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UN Study: Digitization of Kenyan Farmer Payments Helps Tackle Poverty
One Acre Fund, supported by Citi, enabled farmers to easily make loan repayments via mobile money instead of cash, reducing the uncertainty, inefficiency, insecurity and high costs previously caused by cash transactions.
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- Agriculture, Financial Inclusion, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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How Digitizing Agricultural Input Payments in Rural Kenya is Tackling Poverty: The Case of One Acre Fund
Since 2014, OAF has enabled farmers in Kenya to make loan repayments digitally using the mobile money service M-Pesa instead of in cash, increasing economic opportunity and financial inclusion in some of the world’s poorest farming communities.
- Categories
- Agriculture, Financial Inclusion, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Smallholder farmers in Kenya in the race against climate change
For years, the farmers’ efforts in small-scale agriculture produced little meaningful return. But this did not stop the community from having a collective vision for their prosperity: They wanted to improve their living standards, educate their children, engage in farming as a business and add value to cash crops to increase their income. What they lacked was the knowledge to make this happen.
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- Agriculture, Environment
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Cambodian Government Launches $60 Million Project to Help Small Farmers
“The supply and demand in the country is not balanced—like with vegetables, so there are imports to fill the demand,” Commerce Minister Pan Sorasak said at the event yesterday at the Commerce Ministry in Phnom Penh. “We need to understand and organize a system to boost the harvests of these crops.”
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- Agriculture
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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Hatching A Generation of Eggpreneurs In Rural Kenya
While Gates was in Lower Manhattan recently talking about his plan to alleviate poverty by giving away chickens, Dickson was in Kenya hatching Eggpreneur, an initiative that helps rural mothers sell eggs for a living.
- Categories
- Entrepreneurship, Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- Tags
- entrepreneurship, farming, Women
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