Agriculture Update Information

 The GSMA brings together and helps the cellular enterprise, agricultural area stakeholders, innovators and traders in AgriTech space to launch, enhance and scale impactful and commercially possible virtual solutions for smallholder farmers within the developing global.

Globally, 500 million families depend on agriculture for their livelihoods. Smallholder farmers are responsible for generating the meals on which up to 70 in line with cent of the arena’s populace is predicated upon, however, they remain financially excluded and increasingly more at risk of changing weather styles affecting their yields.

We are final the distance among the want for social and environmental impact and equitability within the meals price chain and business pursuits of stakeholders inside the agricultural industry and AgriTech space. We are looking for, perceive, promote, check and scale fashions that supply social effect at the same time as rewarding personal sector participation. We tell donor and investor community at the operational and enterprise models which have the very best capability for impact and sustainability and we forge partnerships required for innovation, inclusion and scale.

By providing investment and deep technical expertise to service providers, we guide scalable industrial virtual solutions that effect smallholder farmers and the agricultural enterprise at massive.

All our work is done with a social effect goal. Everything we research is made to be had to investors, donors, cell operators, AgriTech carriers, content material developers and others on an unrestricted and royalty-loose foundation. All the training found out from our implementation initiatives are to be had for public use.

Programme Update 

We have rebranded from former GSMA mAgri to GSMA AgriTech programme to reflect the adjustments inside the enterprise that occurred over the last decade given that the beginning of the programme in 2009. With a multitude of virtual technology and systems being available to reach smallholders, we are excited to tackle a broader outlook to synthesise and offer best practice in AgriTech space to industry practitioners and investors.

This initiative is presently funded with the aid of the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) and the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)and supported with the aid of the GSMA and its participants.