Cases Agricultural millennials might like to look at

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Please tell us if you are part of a millennial under 35 network passionate about agricultural development models sustaining producers and planet - so we can add your link to http://2030now.blogspot.com

Latin American Development Youth Entrepreneur Projects -Mobile Catt...h  Ieetech

Blessed (virtuous) value exchange models catalogued by Ethiopian Diaspora in DC  -benchark model coffee with coop of 200000 ethiopian farmers

-other cafe models cafe grumpy new york - colombia model

Eleni exchange Ethiopia

Grameen Intel Partner models - mobilising bg datasets for small farmers - india with nabrad; cambodia with ifad and usaid ....

Grameen Mung Bean model in association with Japan

Various BRAC crop science models

Agricultural models published by usaid

First rural entrepreneur agriculture competition usa

Acumen Patient Capital Models

Esoko

Monitor Kenya Tea Project

BRAC maize and Poultry project Tanzania

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https://esoko.com/?page_id=143

Esoko started as an R&D project in 2006 to develop an SMS processing platform to help FoodNet in Uganda collect and distribute market prices to smallholder farmers. Interested in how technology can play a role in economic development, the goal has always been to do the stuff we love (software) and have an impact we’d be proud of (increasing revenues for smallholder farmers).

That motivation has guided the Esoko team to this day. Across the continent there is a growing momentum as subsistence agriculture makes way for agri-business. New science, alongside an increasing global concern around food security, climate change and nutrition is driving change — particularly in Africa where yields are well below the potential. We think that information drives that change – that knowledge is power – whether you are a farmer working out when to apply fertilizer, or where to sell your product, — or a business trying to monitor the field or market your services. 

Esoko has recognized the complexity and diversity of stakeholders and information needs within the value chain. As such, we’ve created a unique and broad communication platform. We’ve also recognized it’s 5% technology and 95% deployment, and so we’ve built a team of advisors and a network of practitioners focussed on supporting our clients to build successful teams and programs.

We also chose to build Esoko as a business, to ensure that our success and survival depended wholly on the people we were aiming to serve.
We’re more inspired and excited every day that we work in this field, and we are humbled by the challenges that change brings, and the complexity of the task ahead.

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Overview http://gym.gramweb.net/

Bangladesh is an agricultural based country. A large percentage of  rural people depend on agriculture or agriculture related jobs. Seasonal crops of different types are cultivated in Bangladesh. All  crops are used for meeting  the demand of the local people. So, export of local crops in a foreign country is a big challenge. There is ample land for production of profitable crops in Bangladesh. Due to lack of knowledge about profitable crops, the people of rural area cannot utilize their land. Mung bean is a crop which is used in our country as pulse but in Japan it is used as vegetables (bean sprout). Bean sprout is a popular vegetable in Japan. Japan is dependent on imports primarily from China for nearly 100 percent of the mung beans it consumes. So, the farmers of Bangladesh have a good opportunity to gain  more income through mung bean cultivation. Grameen Yukiguni Miatake Ltd. is giving support for the cultivation of mung bean in the farmer’s land. Grameen Yukiguni Maitake Ltd. is giving knowledge about modern ways of mung bean cultivation.

Rural advancement projects at   http://gramweb.net

-while not all of these are agricultural, they are coordinated by Grameen's tech partner at Kyushu Japan and have a long-term coherence worth watching

GramBlood DataBank GCC GramBlood DataBank is a web-based platform which serves as a storage of blood donors’ information while connecting the blood donors with the blood receivers by constructing the location map of the donors. The database is searchable in relation to blood groups and donors’ locations. The integrated SMS notification feature enables the blood receivers to get connected with the registered donors within seconds. Thus, this virtual blood bank can make us to get over the limitations we have in storing blood. This initiative aims to make people concerned about knowing own blood group, encourage potential ones to donate blood and make blood donors available in need in the neighborhood. bloodbank.gramweb.net

Income Generation Project for Farmers Using ICT (IGPF)  JICA, Kyushu University, BSMRAU, WIN Inc., GCC IGPF aims to produce technologies to provide advanced farming knowledge, crop maintenance and marketing information. Farmers will be able to communicate with the experts and market agents in remote areas. Produces chemical free healthy vegetables. IGPF is funded by JICA jointly supported by GCC, BSMRAU and WIN Inc. igpf.gramweb.net

International Research Opportunity Program (IROP)  GCC IROP creates opportunities for the students, professionals, researchers, interested in developing social business. We arrange tour programs to the fields to identify social problems and gather unique ideas to solve social issues. Currently we are collaborating with Institution of Innovation Research (IIR) of Hitotsubashi University, Japan and hosting 100 researchers per year. Grameen Yukiguni Maitake Ltd. (GYM), a joint venture social business between Yukiguni Maitake Co. Ltd., Japan and Grameen Krishi Foundation, Bangladesh was born through this program. irop.gramweb.net

Portable Clinic Kyushu University, GCC Portable Clinic aims to produce technologies to provide healthcare service to the doors of the unreached. The portable clinic is a health checkup booth or a box with necessary diagnostic tools. A certified nurse will collect FHR (Family Health Record) of each family in a village and upload them to a centralized database. The archive can be an invaluable source of information for the government, NGO, social development organizations to know the area based health situation and trends. ehealth.gramweb.net

Social Services on Wheels (SSW) Toyota, KU and GramWeb Social Services on Wheels (SSW) is an idea of mobile internet kiosk that carries a variety of ICT based social services which we call e-services. It is a joint project of Toyota, Kyushu University and GramWeb. This aims to create awareness of ICT based social services in unreached community and discover business opportunities in rural area using Nomadic (mobile) Internet Kiosk on vehicle. ssw.gramweb.net

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MPEP #8

KURT DASSEL AND HARVEY KOH

MONITOR DELOITTE

UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT (USAID)

JANUARY 23, 2014

Buoyed by the success of Safaricom’s M-PESA mobile money service in Kenya, the sister company, Vodacom Tanzania, launched its own service in 2008. Its initial performance was disappointing: the service had only signed up 280,000 users 14 months after launch; whereas the Kenya service had 2.7 million in the same amout of time. Fast forward to 2013: there are now over nine million active users, and transaction volumes are well over US$4 billion per year. Furthermore, mobile money penetration of the mobile subscriber base is now higher in Tanzania than it is in Kenya. Consumers’ transaction costs are also much lower because it’s a more competitive market. What changed? How did the industry scale up so significantly?

Back in Kenya, Kenya Tea Development Agency Holdings Ltd (KTDA) produces some of the finest tea in the world. Starting life as a parastatal in the 1960s, it has weathered decades of change and turmoil. Now, it's the second largest tea exporter in the world and a profitable company owned by nearly 600,000 smallholder growers. As a result, Kenyan tea smallholders earn over four times more per kilo than Tanzanian smallholders. But why, and how has KTDA succeeded where so many other contract farming initiatives have failed?

In this seminar, Kurt Dassel and Harvey Koh of Monitor Deloitte discussed how solutions like these can be scaled to reduce poverty. The seminar was a ‘sneak peek’ of an upcoming publication based on hundreds of interviews and field research in Asia and Africa.