https://www.bizcommunity.com/129/707.html Malawi news 15 Agri Tech news - Malawi https://www.bizcommunity.com/res/img/logo.gif https://www.bizcommunity.com/129/707.html en-us Sat, 04 Apr 2026 02:52:08 +0200 https://www.bizcommunity.com/article/africas-forgotten-foods-research-wins-prestigious-us-cozzarelli-prize-895753a An international research team has won the 2023 Cozzarelli Prize for a paper on the potential of ‘forgotten’ food crops in sub-Saharan Africa to provide healthy diets in a changing climate. 1-248459 Thu, 16 May 2024 12:20:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Agriculture Technology Malawi https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/1/472/230476.html Farmers are adopting precision agriculture, using data collected by GPS, satellite imagery, internet-connected sensors and other technologies to farm more efficiently. While these practices could help increase crop yields and reduce costs, the technology behind the practices is creating opportunities for extremists, terrorists and adversarial governments to attack farming machinery, with the aim of disrupting food production. 1-230476 Thu, 11 Aug 2022 09:55:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Agriculture Technology Malawi https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/157/839/226246.html ThriveAgric, a Nigerian technology-driven agricultural company, has raised $56.4m in debt funding from local commercial banks and institutional investors. The raise also included a co-investment grant of $1.75m from the USAID-funded West Africa Trade and Investment. 1-226246 Wed, 23 Mar 2022 10:19:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Agriculture Technology Malawi https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/1/707/220675.html The winners of the 2021 edition of the annual International Innovation Award for Sustainable Food Systems have been announced. The awards, a joint initiative of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the Federal Government of Switzerland, were announced in a virtual ceremony with the participation of FAO director-general QU Dongyu and Christian Hofer, director-general of the Federal Office for Agriculture of Switzerland. 1-220675 Mon, 04 Oct 2021 09:51:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Agriculture Technology Malawi https://www.bizcommunity.africa/Article/410/494/217785.html Noël N'guessan, a chemical engineer from Côte d'Ivoire, has been named the winner of the Royal Academy of Engineering's 2021 Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation. N'guessan and his team designed and patented Kubeko, a biowaste equipment innovation for smallholder farmers in West Africa to generate more income from the by-products of their harvests, without any additional labour. 1-217785 Fri, 09 Jul 2021 11:37:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Agriculture Technology Malawi https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/1/358/214911.html Global food supply chains proved brittle during the Covid-19 pandemic, leading for calls to boost the resilience of global food supply chains through improved efficiency in production, distribution and consumption of nutritious food. How could technologies like blockchain that provide data to producers, distributors and consumers be part of the solution? 1-214911 Fri, 16 Apr 2021 07:26:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Agriculture Technology Malawi https://www.bizcommunity.africa/Article/410/162/213935.html Nestlé has partnered with COOi Studios to launch an open-innovation platform called Nestlé Hatcher. The initiative offers innovators and startup businesses opportunities to work with the food manufacturing company to collaborate, in solving some of the current business challenges across the east and southern Africa region (ESAR). 1-213935 Mon, 15 Mar 2021 10:01:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Agriculture Technology Malawi https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/196/183/213090.html Agriculture and agro-processing value chains have been under pressure during the Covid-19 pandemic. This has been particularly marked where they remain underdeveloped, as is the case in South Africa and the rest of the region. 1-213090 Tue, 16 Feb 2021 07:15:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Agriculture Technology Malawi https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/1/707/210662.html According to a new study by Juniper Research, the total value of the agtech market will reach $22.5bn by 2025; rising from $9bn in 2020. This represents an average annual growth rate of 150% over the next five years. 1-210662 Thu, 26 Nov 2020 08:34:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Agriculture Technology Malawi https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/1/707/208368.html Depending on who you listen to, artificial intelligence may either free us from monotonous labour and unleash huge productivity gains, or create a dystopia of mass unemployment and automated oppression. In the case of farming, some researchers, business people and politicians think the effects of AI and other advanced technologies are so great they are spurring a "fourth agricultural revolution". 1-208368 Wed, 16 Sep 2020 11:07:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Agriculture Technology Malawi