With the challenge of ensuring
food security for a growing population
while preserving natural resources, Agriculture is called upon to adopt Precision Agriculture as an efficient tool to tackle this challenge. Precision Agriculture is based on the use of new technologies such as Robotics, Remote Sensing, Internet of Things... as well as the power of data science and Artificial Intelligence, in order to improve the yield while rationalizing the use of inputs, therefore protecting natural resources and contributing in the sustainability of agriculture.AgriEdge
, being an active actor developingPrecision Agriculture
solutions fitting the local African context, wishes to make of Precision Agriculture an attractive hub of novel ideas through encouraging new energies and supporting innovators to develop solutions that meet the challenges of small farmers and agricultural cooperatives.Through our new pole
Digital Agriculture Innovation Lab
and alongsideour partners
, we are launching a support program for innovative projects in the field of Digital Agriculture under the labelFilaha Innovation Program
, with the aim of helping young project leaders to transform their project ideas into Startups. This program is an opportunity to create a hub for exchanging experiences and knowledge accumulated byAgriEdge
through our experience and the know-how of the experts we invite every year to theAgri Analytics Days
.Our aim is to make
Filaha Innovation program
an opportunity for sharing this knowledge with the various actors involved in the fields of agriculture and technology to develop solutions serving the African agricultural ecosystem, and lead to the creation of new innovative startups in the field of digital agriculture.Submission summary
Thanks to the
131
teams who applied from23 African countries
Topics |
Submissions |
|---|---|
| E-COMMERCE |
36 |
| KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER |
26 |
| DATA SCIENCE |
20 |
| IOT & REMOTE SENSING |
18 |
| COOPERATIVE 2.0 |
17 |
| ROBOTICS AND AI |
14 |
The results will be posted here on july 20th
result
Team name |
Country |
|---|---|
Agrodots |
Zambia
|
Agripoa |
Tanzania
|
Agritech sensor |
Cote d'Ivoire
|
AIV Crowdfunding |
morocco
|
Aqua-Eng |
Egypt
|
BILANGA SOLUTIONS |
Democratic Republic of the Congo
|
Digi-Agro |
South Africa
|
Digital Journalism |
Kenya
|
Dynamic AgriLink Investment Club |
Uganda
|
ENV619 |
Tunisia
|
Ethiopia AgriTech Solutions |
Ethiopia
|
Farm Manager |
Benin
|
FarmSecure |
Nigeria
|
honeybee |
morocco
|
KyDa Empire Co. Ltd |
Cameroon
|
Organo Credit |
Kenya
|
Pulsar Solutions |
Cameroon
|
Shamba Nexus |
Kenya
|
Facing the African agriculture
Challenges.
The support program
is composed of two main phases,
a theoretical and technical section to develop the projects
ideas,
and an applicative and business-oriented section to guarantee their market access.
Part 1 : Technical Coaching
In order to ensure the reliability and feasibility of their project and improve its technical aspects, this mentoring is delivered by experts in agriculture and new technologies from the program’s partners and designed to be adapted to each team according to their project scope. This 1st phase of coaching will last a month and a half.
Part 2 : Business Coaching
It consists of a 3-month
learning by doing experience
where the three selected teams will be connected with their solution’s end-user, enabling them to implement the solution they designed during the 1st phase of coaching for their client (farmers, cooperative,organization, etc.). It includes also coaching sessions to help the teams develop the financial and commercial aspects of their product and create their own startup.Planning
Date |
Phase |
Teams |
|---|---|---|
|
May 25th – June 30th , 2020 |
Applications |
-- |
|
July 1st – 20th , 2020 |
Preselection |
18 |
|
July 27th – December 1st ,2020 |
Acceleration Phase 1 : Technical Coaching |
18 |
|
December 1st , 2020 |
Presentations & qualification announcement |
18 |
|
December 1st – February 1st , 2021 |
Acceleration Phase 2 : Business Coaching and PoC development for a client |
3 |
|
February 4th , 2021 |
Final presentation and winner announcement |
3 |
|
Support to create a startup based on the developed product |
1 |
Who can participate ?
Filaha Innovation Program is open for applicants from
all African countries
, whether they are undergraduate students, PhD Students or young researchers, holding a project idea they want to transform into a Startup.Single or Team applications (with a maximum of 5 members per team) are both possible.
Prizes
The 3 winners who qualified from the first phase of coaching will benefit from 3 months of close support during which they will be
Supervised by domain experts
Supported for the creation of their own Startup.
Trained to develop the commercial aspects of their product to facilitate their market penetration
Connected with an end user to confront their project to field conditions through a funded POC
The best rated project team will benefit from the full coverage of the expenses of their participation in an international AgriTech event .
