Digital agriculture in Kenya: How is it enabling financial inclusion for farmers?
Tuesday 30 July, 2019 | AgriTech | Blog | Kenya
Kenya’s agriculture sector is crucial to the country’s economy and its people’s livelihoods. Agriculture accounts for 31.5 per cent of GDP and employs 38 per cent of the population. Over the last few years, the country has seen the emergence of digital tools that aim to ...
GSMA AgriTech: Digital disruption of the agricultural sector in Sub-Saharan Africa
Thursday 11 July, 2019 | AgriTech | Blog | Sub-Saharan Africa
Over the last ten years, the GSMA AgriTech programme has profiled a range of different digital agricultural solutions that are disrupting agriculture and improving smallholder farming. During our breakfast session at M360 Africa, we plan to take a detailed look at the ...
Investing in AgriTech to drive smallholder financial inclusion, livelihoods and climate resilience
Friday 31 May, 2019 | AgriTech | Blog | blog | English | Innovation fund and grants | South Asia | Sub-Saharan Africa
Since the GSMA mAgri Programme started 10 years ago in 2009, not only has our team of experts grown, but also the complexity and range of our supported projects has broadened. Over the last decade, we have generated countless insights and resources from across many ...
Agri value chain digitisation: What is the opportunity for agribusinesses? Ghana Field Focus Week lessons, part two
Wednesday 15 May, 2019 | Africa | AgriTech | Blog | blog | Ghana
At our Field Focus Week 2019, the GSMA team together with 25 practitioners, including 11 MNOs, embarked on a trip to rural Ghana to learn about new tools that are digitising the processes involved in collecting farmer and farm data, procuring crops and enabling payments to ...
Presenting GSMA’s latest tool for value chain analysis in agriculture
Wednesday 20 March, 2019 | AgriTech | Blog | blog | South Asia | Sub-Saharan Africa
In the past year, the GSMA has supported six mobile money providers in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia to design and develop holistic digital solutions centred round the digitisation of agricultural payments that an agribusiness makes to farmers for the procurement of ...
Learning first-hand how farmers experience last mile digitisation: Ghana Field Focus Week lessons, part one
Monday 4 March, 2019 | AgriTech | Blog | Ghana
The month of January at GSMA is the time when we embark on the immersive learning journey that we call Field Focus Week. Together with our MNO members and agricultural sector stakeholders – agribusinesses, AgTech and financial providers – we travel into rural regions ...
Looking back at last mile digitisation in the dairy value chain with Jazz Pakistan
Tuesday 15 January, 2019 | AgriTech | Blog | English | Mobile access and use | Pakistan | South Asia
Livestock is a central component of Pakistan’s agriculture sector, contributing 11.1% to GDP with direct involvement of over 8 million rural households. The country produced over 57 million tonnes of milk during the last financial year. The GSMA Agri programme seeks to ...
Reinventing rural financial inclusion in Latin America: Highlights from Foromic
Friday 14 December, 2018 | AgriTech | Blog | Building the financial ecosystem | Latin America & the Caribbean | Mobile Money
At GSMA mAgri, we have been looking for some time at the evolution of ICT in agriculture in Latin America and in particular at the role of mobile technology to support financial inclusion of smallholder farmers. Recently we were in Barranquilla, Colombia at Foromic, the ...
Improving Farmer Livelihoods: UK aid-funded agricultural content becomes publicly available
Friday 16 November, 2018 | AgriTech | Blog | blog | South Asia | Sub-Saharan Africa
Our agricultural content is now publicly available to any organisation interested in improving the quality of their mobile-based information services targeting the rural segment and contributing to Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2, Zero Hunger.
