The partnership aims to enable the digital transformation of the agricultural ecosystem in Tanzania and East Africa.

Cryptocurrencies make headlines for shaking up the financial world, but they are also gaining ground in less developed countries.

Major stakeholders in agricultural mechanization have called for the adoption of a value chain approach to mechanization as one of the best options towards attaining high productivity in agriculture on Africa, writes Collins Nnabuife at the Nigerian Tribune. Speaking during...

From Africa to India, changes in the recent months and years have really brought about a paradigm shift in technology adoption by farmers.

At the same time, while Kenya’s food deficit has decreased, it remains higher than the sub-Saharan Africa and world averages, reports KBC. With the ambitions of an annual economic growth of 10%, food security was made a key part...

The fruit industry has become very complex with the amount of data available from packing and cooling facilities plus increasingly strict export regulations, according to FreshPlaza. “You have to be able to give simple answers to complex questions,” says...

Deep in rural western Zimbabwe, where tarred roads are nonexistent, Japhet Ngwenya used to spend every season worrying that the people who advise him on how to protect his crops from dry spells and pest invasions would not be...

As we enter a new decade, young African farmers are determined to invest in ag tech to curb the challenges that the country has faced for years, says contributor Stephen Korir.

It may sound like a dream, but Kenyan farmers may soon find it easy to deal with age-old enemies: the weather and pests, write Allan Kista and Caren Nyota at The Star. The Kenya Space Agency, though just slightly...

Microsoft recently launched agriculture research platform FarmBeats, aiming at making the benefits of artificial intelligence available to farmers, according to FreshPlaza. FarmBeats tracks soil temperature and moisture levels with the use of solar-based cloud computing models, taking the guess-work...

In the midst of Ethiopia's exponential population climb and the strikes of the climate emergency with erratic rains, dry spells, sharp floods and failed crops, the country has launched a digital agro-climate advisory platform, called EDACaP, to put resilience...

Australian farmer Andrew Slade got interested in ag tech while researching the possibilities of expanding the family business, reports Future Farming. “We invested quite heavily in labor-saving equipment. When we made our business as efficient as possible, I looked...

John Deere has developed an innovative private permission-based platform that allows third-party suppliers of agricultural services to use farm data to help farmers make decisions better, reports South African-based Gadget. Blended with their own data and insights, artificial intelligence...

Kenyan agri-tech startup Lentera has signed a working capital finance facility with the Kenya Climate Innovation Center (KCIC) to enable it to provide climate smart agriculture solutions to more farmers while it seeks equity investment, writes Tom Jackson at...

For the past 30 years, black farmers in Africa have grown crops on small plots, communal farmlands, and even commercial farms mostly to feed families and sell for meagre profits, writes Rochelle Neidel at New Era Live. As farmers...

Ghana-based smart farming company Complete Farmer has opened its platform to buyers who wish to purchase quality agricultural products at competitive prices, directly from the company’s tech-enabled farms, reports Modern Ghana. The team leverages technology and data to optimize the...

Did you know Algeria was a Mediterranean farming superpower? It was. Unfortunately, it lost its agricultural glory due to erratic rainfall and drought, reports Cape Business News. In an effort to address this very challenge and in line with Algeria’s...

We need more young Africans to farm. Let’s give them the tools to do so, writes Michael Hailu, director of the Technical Centre for Agriculture and Rural Development (CTA), at African Business. It has long been clear that agriculture...

Kenyan agri-tech startup Shamba Records has built a blockchain-based platform that uses artificial intelligence (AI) and big data to collect farmers’ harvest records, process payments and issue credit, writes Tom Jackson at Disrupt Africa. Founded in 2017 and already used...

In Africa, crop pests and disease have been hampering agriculture productivity for decades, writes Amindeh Blaise Atabong at Quartz Africa. Africa farmers lose an estimated 49% of expected total crop yield per annum — the highest in the world...