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The FlipHow We're Helping African Farmers GrowFarming is the number one source of employment in Africa, yet its agricultural productivity is the lowest of any region in the world. The opportunity is immense—60% of the world’s uncultivated arable land is on the continent—but rural communities are suffering from a lack of economic opportunity.So young Africans are building innovative solutions to tackle the problems that are impacting their families and communities.Wissal Ben Moussa is the Co-founder & R&D Officer of Sand To Green, a Moroccan startup pairing regener...2025-02-2512 min
For Food's SakeFFS 038 - The Fuel Empowering Kenyan FarmersThe global fertiliser market is a $200 billion industry. But who does it serve? Produced in large-scale, centralised facilities in developed countries, conventional fertilisers are neither cheap nor reliably accessible for rural smallholder farmers in emerging markets in Africa and India. Safi Organics in Kenya has a vision to decentralise and downsize fertiliser production. Using recycled waste from local farms, carbon-negative organic biochar fertilisers empower farmers by making their farms more resilient with lower costs, higher yields and better soils. We talk to co-founder Samuel Rigu about: His childhood memories of growing up on...2018-11-2340 min