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Business models and key success drivers of Agtech startups

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Interested in agech in West Africa? Discover details about business and policy issues young digital agriculture start-ups are facing, their key success drivers and how they are trying to achieve success in this new CTA publication.

The publication is an abridged version of a report that I co-authored with a colleague that CTA published.

It is an interpretative phenomenological research that focuses on youth-led companies offering digital services to the agro-food sector in West Africa. Youth is considered as

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Caribbean farmers could be going digital

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NB: Article that I published in Scitech Europa

Guest writer, Ken Lohento, is the Senior ICT for Agriculture Programme Coordinator at the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation ACP-EU (CTA). The CTA was established under the Lomé Convention between the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States and EU member states. Lohento, explains how blockchain could unlock new markets for Caribbean farmers.

Blockchain might be best-known for disrupting the financial sector, thanks to Bitcoin and more recently, Facebook’s Libra.

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Pitch AgriHack booste le développement des start-up agricoles, Fenou Packaging du Bénin, un exemple

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Sonita Tossou, CEO Fenou Food et Fenou Packaging

L’édition 2018 de Pitch AgriHack, a révélé la start-up béninoise Fenou Packaging, parmi les lauréats. Elle propose des emballages alimentaires 100 % biodégradables, via une plateforme de vente en ligne. Un an après la remise des prix à Kigali, au Rwanda, en quoi a consisté l’accompagnement du CTA ?

Pour rappel en 2016, Sonita Tossou fonde Fenou Foods, une entreprise spécialisée dans la transformation alimentaire. Très vite, la jeune femme constate un fort engouement de la part des consommateurs non

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When young Africans hack the farming sector

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Finalists of Pitch AgriHack 2018 organised by CTA - Credit photo: CTA

The article below, published by the organisation CTA in 2019, was not written by me, but present results of some activities I led at CTA.

The AgriHack Talent initiative is one of the CTA’s best-known projects, particularly through its AgriHack Pitch start-up support programme. We take a look back on this initiative, which, over the course of just a few years, has succeeded in bringing together agriculture, entrepreneurship and new technologies.

Kigali, Rwanda, November 2013. On

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Ken Lohento

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Bienvenue sur mon mon site personel "Perspectives", à travers lequel je partage mes perspectives sur le développement au Bénin et en Afrique, surtout sur la question de la digitalisation, et en particulier dans le secteur agricole. Vous trouverez ici des documents, billets, ou informations que je rédige ou signale depuis 1997. Mes propres écrits sont dans la section "Mes contributions". J'ai plus de 20 ans d'expérience internationale en matière de politiques et usages du numérique pour le développement, en particulier dans le domaine de l'e-agriculture et de l'entrepreneuriat digital. Un commentaire, une question? N'hésitez pas à me contacter.