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Research briefs, analysis, and field intelligence on African agriculture, climate finance, and the systems of a just transition updated by the Kilimora team.

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Closing the Verification Gap
Award
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
FEATURED
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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AFS Forum 2026 Communique
Food Systems
27 Sep 2026 23 min read
AFS Forum 2026 Communique
When the AFS Forum 2026 gathered in Kigali under President Paul Kagame’s leadership, it was marking 20 years of a...
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Global AgriInno Challenge Part II: Behind the Gold
Award
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
Award
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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After the bV Global Summit 2026
Fellowship
12 Jun 2026 10 min read
After the bV Global Summit 2026
What the Global Summit in Stuttgart delivered in May 2026, who was in the room, and how Godfrey’s move from...
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Muthiga’s Fruit Tree Day in Numbers
Climate
29 Mar 2026 7 min read
Muthiga’s Fruit Tree Day in Numbers
Kiambu sits at the heart of the Nairobi Metropolitan food system, where growing towns, shifting rains and smaller plots shape...
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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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