by The Fikiria Desk | Nov 8, 2019 | Farming
It is a fair suspicion, in a country where most livelihoods still come from the land, that a gleaming technology city built in the capital will pass the farmer by entirely. Kigali Innovation City — the mixed-use technology and education cluster that the Government of...
by The Fikiria Desk | Sep 9, 2019 | Farming
Ethiopia’s economy still rests on its farms, yet its farmers have long been the last to see the value their crops create. On 9 September 2019 the government launched a three-year Homegrown Economic Reform Agenda to stabilise the macroeconomy, widen private...
by The Fikiria Desk | Jul 7, 2019 | Farming
Africa feeds itself unevenly, and much of the reason lies not in the field but between the field and the market. A tomato grown in the Rift Valley or a coffee cherry picked on Kilimanjaro’s slopes loses value at every delayed border, every spoiled load, every...
by The Fikiria Desk | Feb 25, 2019 | Farming
The distance between a Ugandan farmer and a data-protection statute looks vast, until you follow the phone in the farmer’s hand. A registration record with an extension service, a mobile-money receipt for inputs, a digital loan scored on call history, a...