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Webinar: Scaling impactful digital agricultural services in the last mile

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Wednesday 5 Apr 2023 | AgriTech | AgriTech solutions | Mobile for Development | Resource | Video | Webinar |

This webinar recording presents key results and lessons from the GSMA Innovation Fund for the Digitisation of Agricultural Value Chains, an initiative that supported six grantee organisations in designing, developing, testing and ...

The GSMA Innovation Fund for Digitisation of Agricultural Value Chains

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Wednesday 29 Mar 2023 | AgriTech | AgriTech solutions | Climate | Digitisation of agricultural value chains | English | Financial inclusion for farmers | Innovation fund and grants | South Asia | Sub-Saharan Africa | Video |

Over the last three years, we've provided de-risking grants and technical assistance to six organisations to help them develop, test and scale their solutions and services. Here, we share some of the results and impact of their work.

Improving Farmer Livelihoods Through Digitised Agricultural Value Chains

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Wednesday 29 Mar 2023 | AgriTech | AgriTech solutions | Climate | English | Financial inclusion for farmers | Global and regional studies | Innovation fund and grants | Report | Resource | South Asia | Sub-Saharan Africa |

This report shares lessons about business models, service design and user uptake and feedback, and assesses the perceived impact of digital agriculture services on farmer incomes and climate resilience.

Webinar: Enabling climate services through mobile network operator data

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Wednesday 29 Mar 2023 | AgriTech | AgriTech solutions | Climate | English | South Asia | Sub-Saharan Africa | Webinar |

This webinar recording includes a short presentation of the findings from the recently published GSMA report ‘Enabling climate services through mobile network operator data’.

Enabling climate services through mobile network operator data

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Thursday 16 Feb 2023 | AgriTech | AgriTech solutions | Climate | English | Improve Climate Resilience | Report | South Asia | Sub-Saharan Africa |

This report outlines the opportunity of CML rainfall observation to build the climate resilience of rural populations.

Webinar: Applying for the GSMA AgriTech Accelerator

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Tuesday 24 Jan 2023 | AgriTech | AgriTech solutions | Climate | English | Financial inclusion for farmers | South Asia | Sub-Saharan Africa | Webinar |

This webinar expanded the content from the previous two, to address questions we have received from prospective applicants.

Webinar: Introducing the GSMA AgriTech Accelerator

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Friday 16 Dec 2022 | AgriTech | English |

The GSMA AgriTech Programme recently hosted two webinars to present the recently launched

Webinar: The business case for farmers to participate in digitised agricultural value chains

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Friday 21 Oct 2022 | AgriTech | AgriTech solutions |

This webinar presents key insights from a recent GSMA report that looks at the business case for farmers to participate in digitised agricultural value chains.

Data-driven advisory services for climate-smart smallholder agriculture

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Thursday 22 Sep 2022 | AgriTech | AgriTech solutions | Climate | climate resilience | Digitisation of agricultural value chains | English | Global | improve | Improve Climate Resilience | India | Kenya | Nigeria | Research | Resource | Sub-Saharan Africa |

In order to achieve sustainable development in the face of the intensifying impacts of climate change, agricultural production systems need to simultaneously achieve three goals: Increase agricultural productivity and ...

Assessment of smart farming solutions for smallholders in low and middle-income countries

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Monday 22 Aug 2022 | AgriTech | AgriTech solutions | English | Improve Climate Resilience | Innovation Fund | Report | Resource | Sub-Saharan Africa |

Smart farming solutions can play an important role in helping smallholder farmers in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) increase their productivity and resilience to disaster by opening access to assets and mechanisation, ...

The GSMA AgriTech Toolkit for the digitisation of agricultural value chains

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Wednesday 27 Jul 2022 | AgriTech | Building the financial ecosystem | East Asia and Pacific | English | Global | Industry assets and standards | MNOs' operational and strategic issues | Mobile access and use | Mobile for Development | Report | Resource | State of the industry and trends | Sub-Saharan Africa | Toolkit |

The Toolkit for the Digitisation of Agricultural Value Chains is a collection of resources that illustrate how digital technologies can address pain points for farmers and value chain actors, such as agribusinesses and cooperatives, in ...

