Agribusiness in Sub-Saharan Africa
Join us as we celebrate World Food Day today. Over 63 percent of the total population in Sub-Saharan Africa live in rural areas where agriculture remains the single largest source of employment and...
View ArticleUnderstanding our Smallholder Clients, Serving them Better
This blog was was originally published in CGAP’s blog series on Addressing the Gaps in Data about Smallholder Households. Rebecca Muronji is a smallholder farmer working and living in Kenya’s Teso...
View ArticleThe MasterCard Foundation Fund for Rural Prosperity: Helping Transform the...
In Africa, fewer than 25 percent of adults have and use a bank account. In rural areas, where the majority of Africans live, the situation is worse — a resident there is only half as likely to be...
View ArticleHow Eugenie’s Poultry Farm is Helping Her Community
On a rainy day in rural Rwanda, we met 26 year-old Eugenie. She is one of the 7,000 of young people benefitting from TechnoServe’s STRYDE training. In Rwanda, like in many African nations, there is a...
View ArticleThe Power of Agriculture
What would happen if we could harness the power of farming – an occupation held by 70 percent of the world’s poor? One Acre Fund believes that when farmers prosper, this will have a ripple effect on...
View ArticleEnvisioning Agriculture as a Business for Youth in Africa
This article was originally published in Devex as part of their #YouthWill Social Media Campaign. Learn more about the campaign here. Agriculture is the single largest source of income for rural...
View ArticleCompeting for Capital in East Africa’s Start-up World
What’s it like to “make a pitch” for an investment? Recently, I slipped into the back of a darkened conference room in downtown Nairobi. Our partner, Village Capital, was conducting the second day of a...
View ArticleIn Rwanda with One Acre Fund
This week, MasterCard Foundation Board members, Dr. Jendayi Frazer and Don Morrison, as well as Christina Levine, Jason Reindorp and I are in Rwanda to visit Foundation partners and learn how our...
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