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Agritech: How Leveraging Technology Can Help African Farmers

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Case studies across Africa demonstrate the positive impact that access to even the most basic mobile technology can offer smallholder farmers. This underscores the importance of driving inclusive access to digital technology, especially mobile-based, to help the continent’s farmers...
East Africa

Google donates KES 100 mln to train Kenyan farmers on digital skills

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Google, in partnership with One Acre Fund, will train 100,000 Kenyan smallholder farmers in digital skills through a KES 100 million grant. Google Kenya Country Manager Charles Murito said the training skills program will help smallholder farmers digitize their...
Mobile and Telecoms

Rwanda pins hope on ICT for agricultural, economic growth

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Smallholder farming, which is the backbone of many African economies, is set to be transformed by a combination of investment and greater access to information and communication technology, particularly mobile phones. The claim was made today by Michael Hailu, Director...
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ICT – all that is between Rwanda and value-added agriculture

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Approximately 65% of Africa’s workforce is involved in agriculture and the sector makes up 32% of the continent’s GDP, so there is a good reason to be optimistic about the future. So said Michael Hailu, director of CTA (Technical Centre...
Mobile and Telecoms

Why Kenyan farmers want to sow with M-Pesa

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Kenya’s hugely-successful mobile money transfer service M-Pesa announced that they have partnered with Kenyan software solution and agribusiness company M-Farm Limited with the aim to improve the agricultural business for small-scale farmers. “M-Pesa Foundation is bridging the digital divide between agricultural...
Mobile and Telecoms

Farmers to be supplied with mobile phones in Nigeria

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Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has revealed the final stages of their plan to distribute 10 million phones to farmers across the country. Minister Akinwumi Adesina highlighted the planned distribution during a workshop under the National...
Mobile and Telecoms

New mobile app sows seeds of hope for Tanzania’s rural farmers

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SEACOM has provided funding towards the development and piloting of a new Swahili and English language application for farmers in Tanzania. This falls in line with SEACOM’s commitment towards fostering the use of ICT for economic development across Africa.   The...
Mobile and Telecoms

NGO builds three ICT centres in Northern Ghana

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A non-governmental organisation in Ghana, CAMFED (Campaign for Female Education), is currently building three ultra-modern Information Communication Technology (ICT) centres, backed by Google’s Cooperate Giving Council. Construction is currently underway in the Nanumba North (Bimbilla), Mamprusi East (Gambaga) and Gushegu...
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