Uganda, April 24 -- For Iganachi Razaki Omia, the math was simple and brutal. In war-scarred Northern Uganda, a tomato left in the sun for two days is a tomato lost. For the 90,000 smallholders his company serves, that meant income lost, food wasted, and another season of scraping by. Six hundred miles east in Kenya, Denis Karema watched the same story play out in reverse: farmers with fresh produce, but no cold room to keep it, no buyer who would wait, and no bank that would lend. This is why the UN Capital Development Fund and Bayer Foundation have come to their rescue. Early this week the two organisations announced the first deals from their new Food Systems Innovation Finance Facility, putting Shs1.8 billion each into Omia...
Click here to read full article from source
To read the full article or to get the complete feed from this publication, please
Contact Us.