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Climate change impacts, and the need for youth jobs and a green energy shift could remake African farming – if the money is there.

For many young Africans, food is the source of exciting business opportunities.

The hunger crisis and rising rates of global poverty cannot be solved without the economic empowerment of women smallholder farmers.

Three African youth-led Agritech businesses will receive mentorship and $1.5 million in grants to help them to aggressively expand solutions to long-standing challenges faced by smallholder farmers across the continent.

President and CEO Surita Sandosham reaffirmed Heifer International’s commitment to smallholder farmers in Africa.

A perennial topic in the coffee industry is the balance of economic sustainability and market forces.

Even as cryptocurrencies collapse and draw “I told you so” heckles from critics, a venerable development and antipoverty group is deepening its digital-cash fundraising. The goal: attract cryptodonations but also test new ways to build relationships with everyday donors.

The shock to the global food system sparked by the war in Ukraine is hitting sub-Saharan Africa especially hard. That’s because the region’s imports of commodities like wheat, maize and rice and finished food products have soared over the last few decades, reaching some $35 billion by 2020.

In an effort to boost food sufficiency, Heifer International, an international development organisation, has announced an additional $3.5 million to fund its tractor financing initiative in Nigeria, Kenya and Uganda. The firm said the move was consistent with its primary goal of catalysing agricultural and economic development in Africa.