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21. $50 Million Fund to Boost Smallholder Farmers’ Livelihoods

(Blog)

... two users advertise, sell, order and pay for the wares online by the use of a mobile phone. The technology involved is as simple as sending money via the phone after registering by dialing *384*6# and ...

Created on 26 January 2015

22. Innovations

(Business Models)

... post-harvest management among others. FCI’s ICT applications in Agricultural commercialization and market development include; AfmaX which is mobile telephony platform based on USSD technology that connects ...

Created on 02 December 2014

23. Market Research

(Uncategorised)

... farmers are involved in the research process. FCI employs various methods to conduct its studies including a mobile data collection platform to collect and enter primary data collected from respondent ...

Created on 27 November 2014

24. Publications

(FCI Evidence)

... portfolio to supply garlic to Indian clients. For Samson, the bottom line must make sense. 22. Toto Care - Mobile Day Care Units for Commercial Villages Not too long ago, Mrs Wangari Wakalenju, was ...

Created on 27 November 2014

25. Press Center

(About Us)

... at Makandi Trading Centre, a few kilometres away, where farmers in the region own a grain store. Lucy Kaari, a farmer and a Village Knowledge Worker (VKW), attributes the improved harvest to a mobile phone ...

Created on 08 October 2014

26. Toto Care

(Business Models)

... homes. Toto Care an FCI innovative approach is a mobile village day care unit equipped with toys and games to engage children in play activities when their mothers attend Commercial village meetings. This ...

Created on 08 October 2014

27. Africa Farms and Markets Network (AFMA)

(Business Models)

... web and mobile based platform. These actors include; small, medium and large scale farmers, (individually as well as through farmer organizations), agro-input suppliers, formal and informal traders, (individually ...

Created on 08 October 2014

28. Africa School of Agribusiness & Marketing

(Business Models)

...  Africa School of Agribusiness & Markets curriculum includes mobile solutions and network platforms to enhance access to market and information. This approach integrates promotion of value addition technologies ...

Created on 02 October 2014

29. ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT & Sustainability

(Business Models)

... clients would place orders and I had to travel to Uganda or Tanzania to source for the grains...  Read More Mobile Cassava Chipper transforming Tangakona Commercial Village local economy The Tanga ...

Created on 02 October 2014

30. Kijiji Products Model

(Business Models)

... innovations include; Mobile motorized/electric, oxen drawn chippers, manual operated chippers as well as hummer mills for roots and tuber processing into dry chips, composite flours, high quality Cassava ...

Created on 02 October 2014

31. CLIMATE RESILIENT Commercial Villages

(Business Models)

... FCI countries. FCI uses various digital innovations & mobile phone and mass media technologies to disseminate green technologies, extension information on water use efficiency, weather information, integrated ...

Created on 02 October 2014

32. KENYA | Women in Agri-Trade

(Interventions)

... Exchange) pilot phase has established that farmers in Africa have potential to save millions of hours spent travelling as well as millions of dollars.  The E-Women AFMA-X is a mobile phone based innovation ...

Created on 30 September 2014

33. EAST AFRICA | Cassava Village Processing Programme (CVPP)

(Interventions)

... initiated the programme, cassava farming has fostered the local economy, reduced poverty and hunger among the residents. Read more Mobile Cassava Chipper transforms the local economy in Tangakona Commercial ...

Created on 24 September 2014

34. KENYA | Commercial Village E-warehousing Programme

(Interventions)

... dolichos). FCI worked alongside the Grameen Foundation, training their field team in the use of the mobile technology. This project operated within FCI’s existing network of Commercial Villages ...

Created on 24 September 2014

35. WOMEN | Mama Trade, Enterprises & Empowerment

(Business Models)

... developed by FCI, the Afma-X (Africa Markets and Farms Exchange) platform is a mobile phone based virtual platform with support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation under GCE Phase1. The integrated ...

Created on 17 September 2014