2Scale Innovation is inviting applications for the Digital Innovation Challenge to Boost Climate-Smart Agriculture in Africa 2020.
Digital technologies such as hyperlocal weather forecasting, mobile finance, supply chain management, and traceability solutions are increasingly transforming agri-food value chains in Africa. They enable farmers and other actors to produce more, better and safer food while preserving natural resources and biodiversity.
2SCALE, one of Africa’s largest agribusiness incubators and accelerators, invites entrepreneurs, startups, and SMEs with digital innovations to apply to our innovation challenge. Together we will scale your innovation in their agribusiness partnerships.
Worth of Award
2Scale Innovation offers:
- Scaling opportunities: They unlock scaling opportunities in one (or more) of the 60 2SCALE partnerships and their 750,000 farmers across eight countries. Your innovation will also be featured on our website.
- Technical support: They provide access to a network of inclusive business and innovation experts for technical support and brokering efforts necessary for the scaling of your innovation.
- Impact research: If needed, they bring in a research team to get insights into the impact of your innovation in our partnerships to share learnings and provide recommendations for improvement.
Eligibility
Apply to their challenge if you match these criteria;
- Low-income focus: Your innovation should primarily focus on smallholder farmers. Focus on other low-income actors such as producers or micro-entrepreneurs is allowed too.
- Value chain impact: Your innovation solves a pressing problem in of our four sectors: Animal Production Related, Staple crops, Soy and Oil Seeds, and Fresh Produce.
- Digital technology: Your innovation is built around using digital technology to benefit the smallholder farmer value chain. See examples in the challenge brief.
- Country fit: You plan to implement your innovation in one of the 2SCALE countries: Kenya, Ethiopia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Mali, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Niger.
- Innovation maturity: Your innovation is not new to the market and you have already been generating revenue from it for at least one year.
- Finance: You bring at least half of the budget required to finance the implementation of your innovation in 2SCALE. See what we might fund in the challenge brief.
How to Apply
To apply;
- Download and fill out their application form and submit it by email before the deadline. The application is easy and takes less than an hour.
- Answer the different questions on the form and save the form with your name and company in the title of the file.
- Send us the form via email to [email protected]
Deadline: Application closes November 15, 2019.