A major challenge for humanity? The COP21 international climate conference held in 2015 saw, 196 States sign the Paris Agreement, pledging to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and maintain global warming below 2°C by 2050. That goal is ambitious but necessary to ensure our ability to feed a growing population while limiting our impact on the climate. To achieve...
Web applications, software, robots, drones …, digital is spreading at high speed on the continent, improving the technico-economic performance of the agricultural sector. Will Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) enable Africa to lead its Green Revolution? At the farm level Africa shows the lowest agricultural yields in the world. This...
Blockchain is a transparent, immutable and based on trust technology to store and transfer information. It uses the strength of a network rather than the authority of a third party. Dating back from 2009, this technology sees concrete applications in the agricultural and agri-food sector, in search of better economic...
Apexagri was part of the French President Macron official delegation in Nigeria, and signed its first mission there in this occasion. It becomes the 5th African country in which we are operating projects aiming to build performing agricultural business! We will support a private initiative of agricultural development that aims...
Even if agriculture is a priority for Africa’s development, access to financing remains a key constraint for the sector. Access to finance in the agricultural sector is a sensitive subject, since it gets less than 3% of the total bank loans of the continent, while involving 70% of the labor...
The Foundation for World Agriculture and Rurality (FARM) is a French non-profit organization aiming at promoting agricultural development of Southern countries. Its experts deal with agricultural policies, sustainable production systems, financing, water management… FARM organizes every year a one day symposium with international actors in order to address important issues...
The Food and Agriculture Organization has launched the pilot phase of its program “Agriculture Services and Digital Inclusion in Africa” in March 2017 in Dakar. This project aims to provide farmers with supportive information, thus facilitating day-to-day farm management and improving productivity. This first deployment concerns Senegal and Rwanda and...
Wastewater in agriculture: a valuable but risky resource? Due to global warming, many countries such as Egypt, Mexico and the USA are facing water scarcity. In addition to population growth and increasing water demand, food production is expected to grow by 50% in 2050 while 70% of worldwide freshwater withdrawals...
APEXAGRI was present at FARM foundation’s last conference, dealing with agri-food as a source of employment in Africa. Today 60% of the African population is working in the agricultural sector, but is providing food for only 30% of it. As Africa’s demography is expected to double by 2050, the continent...