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May 26, 2021 Priyank Arora Tractor mechanization helps farmers plant 40 times faster, and 66% cheaper when compared with the time and cost requirements of manual planting. Mechanization of agriculture is considered crucial for sustainability for all, especially, to eliminate hunger and ensure food security. However, the use of tractors and other farm equipment remains dismally low among farmers in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia-pacific regions. This is primarily due to low purchasing power, and very small farm land sizes in these regions. For instance, across sub-Saharan Africa, 220 million farm...
IoT can not only help in cost savings, and operational efficiencies but also creating new offerings to transform existing business model.
Beyond Access and Usage: Financial Services for Livelihoods By “Work is at the core of human dignity.” — Leila Janah, social entrepreneur When CGAP transitioned to its current five-year strategy back in 2018, we placed at the very top of our theory of change a vision statement for our work and in 2020 added an emphasis on women: “A world where poor people, especially women, are empowered to capture opportunities and build resilience through financial services.” In other words, we explicitly moved beyond the access and usage paradigm of financial inclusion, toward a framework that...