IFC Announces Winners of the DRC Agribusiness Innovation Challenge to Support Climate-Smart and Inclusive Agriculture

Businesses focused on digital technology and circular agriculture were named the winners of the DRC Agribusiness Innovation Challenge, a startup competition managed by IFC to support agri-small businesses and smallholder farmers as well as the development of climate-smart agriculture in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The three winning companies were selected from a shortlist of 10 businesses that pitched their ideas to a jury of government representatives, members of development organizations, agribusiness investors and venture capital funders in Kinshasa this week, ahead of the DRC Agribusiness Forum taking place…

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