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Opportunity International launches Global Agriculture Finance Conference in Kampala
Global NGO Opportunity International on Tuesday launched its 2025 Global Agriculture Finance Conference, a three-day gathering of financial institutions, social impact investors, bilateral donors, practitioners, and researchers at Speke Resort Munyonyo.
Associated Press
How AI is helping some small-scale farmers weather a changing climate
Alex Maere survived the destruction of Cyclone Freddy when it tore through southern Malawi in 2023. His farm didn’t. The 59-year-old saw decades of work disappear with the precious soil that the floods stripped from his small-scale farm in the foothills of Mount Mulanje.
NilePost
Opportunity International US CEO Commits to Empowering Smallholder Farmers
Traditional savings groups, often referred to as Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLAs), face challenges in accessing formal financial institutions. Their operations are typically manual and tedious, leading to inefficiencies. With these challenges, Opportunity Bank has launched plans to digitise savings groups, particularly in rural communities, to enhance their customers’ access to financial services.
Daily Monitor - Uganda
Uganda second fastest-growing mobile money market in Sub-Saharan Africa, says BoU
The Bank of Uganda Governor, Dr. Michael Atingi-Ego, spoke at Opportunity International AgFinance's bi-annual summit on the value and needs of agriculture finance across Africa.
Time
Inside the New Nonprofit AI Initiatives Seeking to Aid Teachers and Farmers in Rural Africa
Over the past year, rural farmers in Malawi have been seeking advice about their crops and animals from a generative AI chatbot. These farmers ask questions in Chichewa, their native tongue, and the app, Ulangizi, responds in kind, using conversational language based on information taken from the government’s agricultural manual. “In the past we could wait for days for agriculture extension workers to come and address whatever problems we had on our farms,” Maron Galeta, a Malawian farmer, told Bloomberg. “Just a touch of a button we have all the information we need.”
Devex
The AI apps helping the world's low-income farmers work smarter
Christina Matsenga had a problem: her goat had stopped eating. The farmer from Ndodo, a village in Malawi’s Lilongwe district, knew a smartphone-based chatbot could help — even if she didn’t have a smartphone herself. Matsenga turned to an in-person farmer support agent who opened WhatsApp on her own smartphone, took photos of the goat, and sent them to a number linked to a chatbot called Ulangizi.
UBC
Governor Atingi-Ego Unveils Bold Vision to Revolutionize Agricultural Finance
In a stirring keynote address at Opportunity International’s Agriculture Finance Summit, Michael Atingi-Ego, Governor of the Bank of Uganda, laid out a transformative blueprint to overhaul agricultural finance under the theme “Propagate.” Speaking to a diverse audience of CEOs, innovators, farmers, and development partners, Atingi-Ego framed agriculture as both a casualty of climate change and a cornerstone for economic resilience, urging immediate action to empower smallholder farmers through digital innovation, climate-smart finance, sustainable technologies, and robust market systems.