Agriculture

AgDevCo is inviting applications for its 2026 Agribusiness Financing Opportunity, providing long-term debt and equity investment support to scalable agribusinesses operating across sub-Saharan Africa.

The financing initiative is designed to support commercially viable agricultural enterprises that are driving food systems transformation, improving rural livelihoods, strengthening agricultural value chains, and creating sustainable economic impact across the continent.

The World Food Prize Foundation is calling for nominations for the 2026 Norman Borlaug Award for Field Research and Application, endowed by The Rockefeller Foundation.

The award recognises exceptional, science-based achievements in international agriculture and food production by individuals under the age of 40 who are actively working to address global hunger, poverty, food security, nutrition, and sustainable agricultural development.

About the Due Diligence Fund

The Due Diligence Fund (DDF) is implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), as part of the Sustainable Agricultural Supply Chains Initiative (SASI). Now in its fifth round, the DDF has already supported 30 projects across four previous rounds since 2022.

FCI4Africa — Fair food and trade systems for Africa through food convergence innovation is a Horizon Europe-funded project responding to the growing demand for sustainable, fair, and just food trade between Africa and Europe.

Opportunity Type: Expression of Interest / Market Access Programme

Application Deadline: 6 April 2026

Eligible Region: Africa

Number of SMEs Selected: 30 Agribusiness SMEs

Overview

The AfCFTA African Agribusiness SME Matchmaking Program 2026 is inviting export-ready agribusiness SMEs across Africa to apply for a market access and business growth support programme.

Applications are now open for the 2026 FINCA Ventures Prize Competition and the CLIC Agrifood Investment Connector Program, two complementary opportunities designed to support impact-driven enterprises operating in financial inclusion and sustainable agriculture and food systems across Sub-Saharan Africa.

The Moonshots for Development (M4D) Open Innovation Challenge is now open for growth-stage enterprises developing innovative solutions to support smallholder farmers, rural communities, and indigenous populations.

This global initiative is powered by leading international organisations including:

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has launched a call for applications for AgriTech startups to join the timbuktoo Pan-African Incubation Network, anchored at the timbuktoo AgriTech Hub in Ghana.

The Raising Adaptation Impact and Ambition (RAIA) project is inviting proposals for country-level research on the economics of climate change adaptation in Africa.

RAIA is a UK Aid-funded initiative under the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO)’s Climate Adaptation and Resilience (CLARE) Programme. The project is led by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in partnership with the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) Africa.