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Trends Toward A Circular Agriculture In Kenya

7May

By Karin BoomsmaNo Comments

African News, Agriculture, Kenya News, Main

Trends Toward A Circular Agriculture In Kenya

Circular agriculture is termed a food system that is in harmony with nature and meets social needs simultaneously. With the growing population in Kenya, the food supply has been in high demand and this has come at the expense of the environment. Farmers have shifted to using more intensive farm chemicals causing land erosion and poor quality of the soil. The question now is, are we ready to adopt circular agriculture as a country? Are there conversations driving the country towards Circular agriculture? Noticeable trends show that the country is ready or is already shifting to a circular economy. This article highlights 11 trends being adopted, which have been showcased in the recently published report on ‘The Netherlands and Kenya Moving Toward Circular Agriculture in Kenya’. The report...

Data security and privacy laws develop across Africa

3May

By Africa BusinessNo Comments

Ghana News, Kenya News, Madagascar News, Main, Mauritius News, Nigeria News, Rwanda News, South Africa News, Togo News, Uganda News, Zimbabwe News

Data security and privacy laws develop across Africa

Numerous countries in Africa have developed or implemented data privacy and security laws in their countries in the last few years. With the rapid rise in digitisation as a result of the pandemic, the broad implementation of such laws across the continent has never been more urgent. Countries including Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Togo, Uganda and Zimbabwe have been implementing new measures to protect and secure the personal information of their citizens. In Ghana, data protection is regulated under the Data Protection Act, 2012 (DPA) together with Article 18(2) of the 1992 Constitution, which provides citizens with a fundamental right to privacy. Enid Baaba Dadzie, Senior Associate at Kimathi & Partners in Ghana, says that because data protect...

Jiji Kenya Announces Momentum Led By Doubling its Traffic and No. of Ads

15Apr

By Africa BusinessNo Comments

Business, Kenya News

Jiji Kenya Announces Momentum Led By Doubling its Traffic and No. of Ads

Jiji, the largest online marketplace in Kenya, announced on 13th April tremendous company growth led by doubling its year-over-year performance. Jiji Kenya penetrated the market in 2020 when there were over ten online platforms in the market. It has since become the fastest growing e-commerce with over 6 million users and 2 million ads in Kenya. In March 2022, Alexa, a website traffic analytics platform, ranked it as the leading platform among all, having 2.5million unique visitors monthly, compared to 1.5 million in 2021. When Jiji Kenya set up shop in 2020, there was an outbreak of coronavirus pandemic, hence it witnessed increased activities on the platform as many small and medium-sized enterprises turned online to reach more consumers due to movement restrictions imposed to contain ...

Tushop Raises $3M to Scale Community Group-Buying in Kenya

31Mar

By Africa BusinessNo Comments

Kenya News, Startups

Tushop Raises $3M to Scale Community Group-Buying in Kenya

Tushop, the Kenyan social-commerce platform that enables communities in Nairobi to buy groceries more cheaply with free delivery, has secured $3M in a pre-seed funding round, led by 4DX Ventures and with participation from JAM Fund, Breyer Capital, Chandaria Capital, TO Ventures, Golden Palm Investments, FirstCheck Africa, and DFS Lab. Wasoko (formerly Sokowatch) also joined to make their first strategic institutional investment into Tushop, signalling confidence in the team’s ability to capture the community group-buying opportunity in Africa. The oversubscribed round included additional participation from a number of angel investors including GB (CEO, Flutterwave), Raja Kaul (President, Sundial Group), Eli Pollak (CEO, Apollo Agriculture), and Ida Mannoh (Director of Growth, Chipper Cash...

2Mar

By Africa BusinessNo Comments

Energy, Kenya News, Startups, Zimbabwe News

Announcing Winners of the 9th Edition of the Sankalp Africa Summit Awards 2022

Over 2,000 delegates is convening for the Sankalp Africa Summit, a hybrid 3 Day Virtual and a 1 Day In-Person event on ‘Mainstreaming Impact’ Sankalp Forum, an initiative of Intellecap, is hosting its 9th Edition of the Sankalp Africa Summit, one of Africa’s largest inclusive networking platforms focussed on entrepreneurship and the impact investing ecosystem, in a hybrid format, from the 1st to 4th March 2021. This year, the Sankalp Africa Awards 2022 winner is Zuri Health a healthcare startup from Kenya. Zuri Health brings to its customers, an innovative virtual hospital that allows patients to talk to a doctor, purchase medication from a pharmacy, schedule lab and diagnostic testing, and have a doctor come to their home. So far, they have clocked impressive numbers with over 20,000 do...

