innovators are presented with an opportunity to be future Nestlé suppliers...
The University of Pretoria's Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) and Corteva Agriscience Women in Agriculture Programme launched recently with its first cohort of participants...
Gordon Institute of Business Science 26 Feb 2021
Covid-19 restrictions on restaurants and catering have led to supermarkets being the key route to market...
Thando Vilakazi and Namhla Landani 16 Feb 2021
Launched in September 2020, the winners in the Space-Tech Earth Observation Innovation Challenge have been announced...
Agricultural mechanisation is on the rise in Africa, replacing hand hoes and animal traction across the continent...
Thomas Daum 29 Dec 2020
The search is on for sub-Saharan African startups with tech solutions aimed at addressing access to energy, agriculture and mobility issues...
The agtech market is comprised of services such as agricultural sensors for crop management, GPS field mapping, and supply chain management...
Researchers examined effect of mobile phone and internet access on farming...
Eldon Opiyo 19 Nov 2020
As a nation, South Africa is peopled by passionate wine-drinkers, consuming 4 million hectolitres (1.6% of the world's total) in 2019. While we love our wine, few of us have stopped to consider the intellectual property (IP) rights that exist in viticulture and viniculture...
Marco Vatta 13 Nov 2020
According to Ross Jenvey, general partner at Kingson, it seems like agritech often doesn't get the credit it deserves...
Data is difficult to come by, but a report in August 2019, co-authored by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation and Dalberg Advisors, claims that agritech deals in Africa totalled $143m in 2018, out of a total addressable market of $2.6bn, which talks to the huge untouched potential...
Ross Jenvey 30 Oct 2020
Congratulations to the SME companies who have won full-page BizListing entries in Bizcommunity's business directory...
Bizcommunity.com 26 Oct 2020
