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Three Steps to Jumpstart Mobile Finance: Step 1 – Researching smallholders’ financial behavior to help them transition to mobile payments
It’s becoming increasingly clear that cash payment schemes are obsolete in the 21st century, says Lee Babcock. And in agriculture, there’s a growing recognition that enabling digital payments to smallholders is a huge opportunity, both for farmers and the mobile finance sector. In this three-part series, Babcock lays out three steps for embedding mobile money into agriculture development at the BoP.
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- Agriculture
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U.S. wants Nigeria to take economic leadership in Africa
The United States government has expressed the expectation of Nigeria to lead the African continent into economic advancement.
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- Agriculture
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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The Caterpillar Foundation Announces $11 Million in Investments for Africa’s Future Through Water, Energy and Women
Foundation's focus on corporate social innovation helps put people on the path to prosperity
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- Agriculture, Energy, Environment, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Chocolate at Risk?: Why sustainable finance is crucial to ensuring a steady cocoa supply for the world’s chocolate industry
Smallholder cocoa farmers in Côte d’Ivoire produce 40 percent of the world cocoa supply. Yet the vast majority still live in poverty due to declining productivity, and in the absence of long-term financing opportunities, many have been changing to other crops. Rainforest Alliance’s Helen Roy describes how socially-minded investors are mobilizing capital to help these farmers revive their land.
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- Agriculture, Environment
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In Uganda, Leveraging Public-Private Partnerships for Food Security
Failures in the Ugandan market deter farmers from adopting best practices for harvesting and handling, which in turn floods the market with low-quality crops for raw materials. Clinton Wong, a volunteer consultant for TechnoServe, helped lead an initiative to map the food sector in Uganda as part of the Solutions for African Food Enterprises (SAFE) program.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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5 ways to deliver nutrition through cash crop standards
Nutrition security is an essential part of improving farmer livelihoods.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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Rwanda: Why Farmers Are Loyal to Micro-Finance Institutions
Rwandans have hailed the role of micro-finance institutions just as Kigali is hosting a global financial inclusion summit starting today.
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- Agriculture
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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A Supply Chain Overhaul To Boost Coffee Farmers’ Income 400%
This is about a social enterprise on a mission to reinvent the coffee supply chain, giving farmers a bigger and more equitable piece of the action.
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- Agriculture
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