Posts on the Country "Kenya"
17/ 07
2017
GIS and Remote Sensing for agricultural resource management Course
Kenya 17/07/2017
| GIS and Remote Sensing for agricultural resource management Course |
| Date |
17th – 21st July 2017 |
FarmDrive improves access to credit for smallholder farmers
20/04/2017
Over 90% of sub-Saharan Africa’s 48 million smallholder farmers lack access to formal credit. Although agriculture accounts for around 65% of employment and 32% of gross domestic product, less than 6% of commercial loan recipients are smallholder farmers. The problem is on both sides: on the one...
Now Scientific Fact: Mobile Money Can Lift Women Out of Poverty
23/03/2017
Mobile money is a service that allows monetary value to be stored on a mobile phone and sent to other users via text messages. Mobile money was first introduced in South Africa and the Philippines about 10 years ago. In Kenya, this service was introduced in March 2007 and was called “M-PESA” (M is...
Kenya Opens Up Agricultural Data
06/03/2017
In 2011, the Kenyan government launched the Kenya Open Data Initiative, making key government data freely available to the public through a single online portal. Kenya Open Data is an initiative designed to make developmental, demographic, statistical and expenditure data available in a useful...
Kenya Civil Aviation Authority has approved draft regulations on the commercial use of drones
21/02/2017
After a two-year ban of unmanned aereal vehicles for non-military reasons in Kenya, the Kenya Civil Aviation Authority (KCAA) has approved draft regulations on the commercial use of drones in the country. The law will be released soon, according to governemnt officials. Kenya is the second African...
New Nutrition Knowledge Bank gives Africans and Asians direct access to expert nutritional advice on their mobile phones
17/02/2017
A new open-access Nutrition Knowledge Bank has been created as part of a GSMA mNutrition initiative to help tackle malnutrition in Africa and Asia. The information will be shared through text messages, voice messages and factsheets. The project aims to reach 3 million people in 12 developing...
Youth and Technology: The Missing Link in Agriculture
15/02/2017
Photo credits: Young Africa Works This is the title of a blog post by Brian Bosire, founder of UjuziKilimo, an agricultural technology company that brings affordable precision farming to smallholder farmers in Kenya, faces the issue of technology adoption among smallholders in Kenya. Although the...
Arifu platform Adaptive Learning System
07/02/2017
One of the main challenges for development of smallholder farmers' livelihoods is access to market information and financial services. Smallholder farmers are the most underserved group in the world by financial services, with women and youth at a particular disadvantage. Arifu is a platform that...