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 13, 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 | Sep 12, 2019 | All, Digital Financial Services, Farmer Capability & Smart Farming
Mercy Corps’ AgriFin Accelerate program worked with the Zambia National Commercial Bank (ZANACO), as an innovation partner by developing a farmer-centric product, business modelling, and brokering relevant partnerships to launch AgriPay®, a mobile-based platform that...
by Agrifin | Aug 20, 2019 | All, Digital Financial Services, Farmer Capability & Smart Farming
What are the factors that drive soil testing and subsequent uptake of soil treatment recommendations by smallholders? Read the full report and infographic. Yields and production of smallholder farms in sub-Saharan Africa often fail to meet their full...
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