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Prize-winning projects promote healthier eating, smarter crop investments
June 28, 2018 Editor 0
The winners of this year’s Rabobank-MIT Food and Agribusiness Innovation Prize were a team from Harvard University that’s bringing healthier meal options to low-income communities and an MIT team that’s crowdsourcing and crunching crop-price data for smarter investing. EatWell, a team of students from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and outside experts, won […]
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A regional enterprise to commercialize an integrated technology for waste water treatment and biowaste conversion in eastern Africa
May 27, 2018 Editor 0
Preamble In the wake of urbanization and rapidly expanding agro-process businesses [such as slaughterhouses, tanneries, breweries, and others], environmental pollution, increased greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs), and contamination of water sources due to inadequate waste management have become the norm. There is generally little awareness on the environmental and socio-economic consequences of polluting the environment, since […]
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Dr Peggy Oti-Boateng
May 27, 2018 Editor 0
Dr Oti-Boateng is the Senior Programme Specialist for Science and Technology and serves as the Coordinator for the African Network of scientific and Technological Institutions (ANSTI) in the UNESCO Multi-Sectoral Regional Office in Harare, Zimbabwe. Dr. Oti-Boateng has over 32 years working experience in teaching, research, and development of technologies for sustainable development and STI […]
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Africa RISING farming technologies reach 60,000 households in Ethiopia
May 27, 2018 Editor 0
The Africa RISING project in the Ethiopian highlands has reached over 60,000 beneficiaries in the first year of the project’s second phase. In a recent interview with the Ethiopian Herald newspaper, Kindu Mekonnen, senior scientist with the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and the project’s coordinator in Ethiopia, said that the project has reached more than […]
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East African dairy farmers earning more from market linkages to milk processors
May 27, 2018 Editor 0
Staff of Kinyogoga Dairy Farmers’ Cooperative Society in Uganda pour milk into a cooler. This is one of several milk chilling plants set up under the EADD project (photo credit: EADD). The demand for high-value food items such as meat and dairy products is on the rise in East Africa. However, productivity-enhancing services such as […]
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Business incubation a means for effective business development
April 24, 2018 Editor 0
BioInnovate Africa Programme organised a Business Incubation Model Development Workshop from 26 – 28 February, 2018, in Nairobi, Kenya. The workshop was for the BioInnovate Africa Programme Category 2 business incubation project teams, to strengthen their capacity for professional business incubation as one of the routes to commercialize their innovative biological-based technologies and/or products. The […]
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