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Using the internet and mobile phones, farmers in East Africa learn to work more efficiently with the traders who buy their goods. The Linking Local Learners method of learning explores how farmers can access market information and get a fairer deal...[continue...
NaijaCar reports on the Innoson automotive initiative.
Nubia Estates offers private residence owners' Club.
Food crisis a boom for small farmers?
More on the opportunity in Africa's frontier markets.
Using oil palm crops to heal Lake Victoria
Burundian Ashura Kisesa, wins a young entrepreneur...
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Meridian Medical Services fashions itself as the "One stop" medical centre.
Kahindo Mateene a fashion designer "sews together tradition and trend"
SMS based Livestock Marketing Information System launched for farmers and traders.
Combination Industries serves up cheese snacks.
African minerals strengthens its social...
A Sierra Eye video outlines the various agro-allied opportunities in Sierra Leone:
via Cheetah...
"...Burkinakarité is a union of women associations dedicated to shea butter production and commercialization.The union is made up of 4 villages association. Our local head office is in Bobo Dioulasso in Burkina Faso .Burkinakarité sells raw shea butter produced traditionally by the women of the...
"...Rivers Vegetable Oil Company a Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) manufacturing company is the largest producer of edible grade Palm Kernel Oil in country..."Its product offerings include:
-Food
-Home care
-Personal Hygiene
-Personal...
The FT reports on Nubuke Investments founded by Tutu Agyare founder of the Nubuke Foundation:
The multi-strategy fund will trade currencies, government bonds and commodities, as well as equities and special situations investments such as private equity, bank loans and distressed debt...Mr Agyare said Africa was in the midst of a long-term economic revival and pointed out it had 15 per cent of...
Ghana Nuts"...processes 18,000 metric tons of sheanuts,over 20,000 metric tons of soya beans...and more than 5,000 metric tons of groundnuts...",Modern Ghana.Its value-added products include the AKOMA Soya Bean Oil...
Aliko Dangote founder of the Dangote Group covered earlier makes the Forbes List:
Nigeria's first billionaire hit the jackpot when his sugar-production company listed on the Nigerian stock exchange last year. Meanwhile, proposed initial public offerings of his flour and cement companies have stalled. Began career as trader at 21 with loan from his uncle; built his Dangote Group into conglomerate...
"Liberating Africa's True Resource Potential" is the tagline of Constelor Resources a diversified Pan African Mining company founded by Paulo Gomes co-founder of AFIG Funds covered earlier.The company's aim is "...to maximize African ownership and participation in the benefits of developing the Continents vast mineral...
Founded by Anna Temu "...Power Food Industries Limited is an Agro-processing and agriculture commodity supply company dealing with processing of less developed cereal flours meant for breakfast and stuff porridges such as finger millet, sorghum, soybean, cassava, sweet potatoes and it also process maize...
Ivoiretorrefaction manufactures the " JAG L’ELEPHANT " brand of coffees. Its product range includes:
-Mixed Robusta Arabica
-Pure Robusta
-Pure...
Spore reports:
Farmers in Ghana are producing biodiesel from palm kernel oil, to power their farm vehicles and generators. In an initiative launched by local producers association Dumpong Pineapple Growers Cooperative with the help of the US-Ghana NGO Dumpong Biofuels, farmers have learned how to assemble a simple processor. It uses a process called transesterification to convert palm kernel oil...
CGIAR reports :
A glucose syrup factory using cassava as its major raw material has commenced production in Nigeria. Built at a cost of N2.5 billion by Ekha Agro Nig. Ltd., a private sector initiative, in partnership with the International Starch Institute (ISI) in Denmark and several Nigerian banks, the company will produce 100 tons of glucose syrup daily.
“It will initially produce 30,000 tons...
The FT reports:
Persuaded that the continent's dominant economies are turning a corner, funds listed on London's Aim, mutual funds, private equity funds and hedge funds are pouring in.
Last week it was Johannesburg-based Pamodzi Investment Holdings that made waves when it announced the launch of a $1.3bn pan-African private equity fund backed by US investors.
Since the start of the year, more...
Mark Cecil from the Private Equity Hub reports that:
Pan-African growth equity firm Emerging Capital Partners (covered earlier) scored a pair of lucrative exits in the two months, the most recent being the sale of Societe Internationale de Plantations D’Heveas, a rubber maker with operations in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
ECP, a Washington D.C.-based LBO and growth capital firm, made a $14.8...
Founded by Andrew Rugasira "...Good African Coffee produces four different, single origin, roast and ground coffees and one 100% Arabica freeze dried coffee…Our coffees are bought direct from our network of farmers at premium prices and specially roasted and packed under stringent quality...
Asante Farms an integrated agricultural group produces: Sweet Valencia Oranges, Palm Oil, Cassava, Plantain, various breeds of free range Chicken, Turkey, Guinea Fowl and...
Spore reports on the potential of the Tropical Fruit market:
In the past decade, world production of tropical fruits has increased by almost 50%, reaching an estimated 66.9 million tonnes in 2002, according to data from the Tropical Fruits Network. About 98% is in developing countries, the most notable increases being with mango, papaya and avocado. Mangoes account for 38% of all tropical fruit...
PeopleandPlanet reports on the adoption of Coconut Oil as a renewable fuel:
Its advantages include:
* Lower emissions and toxic fumes than petroleum diesel fuel
* Smoother running and reduced engine knock
* Availability to the producer in remote areas to run machinery and generate electricity when the roads are cut off in the wet or prices are too high
* The oil is a sustainable......
Blue Skies "...processes fresh chilled pineapple, mangoes, watermelon, passion fruit and papaya for export. Blue Skies' products are certified to meet the EUREPGAP protocol for quality practices...",FAO.The company "...is now responsible for 30% of the country's Pineapple exports and around 1% of her total exports. We have provided a market place for growers of pineapple, papaya and coconut and...