Mobile for Development Resources

Webinar – COVID-19: Accelerating the use of digital agriculture

Check out our webinar for insights on trends in digital agriculture adoption during the pandemic and the challenges posed by COVID-19 for smallholder farmers.

COVID-19: Accelerating the use of digital agriculture

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COVID-19 exposed the vulnerability of agricultural and food systems in LMICs. This report provides agritechs, MNOs, investors, and donors with insights into the adoption of digital agriculture and how to accelerate it in light of new challenges.

Inclusive Digital Agriculture: Making value chains work for farmers with disabilities

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For the first time, this report provides evidence of the barriers facing farmers with disabilities in the agricultural value chain in LMICs and the opportunities to support disability inclusion in agriculture through digital tools.

Digital Innovation for Climate-Resilient Agriculture

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This report highlights the potential of digital services to strengthen the climate resilience of smallholder farmers, and focuses on how MNO assets - including rainfall observations from mobile networks - can be used to localise and scale these services.

Agritech innovation in Latin America: opportunities for smallholders

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Watch this video to learn about the agritech ecosystem for smallholder farmers in Latin America and the Caribbean and the emerging opportunities in digital agriculture.

AgriTech Trends in Latin America: Innovations Disrupting Smallholder Farming

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In this session, we explored trends in digital disruption impacting smallholder farmers in Latin America. Regional practitioners and experts shared their experiences on the potential of digital interventions to address low farm productivity and lack of ...

Landscaping the agritech ecosystem for smallholder farmers in Latin America and the Caribbean

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This landscape analysis of digital agriculture tools in Latin America and the Carribean highlights major trends and key opportunities for digital interventions that could deliver long-term, sustainable economic and social benefits for smallholder farmers.

Digital Opportunities for MNOs: A Discussion with Jazz Pakistan

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Watch our discussion with Jazz Pakistan about the potential digital opportunities for MNOs.

Driving Affordable Smart Farming through Partnerships

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Learn more about driving affordable smart farming through partnerships.

Digitising Rural Asia: Transforming Agriculture with Agritech

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We explored the opportunity to digitise the agricultural last mile in APAC. This session brought together regional practitioners and experts to discuss digital agriculture projects that bring efficiencies to farmers and agribusiness in the agricultural ...

Introducing Digital Agriculture Maps: The state of the sector in 2020

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In this video blog, Daniele Tricarico of the GSMA AgriTech programme presents

Transforming Agriculture in Africa: Digital Innovations in Action

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We explored the exciting trends in the digitisation of Africa’s agriculture sector. This session brought together regional AgriTech practitioners and experts who showcased and discussed digital agriculture projects, from climate smart advisories to ...

Boosting climate resilience for smallholder farmers in the face of growing climate challenges

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Climate change continues to stress the global food system with increased climate variability and extremes in temperature and rainfall. As shifting seasonal patterns make climate risks less predictable, and the increased intensity of ...

Changing the agri-investment landscape in Africa

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Despite the increased availability of investor capital supporting start-ups in Sub-Saharan Africa, funding remains a major challenge for the agritech sector. In 2019, African agritech start-ups only raised around 4 per cent of all the ...

Building resilience in agricultural value chains in the COVID-19 era

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Disruptions to demand and distribution in food and input supply chains caused by the Covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated existing systemic challenges faced by all actors in agricultural value chains. Agribusinesses are adapting existing ...

Digital Agriculture Maps

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This report on the key trends in digital agriculture, produced in collaboration with IDH Farmfit, offers a snapshot into the digital agriculture landscape in Low and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs).

Agricultural insurance for smallholder farmers: Digital innovations for scale

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Using primary and secondary research, we explore how mobile technology can drive the adoption of index insurance to develop smallholder farmer resilience. Our recommendations show how index insurance services can grow through bundling and partnerships.

AgriTech in Nigeria: Investment opportunities and challenges

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This report offers a landscape of the evolution of agritech investment in Nigeria, and the role played by different investors in the growth of the sector. It highlights investment trends and identifies possible opportunities for sector growth.

State of the Industry Report on Mobile Money 2019

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This year’s report examines what one billion registered accounts signify for the mobile money industry, mobile money users and the future of the mobile money ecosystem; moving us a step closer to a digital future for all.

Mobile for Development brochure 2020

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GSMA Mobile for Development has recently celebrated its 10-year anniversary. Ten years in which we have grown from a simple but powerful idea to a global team of 130 and a portfolio of projects that have now impacted ...

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