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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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Closing the Verification Gap
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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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From Hangzhou to Murang’a: Taking China’s Agri Technology to East Africa
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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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AgriKonnekt at the ACEP Future of Energy Conference 2026
Energy
09 Oct 2026 12 min read
AgriKonnekt at the ACEP Future of Energy Conference 2026
AgriKonnekt presented as a finalist in the Innovation Challenge in the ACEP Future of Energy 2026 conference and how Kilimora...
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Global AgriInno Challenge Part II: Behind the Gold
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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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Global AgriInno Challenge Part I: Gold in Hangzhou
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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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Gathiru Research III: Sunlight, Water and the Policy Gap
Research
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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The Debt Under the Harvest
Finance
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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The Silence Tax
Gender
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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Closing the Gender Gap in Farming
Gender
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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