Tag agricultural value chains

#I’m an Agripreneur: Tanzania is building an Agri-Finance engine. Can Uganda and Kenya keep up?

Tanzania’s agricultural development bank has just published numbers that are hard to ignore. The Tanzania Agricultural Development Bank (TADB) has disbursed Sh1.55 trillion to 862 projects, reaching more than 2.6 million people, and Sh1.32 trillion of that, 84 percent of…

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#Im an Agriprenuer; Uganda’s agricultural future depends on aggregation, not just production

With aggregation, farmers become suppliers. They gain access to larger markets, better market information, improved inputs and stronger bargaining power. Businesses, in turn, gain what they need most: reliable, predictable supply. Modern agricultural markets are no longer built simply on…

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#Im an Agriprenuer; Uganda doesn’t have an agriculture problem. It has a market design problem.

This distinction matters because agriculture does not create prosperity simply by producing more food. It creates prosperity when production is efficiently connected to markets that generate confidence, attract investment and enable businesses to scale. For years, Uganda’s agricultural conversation has…

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Uganda’s Pineapple breakthrough signals the rise of Agro-Industrialisation

Uganda may have quietly crossed an important economic milestone, one that could carry significant implications for the country’s export economy, industrialisation agenda, and agricultural transformation ambitions. In what many observers are describing as a major breakthrough for Uganda’s agro-processing sector,…

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