The incubator cohort betting on climate-adaptive agriculture
Twelve ventures, one constraint: growing food that survives the new weather.
Twelve ventures joined this year's climate-adaptive agriculture cohort. One constraint unites them: produce food that survives a hotter, drier, more erratic season.
The pitches
The pitches range from drought-tolerant seed to sensor-led irrigation that pays for itself in a single season. The throughline is pragmatism, not spectacle.
"We are not solving climate. We are helping a farmer not lose the whole harvest when the rain comes late."
Why this matters
Agriculture employs roughly 60% of Africa's workforce. Climate change is not a future risk — it is a current yield drag. The ventures in this cohort are building for the weather that is coming, not the weather that was.
We will follow their progress through the season. The first checkpoint is the next rains.
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