The Rainforest Alliance’s Africa Cocoa Fund (ACF) is a three-year, $5 million fund to support cocoa farmers and help preserve the local landscapes in West and Central Africa. It aims to create measurable, long-lasting positive impact by building the capacity of those certified cocoa farmers who most need assistance to implement our certification standards for sustainable agriculture.
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On-Farm Production (crops, livestock)
The Foundation seeks partnerships with local organizations that are directly engaged with preserving and enhancing the local communities and fisheries.
The Foundation provides grants to directly support priority conservation needs, community projects and educational efforts in important angling communities around the world.
Grant
Tanzania, Seychelles
Deadline: Rolling
Climate Change
Urgent Action Fund-Africa is committed to supporting African feminists and women human rights defenders and their formations to advocate for their active participation and decision making in the governance of natural resources and the orientation and implementation of climate justice policies and practices. Natural resource governance, climate and social justice interact in a circular fashion.
Grant
All Countries
Deadline: Rolling
Food Business
The Conservation, Food and Health Foundation seeks to protect natural resources, improve the production and distribution of food, and promote public health in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East. The foundation helps build the capacity of organizations and coalitions with grants that support research or improve the learning and generation of local solutions to complex problems.
Training
All Countries
Deadline: Rolling
Agri-Food News and Media
The ygap South Africa Accelerator Program helps ventures to refine and validate their business model, move towards financial sustainability, and grow the impact that they are having in their community.
Completing the ygap South Africa Accelerator Program will expand your ability to increase revenue, create employment opportunities, secure further investment, and make a real difference in the communities you operate within.
Training
South Africa
Deadline: Rolling
Food Business
The US $100,000 prize celebrates Africans who are taking control of Africa’s agriculture agenda. It pits a spotlight on bold initiatives and technical innovations that can be replicated across the continent to create a new food security and economic opportunity for all Africans.
Grant
All Countries
Deadline: 17th of June 2023
Climate Change
The current competition is taking place in Ghana, where Idea Foundry has joined with regional implementing partner, Challenges Group Ghana and other local engagement partners. Learn more below about eligibility and how we support entrepreneurial ecosystems globally.
Grant
Ghana
Deadline: Rolling
Others
develoPPP Ventures is aimed at young companies, whose innovative business model improves living conditions in a developing or emerging country and who are planning to scale up. Via a matching-funds model, the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) provides a grant of up to 100,000 euros for suitable growth investments.
Grant
Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria
Deadline: 30th of June 2023
Agri-Food News and Media
Are you a youth agripreneur transforming Africa’s food systems? Tell the world today how you are solving some of the existing challenges in the food value chain, and GoGettaz will consider publishing your outstanding work on the GoGettaz Community platform, e-newsletter, and GoGettaz's different social media channels.
Support
All Countries
Deadline: 31st of May 2023
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Agri-Tech and Digital Services
The WFF Startup Innovation Awards, powered by Extreme Tech Challenge (XTC) are a global startup competition established to support and showcase innovators and entrepreneurs who are harnessing the power of technology to drive the sustainable transformation of agrifood systems in support of ending global hunger and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
Support
All Countries
Deadline: 15th of June 2023
Climate Change
The “Vijana in Kilimobizz” Youth Innovation challenge, launched by the Mastercard Foundation, the World Food Programme (WFP), and E4Impact, is in search of high-impact, youth-led, innovative solutions that seek to create job opportunities for young people and accelerate food system transformation across the entire value chain from production, aggregation, processing, distribution and all the way to consumption.
Support
All Countries
Deadline: 30th of June 2023
Climate Change
CapitaLand provides an opportunity for innovators to work hand in hand to make buildings more climate-resilient and resource-efficientthrough: Open Collaboration between local and global markets, Launch Pilots within CapitaLand’s buildings located across more than 260 cities in over 40 countries, with over S$1 million to cover the cost of piloting all the chosen innovations, Transforming the built environmentby implementing forward-looking solutions.
Support
All Countries
Deadline: 1st of June 2023
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