by Muthoni Mugo | Jul 28, 2020 | Digital Financial Services, Distribution Channel Logistics, Market Access
AgriFin is excited to publish recent findings of a study we commissioned on the impacts of COVID-19 on agro-dealers in Kenya. The study findings are complemented by findings in other research pieces conducted by our partners. View the full report here, with a summary...
by Muthoni Mugo | May 15, 2020 | All, Data & Tech Acceleration, Digital Financial Services, Distribution Channel Logistics, Farmer Capability & Smart Farming, Market Access, Women & Youth
In 2015, Mercy Corps launched the AgriFin Accelerate (AFA) Programme; a six-year, $24 million project funded by the Mastercard Foundation. AFA had the goal of reaching one million farmers with digital financial services across Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia, whose...
by Muthoni Mugo | Apr 17, 2020 | All, Data & Tech Acceleration, Digital Financial Services, Distribution Channel Logistics, Farmer Capability & Smart Farming, Market Access, News and Features
While official programming in Oxford for the Skoll World Forum was cancelled this year, public events that surround the Forum went virtual. AgriFin coordinated and hosted a successful online webinar, “Scaling Climate Smart Agriculture: Tech, Wins, Fails,...
by Agrifin | Feb 19, 2020 | All, Data & Tech Acceleration, Digital Financial Services, Distribution Channel Logistics, Farmer Capability & Smart Farming, Market Access
For more than five years, AgriFin Accelerate has supported the design and expansion of digitally enabled financial and information services for smallholder farmers in the region (Tanzania, Kenya and Zambia). The program has worked with a number of financial service...
by Agrifin | Dec 20, 2019 | All, Data & Tech Acceleration, Digital Financial Services
Can Cryptocurrencies Bring Smallholder Farmers into Formal Financial Systems? This is Part One of our 3-part blog series, exploring the ways in which Libra could be deployed to smallholder farmers and what benefits that may bring them. Unless you have been hiding...
by Agrifin | Oct 7, 2019 | All, Data & Tech Acceleration, Digital Financial Services, Farmer Capability & Smart Farming
AFA assessed data spanning two years of the DigiFarm and FtMA pilots, surveying 152 DigiFarm farmers in Bomet and Meru, as well as 185 FtMA farmers in Tharaka Nithi. We then leverage the lessons from both input loan pilots and an internal review of DigiFarm loan data...
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