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#26: African AgriTech - Early opportunities for technology to scale Agriculture across Africa artwork

#26: African AgriTech - Early opportunities for technology to scale Agriculture across Africa

Afrobility: Africa Tech and Business
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Overview: Today, we discuss the opportunity for Agriculture technology to make a difference in Africa. We'll start with some context of African Agriculture, discuss AgriTech in developed and emerging markets, analyze Agritech players across Africa & end with our overall outlook. This episode was recorded on Apr 4, 2021. Companies discussed: Twiga Foods, Pula, SunCulture, Releaf, FarmCrowdy, DeHaat, Arya, WeFarm, Aerobiotics, Gro Intelligence, SwiftVee, Agroop, Pure Harvest, Naspers & Agrocenta Business concepts discussed: Agriculture technology (AgTech, AgriTech or AgroTech), Agribusiness marketplaces, farming financing, Farmer market access opportunities & Agriculture insurance strategy Conversation highlights: (00:30) - Why we’re talking about Agriculture & AgriTech (05:20) - AgriTech in developed markets (08:50) - AgriTech in emerging markets countries (11:30) - AgriTech startups in India - DeHaat, Arya (15:30) - AgriTech in China (16:50) - African Agriculture - background, challenges (26:50) - AgriTech in Africa (28:06) - AgriTech startups in East Africa (40:40) - AgriTech startups in Southern Africa (45:55) - AgriTech startups in Northern Africa (48:44) - AgriTech startups in West Africa (58:20) - Bankole’s overall thoughts and outlook (1:07:55) - Olumide’s overall thoughts and outlook (1:14:35) - Recommendations and small wins Olumide’s recommendations, small wins & open questions: Recommendations: Skip the Line (James Altucher) & Green Book (2018) Small win: Day off work to re-energize Other content: Employment in agriculture (% of total employment) (World Bank) & US Agricultural workers data in 1900 (11M out of 76M population) Bankole’s recommendations, small wins & open questions: Recommendation: Readwise.io Small win: Set up wiretamers for my WFH space. The Art of the Desk Setup Other content: Planet Money Episode 454: The Lollipop War & Blues Wireless We’d love to hear from you. Please email info@afrobility.com to share feedback or propose topics you’d like to hear. Join our insider mailing list where we get feedback on new episodes & find all episodes at Afrobility.com

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