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Enabling Data-Driven Financing for Smallholder Farmers

Enabling Data-Driven Financing for Smallholder Farmers

Today smartphones and tablets provide portable computing power en masse in many places, but rural agricultural communities have yet to tap into the near infinite resources made available by the Internet. Herein lies a tremendous opportunity to increase farm-level efficiency and empower farmers to better use and share data that is critical to their business. Importantly, mobilizing technology in this way can facilitate the provision of financial services to smallholder farmers.

Non Financial ServicesRural & Agriculture Finance