Southern Africa Innovation Highlights: The World Bank’s Live Stream Event Showcasing Top Solutions In Agriculture & Food
Security Risk Financing
The World Bank together with Draper University launches an
open live stream event on the
10th June at 10:00 EST as a part of AG
Innovation Challenges in support
of Agriculture & Food Security Risk Financing in Southern Africa.
Top 6 selected winners along with the representatives of the World Bank
and Government Officials will participate to showcase the top solutions
and innovative practices impacting agriculture
data, weather variables, pests and plant diseases in the most
vulnerable region.
The 3-day ‘shark tank’ event was held at the end of April
2020 and designed to select the top innovators from all over the world.
The Grand Jury of Agriculture
Innovation Challenge initiative of the World Bank highlighted the
winners of each category and awarded honorable mention prizes as raising
stars to three more companies. The diversity and relevance of the
proposed solutions resulted into a growing interest
amongst the public to hear more about the winning teams that have a
potential to make a real impact.
Top agriculture and food security risk financing innovators & speakers at the upcoming event:
Real-time microclimate and crop health
data on two time horizons: driving daily farm operations and providing
insight into seasonal yields.
Building large and smart datasets through innovative ICT-driven data collection techniques, that enables farmers access
to risk and financing instruments.
The system combats the invasion of fall armyworm in sub-Saharan Africa by providing early warning messages based on satellite
technology.
Sailog
(Israel) - Honorable Mention for Accessibility
EsusFarm
(South Africa) - Honorable Mention for Innovative Locally Sustainable Business Model
Injini
(South Africa) - Honorable Mention for Harnessing Social Media
The virtual event will take place on the 10th June at
10:00 EST Time and start with the welcoming speech from Shobha Shetty,
Practice Manager for Agriculture at
The World Bank. For anyone willing to follow the event and participate
in the discussions by asking questions, join the live stream
here.
To support innovators and empower entrepreneurship
innovation, the organizers also launched a special video contest amongst
the winners and participants of the
event to ask the public to vote on the most creative video. The winning
video will be played during the live stream event on the 10th June.
Click here
to watch the 1-minute videos of the winners and vote for the best one.
Press Release Contact:
enaimushina@worldbank.org
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