South Africa's transition to a low-carbon, climate-resilient economy will require significant investment, innovative financing mechanisms and strong collaboration across the public and private sectors. As the country advances its climate commitments and Just Energy Transition objectives, mobilising...

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Climate-Smart Drought-Resistant Agriculture Platform

This innovation is a sustainable farming enterprise that combines drought-resistant crops and vegetables, efficient water management, and climate-smart farming techniques to ensure year-round food production despite changing weather patterns and...

Vision

To be a leading climate-smart agricultural enterprise that transforms farming through the production of drought-resistant crops and vegetables, ensuring food security, sustainable livelihoods, and resilient communities in the face of climate change.

Mission

Our mission is to produce and promote high-quality drought-resistant crops and vegetables using innovative, climate-smart farming practices that conserve water, improve soil health, increase productivity, create employment opportunities, and enhance food security while empowering farmers and strengthening community resilience.

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The Nature-First Innovation Lab (NFIL) is a 12-month accelerator programme designed to support African enterprises whose business models generate revenue directly from positive biodiversity, ecosystem restoration, and sustainable natural resource management outcomes.

The programme aims to help nature-first businesses become investment-ready by providing catalytic capital, transaction advisory support, and structured engagement with investors.

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The Agrowex Maturity Assessment (AMA) ecosyste platform is an institutional-grade, bio-fintech de-risking infrastructure designed to transform fragmented African agricultural value chains into structured, bankable, and tradeable 

Agrowex is not a standard enterprise resource planning (ERP) tool, AMA serves as a trust layer that bridges the gap between emerging agribusinesses (smallholder clusters, commercializing farms) and institutional capital (Climate VCs, DFIs, commercial lenders, and global carbon buyers).

​The platform uses a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) framework designed to eliminate

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Applications are now open for the Africa Business Accelerator (ABA) 2026, the flagship growth programme of the Africa SME Assembly designed to help African founders build stronger, more scalable, and investment-ready businesses.

The Africa Business Accelerator was established to address one of the biggest challenges facing African entrepreneurs: the lack of access to the business infrastructure, networks, mentorship, capital readiness support, and market access needed to grow sustainable enterprises.

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Plasmid DNA-based Rescue of Orbiviruses (African Horse Sickness) refers to a reverse genetics approach that enables scientists to generate infectious orbiviruses entirely from cloned DNA. In this system, the segmented RNA genome of the African horse sickness virus (AHSV), a member of the Reoviridae...

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The Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP) has launched its 9th Call for Proposals for Country-led Projects, providing approximately US$163 million in grant financing to support agriculture, food security, and climate resilience initiatives in some of the world’s poorest countries.

The programme supports country-led investments that strengthen:

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develoPPP Ventures is now accepting applications for its 2026 funding round supporting innovative startups with scalable and development-oriented business models across selected African markets.

The initiative is funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and implemented through:

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The Global AgriInno Challenge (GAC) 2026 is now accepting applications from startups, agripreneurs, researchers, and innovation teams developing technology-driven solutions for sustainable and resilient agrifood systems in Small Island Developing States (SIDS).

The international innovation challenge is co-organised by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Zhejiang University, and Pinduoduo.

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