by admin | Feb 3, 2016 | All, Data & Tech Acceleration, Digital Financial Services, Farmer Capability & Smart Farming
AgriFin Accelerate is a program implemented by Mercy Corps and supported by the MasterCard Foundation and aims to increase access to digital financial and informational services for one million farmers in Kenya, Tanzania, and Zambia over the next six years. The...
by admin | Feb 2, 2016 | All, Farmer Capability & Smart Farming
Like most small-holder farmers in his area, Jeremiah Njoroge, seen above, actively seeks out useful and relevant information to support his farming enterprise. Radio happens to be the top source of this information for him. “I listen to Inooro’s ‘Sauti ya Mkulima’...
by admin | Oct 2, 2015 | All, Data & Tech Acceleration, Digital Financial Services
Mobile Money aka MoMo was conceived in 2007 in Kenya. Earlier close relatives in East Africa and distant relatives in Asia, such as Smart Money in the Philippines, had begun their life trek a few years earlier, but few have grown to colossal heights as the Kenyan...
by admin | Oct 1, 2015 | All, Data & Tech Acceleration, Digital Financial Services
Digital technology can be a powerful tool to reach smallholders with information, market linkages, and financial services with extremely low costs at a sufficient scale. A recent McKinsey study estimates that mobile and internet technology can drive up to $3 billion...
by admin | Sep 30, 2015 | All, Data & Tech Acceleration, Digital Financial Services, Market Access
When Ichagi youth group was formed in 2011, one of the early decisions the group made was to open a bank account where they could hold proceeds from their members’ contributions and from product sales. “This was an important step because we did not want to be like...
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