A three-day African Regional Exchange was held recently, bringing together farmers, bankers, governments, and development partners from across Africa and beyond to discuss ways to provide smallholder farmers with the finance they need to improve and scale up the sustainable forest and farm management practices. The event, organized by the Forest and Farm Facility, aimed to share experiences and lessons on how to overcome the challenges of getting finance to smallholder producers living in remote areas and experiencing some of the worst effects of climate change.
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Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 has had a significant impact on the Black Sea grain deal, which is due to expire on March 18, 2023. The deal was brokered with Russia and Ukraine by the United Nations (UN) and Turkey in July 2022, to combat a global food crisis that was fueled in part by Russia's blockade of Ukraine's Black Sea grain exports.
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Muna Magan is the founder & CEO of Riyan Organic. She speaks to The Somalia Investor Magazine on entrepreneurship, family, and the struggles of running…
Since civil war erupted in 1991, many businesses suffered a natural death, however with peace slowly returning fish traders in the port of Kismayo say…
She had to import the equipment from Sweden and Dubai as none was available locally. When Samira Mohamed Abdirahman left Somalia at the 14 years,…
Somalia’s agricultural sector has been punching below its weight in the past three decades. This is according to The World Bank and the Food and…