Posts on the Topic "digital financial services"
AFDB launches Africa Digital Financial Inclusion Facility (ADFI)
13/06/2019
The African Development Bank and its partners on the 13th of June, 2019 launched the Africa Digital Financial Inclusion Facility (ADFI), designed to aid safety and expansion of digital financial transactions in Africa. The Fund, launched at the Bank’s Annual Meetings in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, is...
E-Agriculture in Action: Blockchain for Agriculture
01/02/2019
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) have recently published a title called, ‘ Blockchain for Agriculture, Opportunities and Challenges’ as part of the E-Agriculture in Action series publications. This is part of the...
GFFA 2019 Communiqué stresses support to farmers through digital innovation
21/01/2019
The agricultural ministers of 74 nations who attended the just ended the 11th Berlin Agriculture Ministers’ Conference, held during the Global Forum for Food and Agriculture issued a communique that affirms support to farmers through digital innovation. The statement acknowledge the projected...
How blockchain can help smallholder farmers
30/11/2018
by Imaran Haider The agricultural business has revolutionized in recent years but still faces multiple handles. The supply chain has been faced with the non-transparent, inefficient and noncommunicating network made up of processes, data, actors, and products. Disconnection and lack of transparency...
Driving Financial Inclusion for Smallholder Farmers by Leveraging Satellite Data and Machine Learning
21/11/2018
Globally, there are an estimated 500 million smallholder farmers -- and some 2.5 billion people living in smallholder farmer households -- who rely on agricultural production for their livelihood. These farmers feed 80% of the population in developing countries. By 2050 the world’s population is...
New ITU resolution on the use of ICTs to bridge the financial inclusion gap
13/11/2018
The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) Member States have approved at new resolution that consolidate ITU’s mandate on matters relating to digital financial inclusion, reports ITU. The except of the news can be read below “Two billion adults worldwide do not have a bank account, but among...14/ 11
2018
Successes and Lessons: Scaling Financial Services to Kenya’s Smallholder Farmers
Nairobi, Kiribati 14/11/2018
A one-size-fits-all approach to agricultural finance and insufficient resources make it difficult for smallholder farmers to become profitable, despite the pivotal role they play in agricultural production.
Over the last four years, Grameen Foundation and Musoni Microfinance Kenya have built a successful digital lending platform that has provided millions in funding to help farmers improve their productivity.
Digital Inclusion through mobile connectivity
06/11/2018
Can mobile money transform women's lives? The digital revolution has spread in many developing countries and mobile telephony is readily available and has penetrated areas not yet reached by other prior inventions. In Africa for example, the mobile adaption has grown in recent years and in 2017...
WFP and Alibaba enter into a partnership towards a World with Zero Hunger
05/11/2018
The partnership will support efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2 – a world with zero hunger. Alibaba and The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) have entered into a strategic partnership to achieve a world with zero hunger – which is Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2...