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Meet The Social Entrepreneur Behind Africa’s “Uber For The Farm”
How do you sell agriculture as a meaningful career for young people? Hello Tractor, founded in 2014, is helping illuminate one path: By cutting down on the labor and the drudgery long associated with farming, they’re making it more attractive and more lucrative for the next generation.
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- Agriculture, Entrepreneurship
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Press release: Tulaa closes seed round of investment
Four out of five African families depend on agriculture for their livelihoods, but lack of access to quality inputs, affordable finance and reliable markets keep many of them trapped in a cycle of poverty. To solve these problems, Tulaa leverages mobile technology and artificial intelligence to enable farmers to purchase inputs on credit and to market their crops efficiently at harvest time.
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- Press release
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- Agriculture
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Looking Past the Buzz: Here’s How to Make Blockchain a Pragmatic Force for Good
Blockchain is often associated with extreme wealth and a disregard for environmental realities, such as electricity use. But Will Szal of Regen Network holds a different view: one that sees the technology's potential to offset carbon emissions and transform the lives of the next billion, particularly the one-fourth of the world's population employed in agriculture. He outlines some ways that blockchain could reach its full potential, for the benefit of the environment and the global poor.
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- Agriculture, Environment, Technology
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Making Agritech Work for Smallholders: What Tech Companies Can Learn from Development Organizations
Agritech proponents argue that technology is the key to helping the world's 500 million smallholder farmers. Yet despite countless ‘ICT for development’ companies and projects, these solutions often fall short of their intended impacts. This raises an important question: Can the methodologies that have proven successful for many tech startups work for the complex, interrelated challenges faced by smallholders? Wouter Vink of GreenFingers argues that there's a better approach.
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- Agriculture, Technology
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Report: India’s Digital Leap to Have Substantial Social Impact – But Data Privacy is a Key Risk
According to the global financial services major, India's digital leap will have substantial social impact across four key areas.
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- Inclusive Fintech, Technology
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- South Asia
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Press release: Monsanto’s Venture Capital Arm Makes First Direct Investment in Brazil
Start-up company that created a platform to digitize the grain buying and selling chain, Grão Direto, receives investments worth R$ 2.3 million from three companies
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- Agriculture, Investing
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- Latin America
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Using big data to link poor farmers to finance
The global growth of microfinance banks has created new opportunities for financial inclusion, with outstanding lending of $100 billion to around 200 million clients. Yet the majority of lending from microfinance institutions has been to urban populations and not to the rural poor or small farmers.
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- Agriculture, Inclusive Fintech
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Gramophone: Farm doctors at your service
The Indore-based startup is leveraging technology to make farming more predictable and profitable for farmers in Madhya Pradesh, India.
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- Agriculture, Entrepreneurship
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- South Asia
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