July 18, 2016
MIT researchers design a solar-powered desalination device for rural India. The air was hot and gritty. Shehazvi had to squint to see past the sun into the edge of town, past the cars and motorcycles…
Read MoreJuly 17, 2016
SWFF Seeks Journalism/Writer Virtual Interns
The Securing Water for Food: A Grand Challenge for Development and the SWFF Technical Assistance Facility, a hybrid incubator-accelerator serving 28 innovators in more than 30 countries, wants you as our Fall 2016 Virtual Intern…
Read MoreJuly 15, 2016
Ag Innovation Investment Summit – 26 Things We Learned
In early June, USAID and its partners hosted the first Ag Innovation Investment Summit to connect investors with innovators at the food-water-energy nexus and to accelerate game-changing technologies that can help smallholder farmers improve their…
Read MoreJuly 15, 2016
SWAR for Transforming Irrigation System
The Hyderabad-based Centre for Environment Concerns (CEC), a non-governmental organisation, has come out with what it claims as a unique irrigation technology called System of Water for Agriculture Rejuvenation (SWAR),...
Read MoreJuly 13, 2016
Mobile App for Rain Forecasts Raising Farmers’ Yields
NAIROBI- A mobile, phone-based innovation that can predict rain is helping farmers in six Sub-Saharan African countries sow, fertilise and harvest crops at the optimum time. The innovation is being used in Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana,…
Read MoreJuly 8, 2016
Success Story: How Reel Gardening Went From an Idea to a Successful Business
At 16 years old, Claire Reid was determined to start a garden, but the process was more difficult than she anticipated. She had to buy seeds and fertilizer in industrial quantities, and she had no…
Read MoreJune 30, 2016
Hydro-Powered Pump Offers Eco-Friendly Irrigation Solution
The company behind an innovative hydro-powered irrigation pump has recently installed its first system in Spain, and now has its eyes on the Latin American market. The Barsha pump, developed by Netherlands-based aQysta, is a…
Read MoreJune 20, 2016
How Rain Forecasting Via Text Can Help Farmers In The Developing World
There are lots of types of data that Ignitia, a weather forecasting startup, could have focused on. But, after talking with farmers in West Africa, it realized only one question really matters to its customers:…
Read MoreJune 17, 2016
Undergraduate seniors or graduate students with a background in water, ag, tech innovation or business, would you like to be part of solving some of the world’s greatest challenges for development? USAID is now recruiting…
Read MoreJune 10, 2016
Ignitia Wins Second Place in the AIIS Pitch Competition
Washington, D.C. – Last week, 24 Securing Water for Food innovators participated in USAID’s first-ever Agriculture Innovation Investment Summit (AIIS) with colleagues from Powering Agriculture and Feed the Future. The Summit, designed to help bridge connections…
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