Applications are open for the GSMA Innovation Fund for Digitisation of Agricultural Value Chains. The GSMA Innovation Fund for Digitisation of Agricultural Value Chains aims to scale digital solutions for the agricultural last mile and improve smallholders’ financial inclusion, livelihood, and climate resilience. The Fund prioritizes enterprise services targeted at organizations (e.g. agribusiness, cooperatives, etc.) procuring from smallholders with the focus on those living on less than USD 2 per day.
Moreover, All eligible applicants at Concept Note stage, irrespective of whether they ultimately receive a grant under this Innovation Fund, will be invited to join the GSMA AgriTech Priority Learning Partners Initiative, where they will gain access to knowledge sharing resources and events, including webinars on the topic of enterprise solutions for the last mile.

Benefit

• Up to eight grants of £220,000 each are being made available to support projects of 24 months duration
• In addition, the GSMA will provide in-kind support and consultancy to assist the development of business plans, and service implementation through market research, also, user-centric design, business intelligence, user-testing with agribusiness staff and smallholders

Eligibility

Mobile Money-Driven category

Open to mobile money providers in partnership with AgriTech vendors who are developing, implementing, launching and/ or scaling enterprise services (B2B2C) which digitize the agricultural last mile procurement and communication with smallholders.
The proposed development or evolution of an enterprise service must include the following primary use-cases:

• procurement records and smallholder farmer profiles (static and dynamic information);
• Digitizing payments to smallholder farmers via mobile money;
• Digitizing communication and providing advisory services for smallholder farmers.

Data-driven category

Open to AgriTech organizations who have already scaled the last mile agriculture digitization service and established a model for generating digital farmer records and explored linking farmer records with financial service providers. The proposed evolution of these services must include the following primary use-cases:

• Digitizing procurement records and smallholder farmer profiles (static and dynamic information) at a
  the scale of at least 50,000 farmers in the proposed market;
• Further, Using existing deployment data and digital records of smallholder farmers to provide financial inclusion
  services through partnerships with third-party organizations;
• Digitizing communication and providing advisory services for smallholder farmers.