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Microsoft partners with AGRA to support...
Created on Monday, 21 September 2020 17:00
The partnership between Microsoft and Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), enabled through the Microsoft 4Afrika initiative, wi...
Africa Agriculture Status Report focuses on...
Created on Monday, 21 September 2020 17:00
This year’s Africa Agriculture Status Report (AASR) focuses on Feeding Africa’s Cities by assessing the opportunities, challenges and polici...
Covid-19 has exposed private sector investment...
Created on Sunday, 13 September 2020 19:20
The Covid-19 pandemic has destroyed livelihoods and scattered millions of jobs around the world. The International Labor Organization estima...
Helping smallholder farmers get quality seeds...
Created on Wednesday, 02 September 2020 16:44
Most of our smallholder farmers face the challenge of increasing agricultural production in order to improve their incomes and to feed the e...
How the Yield Fund is supporting...
Created on Wednesday, 12 August 2020 14:38
The COVID-19 Business Info Hub reached out to Pearl Capital Partners (PCP) to understand how the Yield Fund, an impact investment fund for a...
PCP BI-ANNUAL NEWSLETTER – JULY 2020...
Created on Monday, 03 August 2020 12:21
Welcome to the third edition of the Pearl Capital Partners (PCP) Bi-Annual Newsletter. We are just past halfway through the year 2020 and ar...
Yield Fund increases BDS subsidy to...
Created on Wednesday, 15 July 2020 05:59
KPMG, a leading professional services organization, continues to work with the European Union (EU) andthe International Fund for Agricultura...
Uganda's Economy needs more support -...
Created on Tuesday, 30 June 2020 05:59
Fitch noted that the domestic political and security environment remains stable, although there is lingering uncertainty around the eventual...
Why it is good to grow...
Created on Tuesday, 30 June 2020 05:56
One of the main reasons why most people hesitate to grow coffee is that it takes a long time to mature and to begin paying. Yet coffee is on...
How to ensure food safety from...
Created on Tuesday, 30 June 2020 05:54
Food safety involves the handling, preparation and storage of food in such a way that it prevents contamination.
Usually, food contaminatio...
How farmers compromise food safety
Created on Thursday, 25 June 2020 09:43
Most farmers don’t consider the source of inputs they use to produce food. For example, a majority use unclean water for irrigation leading ...
JOEL GUMA - MD PRISTINE FOODS...
Created on Saturday, 06 June 2020 09:52
Thinking outside the box with processed eggs
The widening role social impact funds...
Created on Friday, 05 June 2020 07:10
had the pleasure of a timely conversation with Preeth Gowdar, director of the Palladium Group, who has more than 17 years of experience acr...
What a farmer can grow this...
Created on Tuesday, 02 June 2020 18:20
As the rains pound several parts of the country, farmers need to figure out what to grow in this first season.
Among the guidelines farmers...
Use fertiliser to improve yields
Created on Tuesday, 02 June 2020 18:16
In Uganda, like in many other Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) countries, there is very little use of mineral fertiliser compared to other regions o...