2 African agribusiness challenges are now accepting applications.
The Innovate UK KTN Global Alliance Africa Global Alliance Innovation Exchange (iX) challenge is assisting a large agri-based manufacturing company in Kenya in identifying innovative solutions to two significant and immediate challenges that they face.
Global Alliance Innovation Exchange is a KTN program of Innovate UK that was created to assist UK and international organizations in their search for game-changing solutions to innovation challenges. KTN has run over 130 innovation challenges around the world, including five in Africa.
Two East African challenges are now open, and the winning applicants will each receive up to GBP25,000 (US$30,000) seed funding to collaborate with the challenge holder on developing a solution for these specific challenges.
The first challenge is to find new ways to prevent crop damage caused by migrating birds. The second goal is to find low-cost, easy-to-maintain solutions for sorghum grain threshing. Both will be closed on July 8.
