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“Connect the unconnected” is the motto of Brastorne Enterprises, a company which, in simple terms, “makes dumb phones smart” across rural Botswana using USSD technology.
Three tech innovators are to share a US$1.5 million prize to scale up their innovations and permit smallholder farmers to increase efficiency, resilience and incomes amid a historic food stuff crisis, the award organizers say.
Three African youth-led Agritech businesses— Kenya’s DigiCow, Botswana’s Brastorne Enterprises and Nigeria’s ThriveAgric— will receive mentorship and $1.5 million in grants to help them to aggressively expand solutions to long-standing challenges faced by smallholder farmers across the continent.
Three African agri-tech startups, ThriveAgric of Nigeria, Kenya’s DigiCow and Botswana-based Brastorne Enterprises, have been named winners of the AYuTe Africa Challenge, securing shares of USD 1.5 M in grant funding and access to expert advisors.
Heifer International has announced the 2022 winners of the AYuTe Africa Challenge that supports agritech innovators.. They are ThriveAgric of Nigeria, Kenya’s DigicCow and Botwana-based Brastorne Enterprises.
Heifer International announced today the 2022 winners of the AYuTe Africa Challenge that supports agritech innovators: ThriveAgric of Nigeria, Kenya’s DigicCow and Botwana-based Brastorne Enterprises.
Heifer International announced today the 2022 winners of the AYuTe Africa Challenge that supports agritech innovators: ThriveAgric of Nigeria, Kenya’s DigicCow and Botwana-based Brastorne Enterprises.
Heifer International announced today the 2022 winners of the AYuTe Africa Challenge that supports agritech innovators: ThriveAgric of Nigeria, Kenya’s DigicCow and Botwana-based Brastorne Enterprises.
Brastorne partnered with Orange Cameroon, through its long-standing relationship with Orange mobile group, which includes Orange Botswana, Orange DRC, as well as Orange France.
Solve is an initiative of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States of America with a mission to solve world challenges.
CTA in collaboration with the ACP Secretariat, the European Commission, TradeCom II, the Panafrican Farmers Organisation (PAFO) and Women in Business Development Incorporated (WIBDI), organized a lab debate on ‘’Going Digital: Sustainable development in agriculture for women: supporting women’s access to ICTs for agriculture and promoting’’
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