Does your company have a Great Business Idea that will help transform the way in which clean energy is generated and provided to people, especially those who have no access to electricity, in East Africa?
Authored by: Namanga Ngongi and Hugh Scott
The Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund (AECF), which invests in businesses wishing to implement commercially viable and high development impact projects in Africa, is launching three new competitions to spur business innovation and investment in: agribusiness development across Sub-Saharan Africa; renewable energy and adaptation to help small farmers [...]
Increased aid from biotechnology needed in the next 2 decades to tap the genetic potential of seed banks
COPENHAGEN, DENMARK (OCTOBER 2011)—Responding to appeals from African leaders for new tools to deal with the effects of climate change on food production, the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security [...]
An unusual collaboration is developing a cheaper, safer, oral drug to combat sleeping sickness.
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A new programme that provides grants to bioscientists working to improve food production and environmental management in eastern Africa was launched Wednesday at the Nairobi headquarters of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI).
The newly established Bioresources Innovation Network for Eastern Africa Development (Bio-Innovate) Programme—the first of its kind in Africa—provides competitive grants to African [...]
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