by Eugenia Sirengo | May 23, 2022 | All
The Starbucks Foundation and AgriFin engaged Producers Direct, Busara, and other partners to understand how to raise awareness to reduce the impact of COVID-19 0n coffee and tea farmers, while supporting sustainable production and inclusion. >Download the PDF...
by Eugenia Sirengo | Apr 14, 2022 | Digital Financial Services, Women & Youth
Alternative credit scoring methods are gaining traction as a means of reducing barriers to financial inclusion. Social Lender in Nigeria offers digital financial services based on social reputation. We reviewed the effectiveness in predicting borrowers’ ability and...
by Eugenia Sirengo | Mar 29, 2022 | All, Climate, Data & Tech Acceleration, Digital Financial Services, Distribution Channel Logistics, Farmer Capability & Smart Farming, Market Access, News and Events, Women & Youth
AgriFin’s ecosystem approach facilitates the provision of services to farmers through digital solutions, to improve their productivity, incomes, and livelihoods in Nigeria. We engaged our research partner, Dalberg Advisors to provide an understanding of the digital...
by Lilian Nyamongo | Nov 17, 2021 | All, Climate, Data & Tech Acceleration, Digital Financial Services, Distribution Channel Logistics, Farmer Capability & Smart Farming, Market Access, News and Events, Women & Youth
Mercy Corps AgriFin was recently selected as a grantee of Okta’s for Good Innovation Lab, a new program within Okta’s Nonprofit Technology Initiative that provides access to Okta’s products, talent, and cash as part of a single grant. The grant is intended for the...
by Lilian Nyamongo | Nov 15, 2021 | All, News and Events, Women & Youth
>> Download AgriFin’s Gender Transformative Toolkit. Over the past seven years, Mercy Corps AgriFin’ programs have worked across Africa with more than 150 partners to design, test and scale digitally enabled services for the world’s smallholders. With our...
by Lilian Nyamongo | Nov 1, 2021 | All, Climate, Data & Tech Acceleration, Digital Financial Services, Distribution Channel Logistics, Farmer Capability & Smart Farming, Market Access, News and Events, Women & Youth
Mercy Corps AgriFin (MCA) supports the COP26 action agenda through our continuing work to develop scalable, digitally enabled solutions that build climate resilience, food security and inclusion for the world’s smallholder farmers. Two of our key initiatives include...
by Lilian Nyamongo | Sep 28, 2021 | All, Climate, Data & Tech Acceleration, Digital Financial Services, Distribution Channel Logistics, Farmer Capability & Smart Farming, Market Access, News and Events, Women & Youth
Mercy Corps AgriFin collaborated with Dalberg Advisors, Consumers International and World Economic Forum to create a framework for leveraging digital and data innovation with supporting cases from emerging markets. This playbook will explore transparent, inclusive,...
by Lilian Nyamongo | Sep 8, 2021 | Climate, Data & Tech Acceleration, Farmer Capability & Smart Farming
AgriFin has developed a landscape study to understand farmer facing organizations’ needs and potential use cases of climate-smart dashboards, and to assess the extent to which existing dashboard solutions meet these needs. Access: Downloadable Version of this Blog...
by Lilian Nyamongo | Sep 7, 2021 | All, Climate, Data & Tech Acceleration, Digital Financial Services, Distribution Channel Logistics, Farmer Capability & Smart Farming, Market Access, News and Events, Women & Youth
Mercy Corps AgriFin with Busara Center and LocateIT Limited developed a graphical representation of the Evidence Gap Map, dubbed Mapographics collating impact studies and evaluations based on key interventions and outcomes with regards to digital products and...
by Lilian Nyamongo | Aug 25, 2021 | Data & Tech Acceleration, Digital Financial Services, Distribution Channel Logistics, Market Access, Women & Youth
DigiFarm, a Safaricom subsidiary, offers Kenyan smallholder farmers end to end value through their integrated mobile phone platform where they can access information on credit, input and markets. AgriFin has worked with Dalberg and CGAP to document the evolution of...
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