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26 February 2019. Hello Tractor and the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation ACP-EU have announced a partnership to increase smallholder farmers' access to mechanisation services and youth employment opportunities. The partnership will enable Hello Tractor to expand its services across Nigeria and Kenya to connect 5,000 smallholder farmers to mechanisation services, as well as to create jobs for youth as tractor operators and booking agents. Hello Tractor connects tractor owners to farmers through an Internet-of-Things (IoT)-enabled digital solution that bridges the gap between manual and mechanised farming. The service enables farmers to request affordable tractor services, while providing enhanced security to tractor owners through remote asset tracking and virtual monitoring. Through technology, the company is creating sustainable business opportunities for compact tractor owners, while ensuring smallholder farmers have affordable and convenient access to...

28-30 November 2018 . Bangkok, Thailand.  The IFPRI-FAO Global Event: Accelerating the end of hunger. Having won the Scaling-Up Nutrition (SUN) agri-pitch competition at the  first Nutrition Investors Forum in Nairobi, Kenya   (16-18 October 2018), two Nigerian SME's represented Africa at the IFPRI-FAO meeting in Bangkok, Thailand. Over 450 SMEs from across Africa applied for the SUN Pitch competition and through rigorous selection processes at various levels, 21 top businesses qualified as finalists, five of which were NutriPitch entrepreneurs from Nigeria , namely: Veggie Victory, Hakeem Jimo Soupah Kitchen, Ifeoluwa Olatayo Augustsecrets, Oluwatoyin Onigbanjo Prothrive, Oluyemisi Obe Kennie-O Cold Chain Logistics, Ope Olanrewaju.  Other countries represented at the final competition are Ethiopia, Tanzania, Kenya, Malawi, Zambia and Mozambique. The award which included specialised technical assistance worth $15,000 to be provided at country level and in Switzerlan...