by Dianne Bayley | May 11, 2020 | Sustainability
The need for both agricultural and financial technology to track, monitor and provide statistical data to the entire agri-value chain, from farm to fork, is one that has long called for a response. Enter eSusFarm®, the agri-fintech solution that collects real-time...
by Dianne Bayley | Oct 16, 2019 | Innovation
With almost all available arable land in the Americas, Europe and Asia already productively farmed using the most developed agricultural techniques, Africa, with 60% of the world’s uncultivated arable land presents a major opportunity to meet the 70% increase in...
by Dianne Bayley | Sep 17, 2019 | Innovation
Did you know Algeria was a Mediterranean farming superpower? It was. Unfortunately, it lost its agricultural glory due to erratic rainfall and drought, writes Ankur Bhan, Founder and Head of WING Business Line, Nokia. In an effort to address this very challenge and in...
by Dianne Bayley | Sep 4, 2019 | Innovation
Africa is as capable of embracing the huge potential of this technology as the rest of the world, even within the limitations of existing infrastructure and complex connectivity challenges. Industries have adopted 2G, 3G and 4G in incremental steps as these...
by Dianne Bayley | Sep 3, 2019 | Innovation
The potential to increase Africa’s agricultural yields through the strategic use of data could place the continents’ farmers at the heart of tomorrow’s global economy. “New technologies readily available to Africa’s farmers mean that the continent is finally at the...