16Dec

By Africa BusinessNo Comments

African News, Kenya News

Jiji Kenya Wins as the Mobile App of the Year| Shopping and E-commerce in the Mobile App and Summit Awards, 2021

Jiji, one of the most popular e-commerce sites in Kenya and the largest online classifieds in Kenya, has scooped the Mobile App of the Year, Shopping and E-commerce category. The award was presented to Jiji Kenya during the Mobile App and Summit Awards, 2021, which was held at the PrideInn, Westlands, on Friday, 10th December 2021. The Annual Mobile App Summit and Awards recognize and celebrate the best practises in mobile app design, animation, and user experience across a range of categories, including and not limited to news, entertainment, shopping and e-commerce, agri-tech, travel, health and lifestyle, education, games, social and communications, transport and logistics, gambling, food, and beverage. Jiji Kenya has continually set itself as a leader in the e-commerce industry thro...

3Dec

By Africa BusinessNo Comments

Energy, Green Energy, Kenya News

A Just Transition to Climate Resilience Could Transform Kenya into a Green Powerhouse

The Continent Is Highly Vulnerable to Climate Change, However, and Needs Significant Global Investment to Adapt to Higher Temperatures, Build Low-Carbon Economies, and Create Local Green Employment African countries face major climate-related challenges, but at the same time they have the opportunity to achieve sustainable low-carbon economies, according to a new report by Boston Consulting Group (BCG). The report, titled “Building a Climate-Resilient, Low-Carbon, Job-Rich Africa,” identifies particular disadvantages that countries on the continent must overcome but also their potential to become a model for transforming a power system based on fossil fuels to one based on renewables. Although Africa was responsible for only 4% of global CO2 emissions in 2019, it accounts for 35 of the 5...

12Nov

By Josephine WawiraNo Comments

Kenya News

Messing with nature is risky business!

For a long time now, economy and the conservation of biodiversity seemed to be two different worlds. Not many CEOs or financial managers were able to explain how their company’s impact contributed to the loss of species, deforestation or the acidification of oceans. But times have changed. Today, trailblazing entrepreneurs understand that they don’t have to be biologists to recognize the correlation between nature and the economy. In simple terms; on a dead planet, there would be no thriving business. Biodiversity is on the verge of collapse The more we know about nature, the clearer it dawns to us that messing with nature is risky business. Take these instances: We cut down trees to make wood products for sale. In turn, deforestation destroys our essential ecosystem services; and we...

9Nov

By Krima DesaiNo Comments

Kenya News

Kenya Still Faces Challenges in Sending 100% of Students to High School

Kenya has long aimed to bring 100 percent of its primary students to high school. Over one million Kenyan students finished their primary school education in 2020, and all are expected to attend high school, but many factors continue to hold these students back. Many Kenyan parents are unable to pay for the school fees and many students must travel long distances just to get to their schools. The government has helped solve some of these challenges through partnerships with private sector businesses for education funding and eradicating poverty by empowering local communities. Many tuition fees are also waived for secondary schools. But parents still must pay for meals, transportation, uniforms and other things necessary for learning, and many Kenyan communities still have cultural tra...

8Nov

By Joseph MainaNo Comments

Agriculture, Burkina Faso News, Kenya News

GMOs have lessened pesticide poisoning and improved yields in Africa, says report

A report by a top caucus of experts in the United Kingdom shows that many countries have benefited from improved economies and healthier populations by farming genetically modified (GM) crops. Most significantly, the low pesticide use associated with GM farming is linked to fewer incidences of pesticide poisoning among farmworkers—particularly for small-scale farmers, observes the Report on Genetic Technologies released in September by the UK’s Regulatory Horizons Council. In India, for instance, the report cites a 50-70% reduction in pesticide applications on insect-resistant cotton, which has led to significant health benefits for farmers. “It has been estimated that this GM crop helps to avoid several million cases of pesticide poisoning per year,” the report noted. “There have als...