Financial Inclusion Week 2018 Twitter Chat: The power of mobile money in reaching the underserved
Thursday 15 November, 2018 | AgriTech | Blog | Building the financial ecosystem | Connected Women | Digital literacy | English | Financial inclusion for women | Gender | Global | Global | Mobile access and use | Mobile for Development | Mobile Money | Policy and regulation | Uncategorized
This blog was co-authored by Mariana Lopez and Abbie Phatty-Jobe. We were honoured to join governments, the private sector and development organisations in welcoming Financial Inclusion Week 2018 and exploring this year’s theme of ‘getting inclusion right’. Each year, ...
Supporting the digitisation of the agricultural last mile with liquid mobile money distribution networks
Tuesday 2 October, 2018 | Africa | AgriTech | Blog | Global | Mobile for Development | Rural network coverage | Sub-Saharan Africa
At GSMA mAgri, we are working with mobile operators to realise the opportunity to digitise agricultural value chains. The use of mobile phones in the so-called agricultural last mile – the final link in agricultural value chains between the buyers of crops and the ...
Key learnings from Tigo’s initiative to digitise Rwanda’s tea value chain
Monday 20 August, 2018 | AgriTech | Blog | English | Rwanda | Sub-Saharan Africa
As part of our activities at Mobile – 360 Africa this year, Tigo Rwanda and Access to Finance Rwanda (AFR) co-hosted the mAgri team, our guests and the GSMA’s Chief Regulatory Officer John Giusti, on a field trip to visit a tea value chain digitisation deployment in ...
A value chain approach to boost farmer access to finance: Learnings from GSMA Mobile 360 Africa
Wednesday 1 August, 2018 | AgriTech | Blog | Rwanda | Sub-Saharan Africa
Driving around the city, my eyes gleamed at what they could see, engulfed by beautiful hills at every turn – Rwanda truly lives up to its nickname – the land of a thousand hills. The country has made huge strides in the last 24 years, I watched as people tapped their cards ...
Digitising agricultural value chains in Sri Lanka using Human Centred Design
Wednesday 13 June, 2018 | AgriTech | Blog | blog | English | South Asia | Sri Lanka
Since June 2017, the GSMA mAgri programme has been working with the Digital services team at Dialog Axiata PLC (Dialog) in Sri Lanka to explore opportunities for developing a business-to-business (B2B) service for last mile digitisation in agriculture. Sri Lanka has a large ...
#CaseForChange: Mobile service is bringing traditional farming into the 21st Century across Sri Lanka
Friday 23 February, 2018 | AgriTech | Blog | blog | English | Sri Lanka
Dedicated to the UN Sustainable Development Goals and connecting everyone and everything to a better future, mobile operators are transforming millions of people’s lives. To tell these stories of human impact, the #CaseForChange is packed with the latest tech and travelling ...
Supporting our members to rethink agricultural digitisation: Key takeaways from the mAgri Field Focus Session
Tuesday 20 February, 2018 | AgriTech | Blog | English | Mobile access and use | Partnership engagement | Sub-Saharan Africa | Uganda
The GSMA mAgri team started 2018 with the ambitious mission of hosting our first Field Focus Session dedicated to digitising agricultural value chains. The weeklong event took place in Uganda where we brought together 10 mobile operators from across Africa and South Asia and ...
Key stakeholders are coming together to digitise the last mile of agricultural value chains in Ghana
Monday 12 February, 2018 | AgriTech | Blog | Building the financial ecosystem | English | Ghana | Mobile access and use | Mobile Money | Partnership engagement | Sub-Saharan Africa
As part of a series of three country-focused reports that highlight pathways to digitising the last mile of agricultural value chains, we previously shared findings from Uganda and Côte d’Ivoire. In this blog, drawing on findings from our third report, we take a closer look ...
To become more climate resilient developing nations need to deploy mobile tools
Tuesday 6 February, 2018 | AgriTech | Blog | Digital literacy | English | Global | Mobile access and use | Partnership engagement | Preparedness | Resilient technology | Rural network coverage
Climate change has made weather patterns harder to predict and extreme events such as droughts and floods have become more frequent and severe. Developing countries feel the sharpest effects of climate change. In 2017, the droughts that affected East Africa, Yemen and ...