https://www.bizcommunity.com/412/707.html West Africa news 15 Agri Tech news - West Africa https://www.bizcommunity.com/res/img/logo.gif https://www.bizcommunity.com/412/707.html en-us Mon, 27 Apr 2026 11:34:21 +0200 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 West Africa 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 West Africa 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 West Africa https://www.bizcommunity.com.gh/Article/83/707/220493.html New farming technologies have the potential to improve livelihoods and food security in sub-Saharan Africa. Better seed varieties, soil fertility practices and pest management can all increase productivity. A United Nations Development Programme report says growth in the region's agriculture is more effective than other economic sectors when it comes to ending hunger and reducing poverty. 1-220493 Mon, 27 Sep 2021 16:09:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Agriculture Technology West Africa 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 West Africa 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 West Africa 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 West Africa https://www.bizcommunity.africa/Article/410/706/213075.html Launched in September 2020, the winners in the Space-Tech Earth Observation Innovation Challenge have been announced. The initiative, convened by the South African National Space Agency (SANSA), and ZA Space in partnership with RIIS, Maxar, FNB, SA Innovation Summit, and Anza Capital, aimed to develop early-stage tech startups that utilise downstream applications of African space technology in the agriculture, insurance, retail and sustainability and conservation industries. 1-213075 Mon, 15 Feb 2021 11:58:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Agriculture Technology West Africa https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/157/707/211573.html Digital technologies are indispensable in modern agriculture. Yet farmers themselves sometimes lack confidence in adopting particular tools before they're sure of the benefits. However, the coronavirus epidemic may serve as the turning point adopting at least one new method - precision agriculture. 1-211573 Tue, 05 Jan 2021 10:04:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Agriculture Technology West Africa https://www.bizcommunity.africa/Article/410/707/211806.html Agricultural mechanisation is on the rise in Africa, replacing hand hoes and animal traction across the continent. While around 80-90% of all farmers still rely on manual labour or draught animals, this is changing, driven by falling machinery prices and rising rural wages. During the last couple of years, tractor sales grew by around 10% annually. 1-211806 Tue, 29 Dec 2020 09:00:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Agriculture Technology West Africa