January 12, 2020

Meeting Strict SWFF Milestones Was Incentive for Bangladesh Innovator

There was a time five years ago when Nazmul Chowdhury wasn’t at all sure if the Securing Water for Food (SWFF) program the Bangladeshi development expert signed up for was his cup of tea. After all,…

January 11, 2020

The Potato: Enriching the Lives of Sierra Leone Women

Women in Sierra Leone are finding economic salvation and stature through the unlikely emergence of the lowly potato with the help of SkyFox Ltd. and its aquaculture business. But it’s not just any old potato. It’s…

January 10, 2020

Aquaculture Farming in Sierra Leone was Impossible, Until It Wasn’t

Patrick Apoya took a page out of the late South African leader Nelson Mandela’s book when he sought to expand his SkyFox Ltd. aquaculture business to Sierra Leone with a little help from his friends. In…

January 9, 2020

Beach Therapy Leads To Pivoting for Success in Peru

The Peruvian coastline is bathed by Pacific waves all year long. This is good news for surfers and is also good for strategic thinking and solving problems in Peru’s agriculture sector, says German Mori Arbulu. “I…

January 8, 2020

WE4F: A Calculated Gamble

Time moves in an eye blink. It was only 30 years ago that the Hubble Telescope was launched, the US and allies went to war with Iraq in Desert Storm and the world wide web…

January 7, 2020

Evaluator Says SkyFox Successful But Found Some Gender Discrimination

Everything seemed to be going fine as Rahila Yilangai carried out her assignment of evaluating an innovative project sponsored by the global Securing Water for Food (SWFF) program in rural Ghana. She was interviewing the wife…

January 6, 2020

Peter Chege: Hydroponics Africa Expanding to Fit Growing Need

It’s not a stretch to label Peter Chege the equivalent of the legendary Johnny Appleseed of sub-Saharan Africa due to hydroponics installations cropping up wherever he goes. He’s providing nourishment and marketable crops in water-starved regions,…

January 5, 2020

Pivoting to Survive in South Africa: An Unusual Innovation Finds A Way

Business is a bumpy road with twists and turns. No one knows this better than Dr. Muthoni Masinde, who has a proven record of predicting drought in a region where dry conditions cause 70 percent…

January 4, 2020

In Djibouti, the Impossible Takes Just a Little Longer Says Hydroponics Entrepreneur, Peter Chege

There is some controversy around the origin of the term: “The difficult we do immediately. The impossible takes a little longer.” But when it comes to sub-Saharan Africa, Peter Chege owns it. Chege is CEO…

January 3, 2020

Naireeta Services Presents Bhungroo Innovation to the President of India

When the President of India wanted to discover best practices in innovations, his experts scoured the land. It’s not surprising that Naireeta Services’ “bhungroo invention” was front and center. Biplab Ketan Paul, a director of the…