Social Issue

Many farmers in Mali, Senegal, and Tanzania survive on their crops, and their seasonal income is less than a dollar and a half a day. Their situation does not allow them to buy quality seeds to improve the performance of their crops.

Low profits also mean that they have to continue to use outdated and inefficient farming methods due to their inability to acquire adequate tools.

This fact leaves them in a situation of extreme poverty in which for two or three months a year they live with food shortages, which causes serious malnutrition problems.

Our Response

We collaborate with MyAgro Farms, a non-profit company registered in the USA and operating in Mali, Senegal and Tanzania. Its objective is to offer small farmers a savings plan to improve their productivity.

Through a mobile application designed by the company itself, farmers can buy quality seeds, fertilizers, and agricultural tools over a period of nine months before planting, and also receive technical training.

Likewise, MyAgro agents work together with the farmers at the time of planting and harvesting to be able to advise them at all times.

Expected Social Impact

The main indicator to measure its impact is to calculate the increase in additional income that farmers have achieved using myAgro services.

For the 2020 crop, farmers grew 78% more and earned $174 more in net income than control farmers. This impressive increase compared to last year ($110) has also been possible thanks to the combination of good rains in all countries and the ability of MyAgro to ensure that farmers received their inputs before these, despite the mobility restrictions due to COVID-19.

It is estimated, according to the methodology used by the Netri Foundation, that more than 6,800 farmers attended MyAgro services in 2020 thanks to this investment.