Who says that bitcoin has got nothing to do with farmers?
It has got everything to do with our everyday lives ok.
Bitcoin is Improving Lives of Women Farmers in Zimbabwe
This article is part of an ongoing series called Across Africa with Bitcoin, detailing the writer’s current journey in exploring financial inclusion through Bitcoin in multiple countries across Africa.
Bitcoin keeps changing lives around the world, and Africa is no exception. One of the difficult economic processes here in my continent is getting access to credit.
How do you have access to credit when you don’t even have a bank account? The answer is not far-fetched. The situation is worse when vulnerable people like the poor and women are involved.
According to the Zimbabwe Independent Newspaper, 73 percent of people living in rural Zimbabwe are poor. In fact, 30 percent of the above figure are food poor or extremely poor.
The reality is that most of these rural folks eke out a living tilling the land. A few are in fact, being able to mechanise their operations in other to make farming activities commercial.
Bitcoin Loans
This is where BitMari, a Zimbabwe-based organisation and……
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