Harvest Money Expo training to focus on value addition.
The two-year lockdown has made many people realise the importance of agriculture, not only to the world’s economy, but also to the individual incomes.
The impact of Climate Change on women in Agriculture in Uganda.
Women make up the majority of the world’s poor and are more reliant on natural resources for a living and this is same locally in Uganda and mostly rural communities. With Climate-related issues, such as prolonged dry seasons and floods becoming more common and threatening agricultural livelihoods and food security, women are more affected due to their critical role as food security enablers.
A response to the business development needs of Agri-Small and Medium Enterprises in Uganda.
Resilience, agility, and adaptation are three important qualities adopted by enterprises over the past two years to support business continuity amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.
Nine agribusiness entrepreneurs to watch in East Africa
How we made it in Africa has interviewed many of the top entrepreneurs – both up-and-coming and established – operating in East Africa’s agribusiness and food industry. Here is a selection of nine businesspeople capitalising on the sector’s potential.
Understanding Impact Performance: Climate Change Mitigation Investments
Comparing and assessing impact performance is critical to increasing the effectiveness of impact investing. Investors around the world are growing their capital allocations toward impact-oriented strategies, deepening their approaches to impact measurement and management, and, anecdotally, becoming progressively better aware of the variety of strategies available to influence impact results. Read More…
Investment’s role in the fight against climate change
As governments, climate experts and campaigners gather at COP26, how are impact investors tackling the defining challenge of our era? Read More…
Venture Capital: Why has it not taken off as financing for SMEs?
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Uganda suffer from lack of finance for their survival and growth. This liquidity emergency, according to Ian Nvula, an expert in capital markets and founder of T.E Markets, has motivated struggling start-ups to find alternative financing sources different from conventional bank lending, writes Nelson Mandela Muhoozi. Read More…
Businesses must look to environmental social governance responsibility.
For most children, their worst nightmare would be losing a parent, a best friend, or their favourite toy. Strangely for me — perhaps because all those were intact — my greatest fear was the world becoming a desert — a hot, dry wasteland. Read More…
Yield Uganda Investment Fund partners with FCA Investments to expand its portfolio in Uganda by investing in a Matugga based meat processing company.
Yield Uganda Investment Fund (Yield Fund) and FCA Investments (FCAI), are pleased to announce a co-investment in Sausage King 3000 Uganda Ltd (Sausage King), a premier meat processor in Uganda. This marks Yield Fund’s eleventh investment into Uganda’s agriculture sector. Read More…
Selling chicken in Uganda: Investor sees gap to formalise the low-income market
The Yield Uganda Investment Fund recently announced an investment of $1.8 million in Sekajja Agro Farms (SAF), a Ugandan poultry business that operates a commercial chicken farm and abattoir as well as a chicken feed manufacturing unit. Jeanette Clark spoke to David Wangolo, investment manager at Pearl Capital Partners – which manages the Yield Uganda…