mfarmPay Inc. is a fintech startup with a novel loan origination app driving financing to millions of rural African farmers using AI. We deploy data from a string of multiple data sources including satellite imagery and farm parcel identifiers to build a robust risk mitigation solution for our partner financial institutions and as basis to advance credit to African farmers… Read more →
We’ve all heard of Esoko, the ICTforAg company specializing in market prices for farmers. Starting in Ghana in 2007, then expanding across West Africa and beyond, it quickly became a donor-darling by promising an African ICT success story with: ¬ Market prices that could alleviate smallholder farmer poverty. ¬ Technology that could bridge systematic transportation failures. ¬ A private-sector for-profit model that didn’t… Read more →