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    New Paper: Toward a New Model for African Agriculture: The Subscription Model of Farming in Uganda

    July 12, 2023
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    For the better part of of the last decade, I’ve been building something. Perhaps I should have been writing more about it while I was building but sometimes you get so much into the weeds (pun intended) that Twitter becomes an easy escape rather than the introspective exercise of long-form writing. Recently, I was invited by a colleague at Tufts University to write about my work at Raintree Farms. It took three…

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  • Launching a Ugandan Beauty Brand from Scratch During a Global Pandemic

    February 7, 2022 Agriculture Entrepreneurship investment Raintree Farms

    The story of how Qwezi Beauty came to be…

  • Hiking the Rwenzori Mountain Range

    January 22, 2022 Climate Change photography Tourism

    Nothing like a refreshing vacation in the mountains to clear your mind and get you enthusiastic about starting off the year. Collectively, we’ve been through hell and back the last two years. I’ve mostly been in…

  • Kuli Kuli Featured Raintree Farms for Earth Month Collaboration

    April 30, 2020 Agriculture news

    If you’re in the US and are health conscious, you probably have heard about Kuli Kuli. They are a California-based moringa products company and have been the biggest promoters of the benefits of moringa in North…

  • Yield Uganda Investment Fund invests in Raintree Farms, an innovative agri-ceutical concept

    June 27, 2019 Agriculture Appearances news Raintree Farms

    The Yield Uganda Investment Fund is proud to announce its fifth investment in Uganda by making a commitment to invest UGX 3.9Bn to Raintree Farms Limited, a pioneering agri-ceutical enterprise specialising in the production and processing of organic moringa.…

  • The fog of entrepreneurship

    May 21, 2019 photography

    I’ve been at Raintree for a few weeks now. The start of the new harvest season in April is always chaotic. I’ve taken to waking up earlier than anyone else lately. Not because I have something…

  • How Uganda’s agricultural sector is coping with climate change

    April 25, 2019 Agriculture Climate Change Economy Raintree Farms Video

    I joined CNBC Africa host Makeda on her Power Lunch program to discuss the on-going drought and how it’s affecting the region. The delayed rains put quit the damper on the start of our production year.…

  • Serena Williams’ “secret” venture capital portfolio includes one of Africa’s best-known startups

    April 23, 2019 investment technology

    Alongside Andela, Serena Ventures has also backed Coinbase, the San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange, Masterclass, the online learning platform and Wave, a remittance service that’s available in five African countries. I’ve been a user of Wave’s brilliantly…

  • The Cognitive Dissonance over Jumia’s German Identity

    April 23, 2019 technology

    It’s been a week since Rocket Internet’s Jumia debuted on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). The stock (so far) has been met with the type bullish exuberance only Wall Street can muster, sending the stock…

  • Tiny Spark: What Can We Do About The White Savior Complex?

    April 20, 2019 Appearances International Development

    My second appearance on the Tiny Spark podcast is probably my favorite, only because I only found out after the episode was published that the entire episode was full of some of my favorite people. I…

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