Africa netpreneur prize officially open for applications

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The Prize aims to spotlight entrepreneurs across Africa from both technology-driven and traditional industries with a special focus on small enterprises, female entrepreneurs, and those doing work to improve local communities India, Bangalore – 28th March, 2019: The application process for the Africa Netpreneur Prize Initiative (ANPI) is officially open to African entrepreneurs from all […]

World Economic Forum video: “Up to 21 million farmers in 61 countries are using the SRI method”

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February 11, 2019: This video shown at the World Economic Forum in Davos beings with “This sustainable way of growing rice produces bumper harvests..” See what you can learn about the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in less than one-and-a-half minutes!

Can a hungry Mali turn rice technology into “white gold”?

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  BAGUINEDA, Mali, Oct 19 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – When rice farmers started producing yields nine times larger than normal in the Malian desert near the famed town of Timbuktu a decade ago, a passerby could have mistaken the crop for another desert mirage. Rather, it was the result of an engineering feat that has […]