September 27, 2019
SkyFox To Raise Capital Through IPO
SkyFox Ltd., a small capital markets initiative, sells Ghanaian farmers shares in fish production cooperatives to aid in increasing farm yields through nutrient irrigation and in feeding the population. Now the company is stepping up…
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It’s All About Results for USAID’s SWFF Chief
Dr. Ku McMahan, the mild-spoken leader of USAID’s innovative Securing Water for Food (SWFF) program, is hard-nosed when it comes to results. “If a project comes up short, we didn’t do our jobs,” he says….
Read MoreSeptember 25, 2019
The Soil Whisperer of India. Innovation Mixed with Care.
You can call K.S. Gopal the soil whisperer, and you wouldn’t be exaggerating the influence of this career agricultural specialist, educator, and innovator in India. Gopal talks of the soil in near poetic terms. Over…
Read MoreSeptember 24, 2019
Hydroponics Africa: Feeding the Malnourished In the Refugee Camps of Northern Kenya
There are more than 250,000 Somalian and Sudanese refugees crowded into the world’s third-largest camp for displaced people in a parched section of Northern Kenya which is known for its extreme climate. Many of these…
Read MoreSeptember 23, 2019
What Happens When There’s Too Much Irrigation? Tech Entrepreneur in Vietnam Found the Answer
Over much of the world, farmers lack water to irrigate their crops. In the Central Highlands of Vietnam, farmers use too much water for irrigation. The need for efficiency was apparent to Nguyen Khac Minh…
Read MoreSeptember 22, 2019
The “Big Stomach”: Turning Waste to Energy
When Vianney Tumwesige sees a blue flame in the kitchen of a farmhouse in Uganda, he gets a little giddy. There’s a good chance the gas fire comes from one of his “big stomachs.” The…
Read MoreSeptember 21, 2019
Young Team Develop Irrigation Solution Using Only the Force of Rivers and Streams
What does a team of young people—the oldest being 32-years-old—working in the Netherlands have in common with poor farmers in the shadows of the Himalayan Mountains of Nepal? Everything. They represent a future of clean energy,…
Read MoreSeptember 20, 2019
Teach a Man or a Woman About Aquaponics, Feed Him or Her for a Lifetime
If you can raise guppies in an aquarium, you can produce whiskered catfish for dinner tables in poverty-stricken areas across Uganda. That was the “wild idea” Henry Mugisha Bazira, a water resources expert in Kampala,…
Read MoreSeptember 19, 2019
In a Land Where Tractors Don’t Work, Ethiopian Engineer has a Low-Tech Solution
When thinking of farming, one might visualize gigantic tractor combines. But not Dr. Melesse Temesgen, an Ethiopian engineer, he sees a big, strong animal—oxen. “In Ethiopia, oxen are more in demand than tractors,” said Temesgen,…
Read MoreSeptember 18, 2019
Changing Marketing Strategy Boosts Hydroponics Africa Results
Peter Chege determined early on in his marketing of Hydroponics Africa Limited in Kenya that one size doesn’t fit all when promoting an innovative business to aid farmers to grow crops efficiently. Initially, the agriculture…
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