by Eugenia Sirengo | Nov 9, 2020 | Data & Tech Acceleration, Digital Financial Services
Mercy Corps AgriFin has partnered with GIZ to produce a series of blog posts focused on insights and lessons learned associated with digital platforms for agriculture. This initial post focuses on the core aspect of “matchmaking” between large digital platforms hosted...
by Eugenia Sirengo | Sep 8, 2020 | All, Data & Tech Acceleration, Digital Financial Services, Distribution Channel Logistics
Access the Downloadable Version of this Blog Post and Full-Length Case Study. In 2015, Mercy Corps launched the AgriFin Accelerate (AFA) Programme; a six-year, $24 million project funded by the Mastercard Foundation. AgriFin Accelerate is addressing the inclusion gap...
by Eugenia Sirengo | Sep 8, 2020 | Digital Financial Services, Distribution Channel Logistics
Access the Downloadable Version of this Blog Post and Full-Length Case Study. Smallholder farmers face a myriad of challenges across key components of agricultural value chains, especially in logistics. The COVID-19 pandemic has created large-scale disruptions of...
by Eugenia Sirengo | Aug 28, 2020 | All, Data & Tech Acceleration, Digital Financial Services, Women & Youth
The costs and benefits associated with adopting climate-smart agriculture technologies and practices are distributed unequally among household members. We partnered with EIT Climate – Kic to assess the best way possible through which women can be equitably included in...
by Eugenia Sirengo | Aug 18, 2020 | All, Data & Tech Acceleration, Digital Financial Services
The commercial viability for banks to serve smallholder farmers is highly debated, even though they generate 75% of the Agriculture sector’s $4 trillion annual turnover. From collaborating with ZANACO PLC to build a digital platform for smallholders, we...
by Eugenia Sirengo | Jul 28, 2020 | All, Digital Financial Services, Distribution Channel Logistics, Market Access
FAgriFin 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 60 Decibels and the Precision Agriculture...
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