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Closing the Verification Gap

Kilimora won the Second UNCTAD Supply Chain Innovation Challenge with Cooperative Edge. This brief sets the...

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Award Closing the Verification Gap
16 Oct 2026 11 min read
Closing the Verification Gap
Kilimora won the Second UNCTAD Supply Chain Innovation Challenge with Cooperative Edge. This brief sets the win against the research...
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FEATURED From Hangzhou to Murang’a: Taking China’s Agri Technology to East Africa
14 Oct 2026 14 min read
From Hangzhou to Murang’a: Taking China’s Agri Technology to East Africa
Xinhua featured Kilimora’s AgriKonnekt, the project that won gold at the Global AgriInno Challenge 2026 in Hangzhou, and the Chinese...
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Award Global AgriInno Challenge Part II: Behind the Gold
17 Sep 2026 28 min read
Global AgriInno Challenge Part II: Behind the Gold
Climate finance, smallholders, land, supply chains, energy and four trade doors (China, the US under AGOA, the EU and the...
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Award Global AgriInno Challenge Part I: Gold in Hangzhou
15 Sep 2026 9 min read
Global AgriInno Challenge Part I: Gold in Hangzhou
Kilimora's AgriKonnekt won the Gold Award at the FAO backed Global AgriInno Challenge 2026. This brief covers the competition, the...
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Research Gathiru Research III: Sunlight, Water and the Policy Gap
07 Jan 2026 13 min read
Gathiru Research III: Sunlight, Water and the Policy Gap
Part III of the Kilimora research foundation series. A Kenyan field trial put Obunga slum well water in the sun...
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Finance The Debt Under the Harvest
07 Dec 2025 8 min read
The Debt Under the Harvest
Developing countries paid $741 billion more to creditors than they received in new money between 2022 and 2024. Here is...
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Gender The Silence Tax
04 Dec 2025 7 min read
The Silence Tax
Asking a woman about violence the wrong way can erase the evidence that guides policy. New work from Pakistan shows...
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Gender Closing the Gender Gap in Farming
03 Dec 2025 9 min read
Closing the Gender Gap in Farming
A recent Open House from the Partnership for Economic Inclusion put one question on the table: what does it take...
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Supply Chain The Connected Harvest
03 Dec 2025 5 min read
The Connected Harvest
For decades African farms grew food in one place, stored it in another and sold it in a third. Now...
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