Resilient and Sustainable Agriculture and Food System in GhanaPears Challenge V: Israel’s DevTech Venture Builder. |
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By 2050 the global population is expected to reach nearly 10 billion, creating unprecedented pressure on food systems worldwide. Did you know that Africa has 60% of the world's uncultivated arable land but lags behind the rest of the world in agricultural productivity? This presents local players and innovators from abroad with an incredible opportunity to close the yield gap with AgriTech solutions. The Pears Challenge is searching for Israeli innovators like you who are interested in tackling global challenges. This year, the program is focusing on Ghana and exploring ways to transform and disrupt agriculture in West Africa. As a fellow, you will be introduced to the Ghanaian market and will get help expediting your process of exploration and field validation. You’ll gain access to industry experts, potential funders, and local partners that will inspire you to develop an AgriTech start-up. Think you have what it takes? |
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Israel Water Week - First Steps in Developing Countries As part of the IWW, we are happy to organise, together with WaterEdge.IL, a panel discussion that will give insights on how to overcome challenges preventing to entering emerging markets. Join us online to be exposed to various channels to engage in those markets! November 30 - 17:00-18:30 IST Register now |
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Women Leading the Green Revolution At the occasion of the applications to the Pears Challenge 2022, together with Yazamiot and UK Tech Hub, we are thrilled to invite you to an in-person event exclusively for women. You will hear outstanding professionals of the industry talking about the transformative power of green technologies in developing countries. Join us in person! December 8th - 18:00 - 19:00 IST Register now |
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Afri-Plastic Challenge AfriLab seeks to fund new innovations that address plastic mismanagement in the marine environment in Sub-Saharan Africa. The Challenge is looking for community-centered products and services to reducing the reliance on plastic and that also supports the empowerment of women and girls. Pitch your idea before December 1st to get a chance to win up to £850,000 to realize your innovation. Learn more |
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The Milken-Motsepe Prize in AgriTech The Milken-Motsepe Prize in AgriTech is a global competition for innovative solutions to increase economic value to farmers, from seed to sale. If you have an idea that would improve yield, reduce loss, and decrease costs for smallholder farmers, register before December 2nd to get a chance to win a $1 million prize and more benefits. Learn more |
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Global Grand Challenges - Neglected Tropical Diseases The Bill&Melinda Gates Foundation is looking for Innovations in Eliminating Neglected Tropical Diseases. Seeking innovative solutions and new applications of existing technologies to address the challenges faced by national programs in mapping, targeting, and surveillance. Apply to get a chance to get up to USD $200,000. Learn more |
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GITA - Calling Early Stage Impact Tech Startup GITA is looking for early stage impact tech startups that would like to engage in a collaborative process with the GITA community with the objective of finding solutions to one specific challenge that is typical for an early stage impact tech startup. The goal is to share the resulting solution(s) for free with other startups in this category. | | |
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Event The Future of AgriTech in Ghana - Pears Challenge 2022 Exposure Event We hosted an online event on November 23rd to discuss the Ghanaian agricultural sector and the opportunities in Ghana for Israeli Agri Technologies. Some key takeaways: there are needs in every part of the agriculture chain in Ghana and technological solutions are being introduced. Some Israeli technologies are doing well in the Ghanaian market and there is more room for new solutions that are need-based, adapted to the market. Thank you Benjamin Gyan-Kesse - KIC, Ayelet Levin Karp - Israel Trade Mission in Ghana, Ahmad Hachemi - MegaConcept, and Celestina Danso Arhin - Bayers. You can watch the recording of the event. |
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TOV Innovation Journey Wrap-Up Event This month, in partnership with JDC, we celebrated the end of the program TOV Innovation Journey with the participants, the partners in Ethiopia, and everyone else involved in the program. It was a good occasion to look back at the concrete outcomes of this program: following extensive exposure to the market conditions, and evaluating their product-market-fit, the participants got an opportunity to offer partnership proposals to the program partners in Ethiopia. Congratulations to the participants who have held more than 15 deep discussions with the Ethiopian partners. We look forward to seeing the discussions materializing in activities on the ground. SupPlant | Chromepay | AgroScout | OKO | PickApp Farming | AgriFriend | Rapid.Farm | AKOLogic | Saillog | Emnotion |
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As Omicron Variant Circles the Globe, African Nations Face Blame and Bans Following the discovery of a coronavirus variant in Botswana, many countries are trying to close their doors to the new variant and have banned travelers from South Africa and nearby countries. It renewed a debate over border closures from the earliest days of the coronavirus pandemic, compounding the problems facing poorly vaccinated countries. It will be devastating for the tourism industry which was hoping to see a rise during their summer. The CEO of the Southern Africa Tourism Services Association reports that “it’s going to be dire for people in rural areas where tourism is the only economic generator.” Closing the borders can only delay the spread of the virus, governments have to take necessary measures in order to reduce community transmission. |
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DevTech Startup Spotlight |
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This month we are spotlighting Gabriel Saunyama, CEO at ChromePay. Based in Israel, he participated in the TOV Innovation Journey 2021. What is ChromePay's story? Chromepay, an inclusive fintech start-up was founded by Gabriel Saunyama and Munashe Zanza, two young Zimbabweans with a drive to impact the African financial ecosystem. They founded the company to promote digital financial inclusion for the millions of Africans today that cannot access financial services for whatever means such as due to the lack of a bank account or the absence of an official National ID. |
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Tell us about the technology? Through our platform, Chromepay is providing a unique digital identity to simplify the verification process in conjunction with an array of financial services available in the Chromepay ecosystem. What is your motivation for doing what you do? As people who have operated in the informal sector before, we have seen how pivotal digital finance can be however many people have been disenfranchised in that they do not have the means to register and verify their identities to use these services. This is particularly prevalent amongst women and it is an issue that needs to be addressed now. Addressing this issue by providing access to digital financial services is what motivates us and drives Chromepay forward. What is your tip to impact entrepreneurs? To all impact entrepreneurs always be willing to take the right advice and learn from others. Ego has no place in entrepreneurship, you need to accept that you don't know everything. That is not to say all advice is good advice, as Bruce Lee stated, "absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely yours". |
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