Reaching and Empowering Women with Digital Solutions in the Agricultural Last Mile

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Thursday 12 May 2022 | AgriTech | Case study | Connected Women | Digitisation of agricultural value chains | Financial inclusion for farmers | Financial inclusion for women | Gender | Mobile access and use | Mobile for Development | Resource | Sub-Saharan Africa |

Our latest report explores how women’s limited participation in digitised agricultural value chains can only be addressed through gender-inclusive approaches that purposely consider women as well as men.

Agritech Data Enables Loans for Farmers in Papua New Guinea

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Thursday 31 Mar 2022 | AgriTech | AgriTech solutions | Building the financial ecosystem | East Asia and Pacific | English | Financial inclusion for farmers | Papua New Guinea | Video |

In Papua New Guinea, agriculture is the most important economic activity, dominating rural areas where over 86 per cent of the country’s population resides. A key challenge ...

Exploring opportunities for climate services in Papua New Guinea with Digicel

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Thursday 24 Mar 2022 | AgriTech | AgriTech solutions | Case studies | Case study | Climate | ClimateTech | Digitisation of agricultural value chains | East Asia and Pacific | English | Financial inclusion for farmers | Global and regional studies | Improve Climate Resilience | MNOs' operational and strategic issues | Mobile access and use | Mobile for Development | Papua New Guinea | Report | Research | Resource | Resource Type | Rural network coverage |

Our new report illustrates the unique opportunity to use existing mobile infrastructure for high-resolution rainfall observation and improved climate services in Papua New Guinea.

The GSMA AgriTech session at Cracking the Nut 2021: Building resilient food systems with digital agriculture

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Friday 17 Dec 2021 | AgriTech | AgriTech solutions | Climate | Energy | English | Global | Video | Water |

On 16 November 2021, we hosted a breakout session at Cracking the Nut, the global event convening development practitioners to discuss issues around building the world’s rural and agricultural markets.

The GSMA AgriTech programme: How we work with agritech companies and investors

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Wednesday 15 Dec 2021 | AgriTech | AgriTech solutions | Climate | Digitisation of agricultural value chains | English | Financial inclusion for farmers | Innovation fund and grants | Video |

The AgriTech programme operates at the intersection of the mobile ecosystem and the development sector to develop, launch and scale commercially viable digital solutions for smallholder farmers.

The GSMA AgriTech programme: What we do

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Wednesday 15 Dec 2021 | AgriTech | AgriTech solutions | Climate | Digitisation of agricultural value chains | English | Financial inclusion for farmers | Innovation fund and grants | Video |

The AgriTech programme operates at the intersection of the mobile ecosystem and the development sector to develop, launch and scale commercially viable digital solutions for smallholder farmers.

The GSMA AgriTech programme: How we work with MNOs and climate resilience service providers

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Wednesday 15 Dec 2021 | AgriTech | AgriTech solutions | Climate | Digitisation of agricultural value chains | English | Financial inclusion for farmers | Innovation fund and grants | Video |

The AgriTech programme operates at the intersection of the mobile ecosystem and the development sector to develop, launch and scale commercially viable digital solutions for smallholder farmers.

The GSMA AgriTech programme: How we work with agribusinesses

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Wednesday 15 Dec 2021 | AgriTech | AgriTech solutions | Climate | Digitisation of agricultural value chains | English | Financial inclusion for farmers | Innovation fund and grants | Video |

The AgriTech programme operates at the intersection of the mobile ecosystem and the development sector to develop, launch and scale commercially viable digital solutions for smallholder farmers.

Agri DFS: Emerging business models to support the financial inclusion of smallholder farmers

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Wednesday 13 Oct 2021 | AgriTech | AgriTech solutions | Building the financial ecosystem | Case study | Digitisation of agricultural value chains | English | Financial inclusion for farmers | Financial inclusion for women | Global | Mobile for Development | Report | Resilient technology | Resource |

Agricultural digital financial services can enable smallholders to manage cash flows and protect themselves against external shocks. This report explores five agri DFS business models; their enablers, partnership models and pathways to scale.