Switch Bioworks, a biotechnology company developing low-cost and sustainable fertilizers, has announced that it raised US$17 million in Series Seed financing led by Change Forces Capital and joined by Grantham Foundation, Astanor Ventures, Acre Venture Partners, Anthos Capital, Thia Ventures,...

Africa’s decline in soil fertility worsens each year, and crop yields are consequently plummeting, particularly for smallholder farmers whose survival is pegged on small pieces of land averaging half a hectare. Though many factors cause this degenerating soil health, acidification has emerged as...

Unfortunately, the agriculture and food authorities have neither established nor well-publicized these limits. Owing to a lack of awareness and proper guidance, the farming community — a majority of them illiterate or poorly literate — is unable to conform to the global standards on this issue....