Agriculture, forestry and fishing

ShEquity Business Accelerator

Criteria & Requirements:

  • Being a woman leading/owning an impactful and scalable business
  • Committing to the 6 months program duration
  • Having an impactful and scalable business that has been in operation for a minimum of 24 months and is based in ECOWAS region
  • Signing the SHEBA agreement (to be provided to these selected)

Sectors Focus

Agribusiness (AgriTech, Production, Processing, Wholesale & Retailing, any other agribusiness value chain aspects), Healthcare, Technology (FinTech

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Invitation for Expressions of Interest in Nutri-Drink Commercialisation

Who can apply?
Any entrepreneur/organisation who;

  • Is motivated to commercialise Nutri-drink
  • Has the resources and motivation to take the products to market
  • Has the relevant industry networks
  • Demonstrated good business acumen and strategy
  • Is willing to invest financially or is able to source funding from both public and private sectors.

Required documents

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COVID-19 Small Industrial Finance Distress Fund

Qulaifying Sectors; 

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Khumo - Orange-fleshed sweet potato variety

Sweet potato is an excellent source of energy, while containing substantial quantities of vitamin C and also contribute B-vitamins and minerals such as magnesium, zinc and iron to the human diet. It provides abundant quantities of provitamin A in the form of beta-carotene. Most of the beta-carotene...

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Nelson Mandela Bay iHub

Nelson Mandela Bay iHub is a business incubator located in Port Elizabeth and Thembalethu, George that supports businesses in ICT. The iHub has a specific focus on technologies that have the potential to disrupt existing value chains and facilitate market access for our incubatees whilst

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Bio-Recycling: Food Waste Beneficiation into Insect Protein for Animal Feed

Nambu has developed an innovative low-cost model of insect protein production that turns food and other organic waste streams into a high-value source of proteins, oils and micronutrients ideal for use in the animal feed sector. 

We have done this by employing a distributed model of business...

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Expression of Interest for Agro-processing Hub in Limpopo

All proposals are to be submitted in the format specified in Appendix C. However, applicants are welcome to submit additional documents over and above the specified format to support their applications, e.g. joint ventures, feasibility studies, business plans, etc.

Evaluation Criteria 

 

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Open Innovation Challenge on Space Applications for Agriculture and Tourism Sectors

The call seeks the best ideas in the downstream application of space technology including, but not limited to, the utilisation of satellite, airborne and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) data as well as value-added datasets to provide daily solutions in these sectors. The target solutions will have undergone calibration and validation stages to ensure they are of the right quality and standard. Standard metadata are a must for all spatial products.

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Uses of Amino Acids and supplements thereof for Abalone Feeds

This invention relates to the use of free L-proline in the preparation of a supplement, and to a supplement so prepared, as well as a method using such a supplement for supplementing the concentration of cellular free L-proline in abalone and for restricting the dehydration of abalone. The...

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Wheat cultivars (Ratel, Steenbok and Tredou)

Currently, the ARC have three commercial cultivars, Ratel, Steenbok and Tredou.  Ratel consists of a medium growth period whereas Steenbok consists of a short growth period with good drought tolerance making it suitable for areas with a dry climate. Tredou is the newest addition to the ARC cultivar...

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