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ALIN New Approach to African Farmers Learning

Maarifa centre in Kenya

An article written by Maina Wararu for the New Agriculturist describes a profound new way for farmers to sell their goods in Africa. In Ng’arua, a remote village in Kenya’s Rift Valley province, smallscale farmers may now sell their produce directly through e-marketing. Thanks to the use of internet technology, farmers in this semi-arid region, some 350 kms north west of the capital Nairobi, are now cutting out the middlemen and selling their maize to the highest bidder. This is thanks to Sokopepe, an online commodity marketing platform developed by the Arid Lands Information Network (ALIN), an NGO working in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.

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