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Digital Finance for Smallholder Farmers

In conjunction with the focus note "Serving Smallholder Farmers: Recent Developments in Digital Finance," CGAP asked experts who use digital channels to improve smallholder access to financial services for an inside look at how their work is faring and what others can learn from it.

An elderly Senegalese farmer proudly displays the saving 'voucher' cards he has brought from myAgro over many months, and about to finish his savings milestone (displayed on thermometer!)
Blog
22 February 2016

Helping Smallholders Buy Inputs, One Scratch Card at a Time

What if there was a way to construct a digital finance product that was based on habits and behaviors that are already part of smallholders’ lives? There is: Meet the myAgro scratch card model.
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Blog
02 July 2014

Enabling Data-Driven Financing for Smallholder Farmers

Mobilizing technology, such as smartphones, tablets, and the Internet, holds a tremendous opportunity to provide financial services for smallholders and to empower them to use data that is critical to their businesses in better ways.
A man harvests quinoa
Blog
26 June 2014

Can Mobile Money Extend Financial Services To Smallholder Farmers

On paper, digital financial services can sound like a silver bullet to reach millions of rural, underserved smallholder farmers. In reality, the challenges can be greater than the deployment of a low-tech solution.
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Blog
24 June 2014

Bringing Mobile Wallets to Nigerian Farmers

Cellulant developed a mobile wallet network in Nigeria that extends to some eight million farmers. With more than 40 million transactions in just two years, smallholder farmers in Nigeria are poised to adopt digital financial services more broadly.
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Blog
19 June 2014

Smallholder Finance: Digital Solutions to Traditional Challenges?

A new CGAP focus note takes a look at the ways digital financial services can help overcome the traditional "pain points" - including higher cost and risk - of serving smallholder farmers with formal financial services.

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