by admin | Nov 4, 2016 | All, Digital Financial Services, Farmer Capability & Smart Farming
“We have always done it this way,” is the answer we received from a young poultry farmer in Athi River, a small town outside Kenya’s capital Nairobi when we asked her why her chicken coop was a particular height. Further discussion around farming methods revealed she...
by admin | Nov 4, 2016 | All, Farmer Capability & Smart Farming, Market Access
Potatoes are the second most important crop in Kenya, after maize. They are grown by approximately 800,000 farmers, 98% of whom are smallholders and are mostly women. Smallholders grow on less than 1 hectare and produce 83% of the countries production, according to...
by admin | Nov 4, 2016 | All, Data & Tech Acceleration, Digital Financial Services, Market Access
Most entrepreneurs will tell you that apart from luck and financing, the right timing for launching a product is the final spice that makes the meal rewarding. While catching up on my tech reading I stumbled on a book authored by Porter Erisman on the rise of Alibaba,...
by admin | Mar 14, 2016 | All, Data & Tech Acceleration, Digital Financial Services, Distribution Channel Logistics, Market Access
Finding viable solutions to deliver financial and non-financial digital services to Kenyan smallholder farmers may sometimes feel comparable to discovering the lost city of Atlantis. Both pursuits, led by explorers enamored with fulfilling activities, often conclude...
by admin | Mar 14, 2016 | All, Digital Financial Services, Market Access
fAn agricultural market system includes the full range of products, services, and relationships such as access to finance, inputs, information, formal and informal rules, policies and logistics, buyers, and so on. These products and services work together more or less...
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