Agriculture in Africa is a major sector and an important driving force of economic development. It employs between 40 and 65 % of the working population, and makes up around 25 %(1) of the African continent’s GDP. Yet, with 75 %(2) of arable land that is yet unexploited, productivity is having trouble progressing, yields are stagnating, and the income they […]
COVID-19 has exacerbated challenges to Africa’s food and agriculture sector and to its millions of smallholder farmers. At the same time, the pandemic has accelerated innovative efforts to develop and deploy the transformative power of digital technology to address these problems in ways that leapfrog past practices and traditional solutions. Emerging evidence from Asia and Africa suggests that digital […]
By Adil El Youssefi Liquid Intelligent Technologies Kenya’s agriculture sector has grown by 4.8% annually since 2012 with its share of GDP at 33% as of 2016. At the same time, while Kenya’s food deficit has decreased, it remains higher than the sub-Saharan Africa and world averages. With the ambitions of an annual economic growth […]