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MasterCard signs deals to open up new opportunities for smallholder farmers across…
Under this partnership, key partners, the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) and the United States African Development Foundation (USADF), are providing support to further…
The business of keeping bees to save future generations
But beneath this ‘buzzing fright’, lies essential contribution to the ecosystem- pollination. According to the website sos-bees.org, published by Greenpeace, a non-governmental environmental…
IBM is using AI to Improve World’s food Supply
For the first time, IBM is providing a global agriculture solution that combines predictive technology with data from The Weather Company, an IBM Business, and IoT data to help give farmers…
NESTLE is renewing its Nescafe plan with a more inclusive target in Kenya
Nestle has renewed its Nescafe Plan in Kenya, this time with a focus on women. The multinational food and drink giant is going to spend Sh23million(over $227,000) to empower coffee growing…
Kenya’s president signs Avocado Export Deal With China
Kenyan farmers dealing in the highly popular Hass avocado are set to benefit as Uhuru affirmed that the two countries had agreed on a new export deal for the fruit.
"The avocado export…
The fruits vendor; an Icon
Under the red colored shelter, inside the Muthurwa market in Nairobi, is Jane Wambui. She sits on pilled stones, her head buried in her hands, waiting for customers to come and destruct her…
Uganda signs coffee development agreement with Vietnam
According to the minister, the agreement will see exchange of technicians and researchers, study and elaboration of projects of technical assistance and exchange of scientific and technical…
Kenyan farmers’ to directly connect with consumers
The Nairobi Farmers Market, which is under construction in the upmarket Runda Estate, will contain 45 stalls that are exclusively operated by farmers.
New strategy to tackle impact of low coffee prices
During the just concluded 124th session of the International Coffee Council in Nairobi, which brought together member governments of ICO and representatives of the Coffee community in Kenya,…
ICO to appoint consultancy firm to cushion coffee farmers
The International Coffee Organization (ICO) is seeking to appoint a consultancy firm in a bid to develop and implement a global communications plan to sensitize consumers on the economic…