by The Fikiria Desk | Mar 12, 2026 | Farming
Rwanda’s fintech story is usually told in the cities, yet most of the country’s economic weight still sits on farms and in the sheds where crops are cleaned, dried and stored. That gap between where finance convenes and where value is produced is the real...
by The Fikiria Desk | Mar 26, 2025 | Farming
Somalia exports livestock to the Gulf in numbers that rank it among the world’s largest, yet the farmer at the origin of that trade has often been the last person in the chain to touch reliable money. Value moved through cash, brokers and closed mobile wallets...
by The Fikiria Desk | Jan 10, 2025 | Farming
Ethiopia’s wealth grows in its fields — coffee, cereals, oilseeds, livestock — yet the finance that could modernise those fields has rarely flowed through open, priced markets. Farmers borrow short and dear, processors run below capacity, and much of the value...
by The Fikiria Desk | Sep 9, 2024 | Farming
Rwanda grows more food than its own statistics of hunger and import bills would suggest is possible, and loses much of the difference between the field and the market. That gap, high production ambition against thin storage, processing and rural finance, is the real...
by The Fikiria Desk | Jul 29, 2024 | Farming
The farmer earns in a currency the world does not want and buys inputs priced as if it did — the oldest squeeze in African agriculture. Ethiopia’s move on 29 July 2024 to a market-based foreign-exchange regime, announced by the National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE),...