DIV provides grant funding based on a tiered-evidence approach that maximizes impact per dollar spent. This allows for risk at early stages and mitigates risk at later stages, ensuring that funding is targeted to the most impactful and cost-effective innovations. 

The Global Innovation Fund is supporting the development of innovative approaches to solving challenges for people living at the last mile in any sector in any developing country and any type of organisation may apply. This includes social enterprises, for-profit companies, non-profit organisations, government agencies, international organisations, and research institutions in any country.

Innovation 4 Agriculture is a  fund that promotes innovation in agriculture. It operates within 5 topic areas: Mechanization, Digitalization, Energy, Agricultural Research, Private Sector, with a fund duration of 01/2021 – 09/2026. Does your innovation fit the i4Ag portfolio? Apply today to make a change!

The Call for Proposals aims to competitively identify eight (8) innovation research projects in Responsible AI for Climate Action in Africa.

Funding for this Call for Proposals comes from the Artificial Intelligence for Development-Africa (AI4D) programme, a joint initiative funded by Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA).

The Missing Middle Initiative (MMI) responds to an urgent need for additional program support to farmers' organizations, producer organizations, and small and medium enterprises and, as such, piloted ways to provide these specific entities with funding and capacity building to test out their ideas and projects.

Applicants can be individual youth above the age of 15 years and below the age of 35 years; a youth-led entity (defined as any entity, in which at least 50% of current management/leadership is below age of 35); or a youth-focused entity (defined as any entity, in which at least 90% of resources serve youth above 15 and below 35 years of age).

The Africa Agri-Food Development Programme (AADP) supports and enables Irish companies to realise their ambition of doing business in Africa.

Innovative startups from Africa are encouraged to take the leap and create solutions for the future. Katapult’s Africa Accelerator Program will recruit the best companies and provide them with the tools, network and financial support for success.

The accelerator program is aimed at ocean and climate startups working in food, transport, energy, natural assets, infrastructure and new frontiers.  We will invest €150k - €500k upfront and invite you to our 3-month tailor-made accelerator program.
 

Tiny Beam Fund offers communication grants to researchers who wish to “address negative impacts of global industrial food animal production” (especially in low- and middle-income countries). Communication Grants are aimed at encouraging academics who have studied the problems caused by global industrial animal agriculture to take steps to share their research