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Mercy Corps’ Agri-Fin Mobile program goes live in Indonesia, Uganda, and Zimbabwe

A unique “bundled” mobile service is changing the way smallholder farmers conduct business. A new Mercy Corps program, dubbed “Agri-Fin...

Unleashing Ugandan farmers’ potential through mobile phones

Farmers will be able to build a credit history through data collected on their farming supply purchases and produce sales. A powerful new mobile...

Mercy Corps partnership ushers in the mobile age for rural Filipino farmers

Filipino rice farmers will soon pad their mobile wallets with more than just mobile money: they’ll get on-demand farming advice, too. Though...

Who says GMOs are necessary? Small farmer shatters rice record

A 2012 report released by the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications highlights the unprecedented growth in biotech...

Post Harvest Challenges in Agriculture – Can Mobile Apps Help?

By Sheilah Birgen m:Lab The fourth Wireless Wednesday meet up on mobile innovations in agriculture saw mobile apps developers, entrepreneurs, farmers, NGOs, financial advisors,media, government representatives, and other stakeholders review apps that target post-harvest challenges. ...

8 Lessons Learned to Improve ICT-enabled FM Radio Station Sustainability

Recently, the African Farm Radio Research Initiative sought to test the effectiveness of a new radio campaign model developed by Farm Radio International: the participatory radio campaign (PRC). AFRRI’s research indicates there is a strong correlation between farmers listening to episodes of a radio campaign and going forward to adopt a new agricultural practice. ...

Whether weather….and other issues in indexed insurance

This post is part of our Closing the Gap: Financial Inclusion blog series, which shares the views of selected experts and practitioners on different financial inclusion topics. Similar Products: Powered by Speeding Financial Inclusion :: Amazon Increasing access to finance for India's rural poor presents a formidable developmental challenge...