FarmDrive: Canadian engineers help FarmDrive expand smallholder farmer lending in Africa

ImpactAlpha, February 4 - The Toronto-based arm of Engineers Without Borders has invested an undisclosed amount in Kenyan startup FarmDrive, which offers digital loans to smallholder farmers. FarmDrive launched in 2014 to support Africa's 43 million smallholder farmers-60% of whom are women-without access to financial services. FarmDrive's digital lending platform issues small loans in theThe post Canadian engineers help FarmDrive expand smallholder farmer lending in Africa appeared first on ImpactAlpha.