The technologies showcased here are not yet ready to be scaled but are promising.
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Plant the Right Variety, in the Right Place, at the Right Time. AgWise provides precise, localized guidance on optimal planting dates and suitable varieties. This allows seed producers, agro-dealers, and agri-tech platforms to synchronize input delivery with farmer readiness, improving product performance and reducing seed rejection. Businesses gain higher crop success for their clients, enhance satisfaction, and are positioned as trusted, climate-smart partners.
Farm Smarter, Not Harder AgWise is a digital platform that delivers data-driven solutions for the agri-food supply chain. It provides a variety of services such as a farm management platform, sustainability tracking, climate impact analysis, and AI recommendations for soil and crop management. A significant feature of AgWise is the Specific Fertilizer Recommendations tool. This tool employs data science to offer farmers precise fertilizer recommendations, thereby enhancing crop productivity and managing climate risks. AgWise is committed to promoting improved production practices, sustainability, and transparency in the agricultural sector.
Dry Out the Methane. Green Up Your Harvest. Alternate Wetting and Drying (AWD) is an easy, low-cost water-saving method for growing rice. Instead of keeping the rice field continuously flooded, farmers let the field dry out for several days between irrigations. The timing is guided by a simple field water tube (often bamboo or a PVC pipe) installed in the paddy. When the water level inside this tube drops to 15 cm below the soil surface, it is time to irrigate again. This alternating cycle cuts water use by about 25–30%, and helps reduce methane (a powerful greenhouse gas). By using AWD, farmers save money on irrigation costs (less pumping or water fees) while producing the same amount of rice, making them more resilient to water scarcity.
Building stronger cassava seed businesses for African seed entrepreneurs and farmers. CSAM aims to address these challenges by creating structured associations of cassava seed entrepreneurs, allowing them to collaborate and collectively benefit from economies of scale. Through these associations, entrepreneurs can access certification, financial resources, training, and policy advocacy. This model reduces inefficiencies, enhances seed quality, and strengthens market linkages, promoting a more robust and sustainable seed sector. CSAM has been successfully implemented in Nigeria and Tanzania and is being scaled up in Rwanda and Kenya. With over 2,700 seed entrepreneurs benefiting from this model, CSAM represents a major shift toward a more professional and sustainable cassava seed sector. It offers a platform for both entrepreneurs and investors to engage in an industry poised for growth and improvement.
Low-cost, portable, detect sweet potato viruses—anywhere! The SmartLAMP SPOT offers seed companies, vine multipliers, and agro-service providers a smart, affordable way to guarantee virus-free planting material. With smartphone connectivity, portable operation, and accurate results within 40 minutes, this diagnostic tool reduces quality control costs and improves trust with clients. It's a scalable solution for businesses aiming to expand virus indexing services or integrate health checks into their production systems.
An affordable clean-energy solution that empowers women salt and gari producers to adapt to climate change! The ECO SIKA stove is equipment for salt/gari processing, designed to maximize industrial efficiency and deliver a strong return on investment (ROI). Traditional salt/gari production methods often lose 30–50% of heat energy, but this stove’s design resolves that inefficiency. By reducing fuel consumption, increasing throughput, and minimizing downtime, the stove offers an estimated ROI of 45% per year. Its features are optimized for durability and ease of use, with the goal of increasing stove lifespan and reducing repair costs by up to 40%. The capital investment ranges from $1000 to $2300 USD, depending on the number of fireplaces.
Bio-stimulant for free smallholders' access to biofertilizers to support enhanced plant yields! Lifeworks Global is advancing sustainable agriculture through Lactobacillus Serum and Fish Hydrolysate, organic microbial fertilizers, and plant biostimulants that enhance soil health, nutrient efficiency, and crop productivity. These technologies, rooted in the use of hydrolyzed proteins since the 1970s, leverage amino acid-rich formulas to improve plant growth and resilience to stress. The global adoption of such solutions reflects diverse regulatory classifications: Brazil considers them biofertilizers, Canada views them as supplements, and the USA defines them as biostimulants under the 2018 Farm Bill, highlighting their role in boosting crop quality and yield.
Making Cassava Seed Systems Work Better ME-CASS is a digital platform that tracks cassava seed from breeder to farmer. It improves traceability, monitors seed quality, and supports better planning and coordination across the cassava seed system.
SOP for a productive, high value and market-oriented aquaculture sector. The fish farming industry is growing in Africa and tilapia hatcheries plays an important role to ensure the quality of seed produced. Egypt is the African leading aquaculture producer and the Egyptian tilapia hatcheries supply farms with seed which contribute to national farmed fish production. The existing hatcheries face a number of constraints mostly low production capacities mainly due to poor management of broodstocks, low survival rates of the produced fries/fingerlings, poor growth rates and others all due to non-existence of standard operating procedures that would facilitate improvement of the mentioned constraints. Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) are a set of written instructions that describe step-by-step processes that must be taken to accurately perform routine activities to meets quality standards. The SOPs doesn’t focus on what needs to be done but rather how the routine tasks at the facility should be performed.
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