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🗓️ 20 June 2024
⏱️ 19 minutes
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0:00.0 | Small scale farmers need the latest information and tech to grow their business. |
0:09.2 | How one entrepreneur is helping them get it in their native languages. |
0:14.0 | Think of a Siri and Charles JPT for rural populations. |
0:18.0 | Using their language basically connects them to their ancestors, |
0:22.0 | it connects them to the ancestors. It connects them to their history. |
0:24.0 | Supporting small-scale farmers in Africa with new solutions being applied worldwide. |
0:32.0 | They want to create wealth just like anybody else. |
0:35.0 | I'm Nailaboodoo and for Maxios this is one big thing. climate change, inflation and unreliable supply chains. |
0:50.0 | Those are just some of the challenges small-scale farmers globally are facing today. |
0:55.0 | Aloisius Ata grew up on a farm in Ghana and has seen it all firsthand. |
1:00.0 | And as new tech and farming and AI have opened up lots of possibilities for |
1:05.1 | farmers, he saw a basic gap that had to first be closed before they could take |
1:10.0 | advantage. Language. It is a difference between a farmer actually understanding what |
1:15.4 | they are being taught and actually applying it. Today his organization Farmer |
1:20.0 | Line is trying to help farmers across the world get the information and resources not |
1:25.5 | just to stay afloat but to thrive. |
1:27.9 | Farmer line is a digital marketplace for small-skill farmers so you can think of it |
1:32.1 | like Amazon for farmers. We help |
1:34.0 | farmers to grow food, we help them to sell food, and we help them to make more |
1:37.1 | money. Starting in Africa, Farmer Line today now works with more than 2.2 |
1:41.9 | million farmers and reaches more than 50 countries. |
1:46.0 | I first met Aloysha at COP28, the Climate Change Conference in Dubai late last year. |
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