Farmers
AgricTech Agro-tech

Helping Smallholder Farmers Secure Malawi’s Food Future

Malawi’s farmers fear El Nino because it always brings drought, withering heat, and poor crop performance. Poor crop performance means

Twiga Foods
Leadership

Peter Njonjo of Twiga Foods Quits Board After Resigning as CEO

Twiga Foods, founder and CEO Peter Njonjo has quit the firm’s board a month after he resigned as its chief

Jumia
Ecommerce

Jumia Shuts Down Jumia Food

Jumia, the African ecommerce platform, will shut down Jumia Food, its digital food delivery arm, at the end of December

AgricTech Funding Investment Venture Capital

BII Commits $26.5m to AFEX to Address Food Security in Nigeria, Kenya and Uganda

British International Investment (BII), the UK’s development finance institution (DFI) and impact investor, announced a US$26.5 million commitment to AFEX,

ThriveAgric
AgricTech

ThriveAgric Supports 500,000 Smallholder Farmers to Boost Food Production in Africa

ThriveAgric, an agritech company in Nigeria, has today released its 2022 Impact Report reiterating its mission to build the largest

Bolt Food
Business

Bolt Food Increases Presence in Lagos

Bolt Food has announced its expansion into inner cities in Lagos enlarging its coverage in the state and delivering on

Stable Foods
AgricTech Agro-tech Funding

Kenya’s Stable Foods Secures $600000 From Global Investors

Stable Foods, a Kenyan agtech startup building ultra-low-cost food production systems within smallholder farmer communities, has raised a US$600,000 round

Kune Food
Marketplace Startup

Kenyan On-demand Food Marketplace, Kune Shuts Down

Kune Food, a Kenya on-demand food marketplace, has shut down after less than a year of operations. This was announced

Twiga Foods
AgricTech

Twiga Foods to Invest $10m in New Commercial Subsidiary Dubbed Twiga Fresh

Twiga Foods, the Kenya B2B agritech startup, has announced plans invest $10 million in a Twiga Fresh, a new subsidiary

The Food Lab
Funding Investment Venture Capital

The Food Lab, Egypt’s Cloud Kitchen Startup, Secures Pre-seed Round of $4.5m

The Food Lab (TFL), Egypt’s first cloud kitchen services operator, has closed a $4.5m pre-seed funding round co-led by Nuwa