The COP26 summit, held five years after the momentous Paris Agreement in which all countries agreed to work together for the first time to limit global warming to 1.5°C, was held in November 2021 in Scotland. ...
702's The Money Show's Bruce Whitfield chats to Mezzanine CEO, Jacques de Vos about their mandate to support markets with the design and development of digital solutions customers in the agricultural and healthcare spaces across Africa....
Theunis Pretorius, a farmer based in South Africa, explains how Vodafone technology is helping him make data-based decisions that increase crop growth and improve the efficiency of his business....
Digital solutions enable smallholder farmers to participate and contribute towards a greener and more resilient food value chain....
The programme, which kicked off in January, provides vouchering services to the Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development (DALRRD) in South Africa. It is part of the Presidential Employment Stimulus Initiative, or PESI, which “aims to sustain and increase employment in the agricultural...
Stephen Kinuthia, the managing executive for small-holder agriculture at Mezzanine, spoke to Kenya’s Metropol TV on 21 October 2020 about our eVouchering solution and how it is helping small-holder farmers access cheaper, quality inputs in the country....
Over the years, the procurement of government subsidised farm inputs that include fertiliser has been riddled with corruption, with the products ending up in the hands of undeserving farmers and traders....
Pretesting and training has begun on an eVouchering system for small holder farmers in Kirinyaga County in Kenya today. This marks the beginning of a two-year contract Safaricom has secured with the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Cooperatives (MoALF) in Kenya....
On the eve of the United Nations’ Micro, Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises day, the importance of SMEs has never been more critical to the economic and social fabric of African nations. ...
Rachel Bor’s neighbours chatted, laughed and shared milky tea from her tarnished kettle as they celebrated their most bountiful maize crop yet on her half-acre plot in Kenya’s Rift Valley....
