The digital platform eVuna has the capacity to connect farmers in the most rural parts of Africa to a range of service and product providers, including input finance, GAP advisory, insurers and buyers that are ordinarily faced with challenges in engaging and trading with this segment at scale. The net effect is that productivity, yields, and income rise for all players in this digitally enhanced ecosystem.

eVuna has also empowered youth via digital literacy, enabling them to utilise the eVuna application to venture into entrepreneurial activities such as marketing services to potential farmers, farmer onboarding & profiling as well as offtake aggregation for market linkage. The best performers in the eVuna agent network were young women.

Agriculture is a critically important sector in Africa, responsible for 1/5th of the continent’s GDP and almost 60% of its employment. 250 million smallholder farmers drive food security in most African nations but less than 15% of these farmers have access to information that can significantly improve productivity yields and income.

eVuna supports African food security by supporting farmers in the face of global challenges such as climate change, water scarcity, crop and livestock disease and post-harvest losses. In the last year, farmers on eVuna have utilised more than a million dollars of capital provided through the platform, increasing their yields by 80% and generating a $600 uplift in revenue per farmer."

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• Kenya
• South Africa
• Uganda
• United Republic of Tanzania

• Remote and rural communities
• farmer

"eVuna is the partner of choice to reach millions of farmers in sub-saharan Africa region. With a growing farmer database, eVuna offers potential partners access to offer their services to these farmers. As multiple players in the agri sector come together through a unified platform, scale is inevitable. Farmers will benefit from the above model through different services being available to them.

Through the eVouchering capability, over 3.2 million farmers in KE have benefitted from the government subsidy program giving them the ability to participate in more farming activity than before. eVuna is on course to launch in Ghana by 2024 and Ethiopia is on the roadmap."

"More than 100,000 East African farmers are directly registered as part of the eVuna community and 2.7 million are registered on the platform through strategic partners. The platform has the capacity to connect farmers in the most rural parts of Africa. eVuna is one of the fastest-growing agritech platforms in Africa and has seen registered small-holder farmers on the platform double. The platform has been developed through Vodacom’s subsidiary Mezzanine. A farmer is registered on the platform and vetting is provided by specialist field agents (eg. MNOs). Access to credit and insurance is immediately available and farmers have the option to buy inputs and crops. This process is supported by the Mezzanine eVouchering solution supports input providers with marketing and access. Learning opportunities and support are available for users of the platform."