As a keen badminton player Ugandan Catherine Nakalembe wanted to study sport science at university but a failure to get the required grades for a government grant set her on a path that led her to Nasa and winning a prestigious food research prize, writes the BBC's Patience Atuhaire. When
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A groundbreaking study launched on November 30, 2020, by Factor[e] Ventures, supported by the Rockefeller Foundation and the Windward Fund, finds that the lack of robust energy services in Africa’s agriculture sector is a fundamental obstacle to the sector’s growth. Agriculture and agribusiness together are projected to be a US$
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A worker picks up leaves from cannabis plants inside a greenhouse of Medigrow, a Lesotho-Canadian company that grows legal cannabis, located near Marakabei, in Lesotho on August 6, 2019. PHOTO | GUILLEM SARTORIO | AFP Rwanda has approved the cultivation and export of cannabis even as the use of the
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Samantha Niyonsaba and CK Japheth, The Innovation Village Team Lead at a meeting The Innovation Village, through its EdTech Lab in partnership with Mastercard Foundation Young Africa Works and the Arizona State University Education for Humanity, has launched a business development programme dubbed ‘Future of Education’, a challenge with the
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Nalongo Jayne Kalumba who last week won the race to represent Maddu Town Council for the post of Mayor has vowed to use her experience to develop the area. Nalongo beat Vincent Mugenyi despite violence and intimidation unleashed on her. Kalumba is a renown Ugandan-Canadian looking forward to development Maddu
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The COVID-19 pandemic has adversely affected the global and local economy. A number of people are feeling pressure in their pockets during to the lockdown but the post lockdown future looks bleaker. For farmers and people who are passionate about agribusiness, this is the time to think about crops that
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Pixan Inc, a Ugandan high-end technology, content production and distribution company, and Bold Cashers Limited, the developers of Cash Chat, a Ugandan digital and social network mobile application, Tuesday launched the COVID-19 Quarantine Time Mobile App Innovations Challenge. The two tech companies are using the Challenge to facilitate technologically innovative
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In the face of an unprecedented challenge, the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), with the support of the World Health Organization (WHO), calls on innovators and entrepreneurs to put forward new solutions to help the tourism sector recover from COVID-19. With millions of jobs at risk as the pandemic hits tourism
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Many small -scale farmers especially women have for so long not felt the impact of the East African Community (EAC) integration that brings together six countries on their livelihood. The problem has been blamed on the poor information flow related to availability markets for agricultural produce and the economic opportunities
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Today, the Anzisha Prize–Africa’s premier award and fellowship for Africa’s youngest entrepreneurs (AnzishaPrize.org) – is excited to announce that the 2020 call for applications is now open. Every year, the prize celebrates 20 African entrepreneurs, aged 22 years and younger, each of whom have a chance to win a shared
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