{"id":8717,"date":"2019-01-04T16:29:31","date_gmt":"2019-01-04T16:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/uk\/?p=8717"},"modified":"2019-01-04T16:39:57","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T16:39:57","slug":"trutrade-innovation-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/uk\/trutrade-innovation-award\/","title":{"rendered":"TruTrade receives innovation award"},"content":{"rendered":"
Self Help Africa\u2019s inventive new farmers trading platform TruTrade has been presented with a prestigious award for innovation.<\/p>\n
The creative approach taken by TruTrade to connecting rural poor farmers with profitable markets was presented with the 2018 \u2018Dochas Innovation in Development Award,\u2019 at a prize-giving ceremony in Dublin, last month.<\/p>\n
The social enterprise, which operates mainly in Kenya and Uganda, acts as a trading platform, linking farmers to the market and providing them with a better price for their crops. The platform aims to turn small farms into profitable businesses for thousands of poor farmers in rural Africa.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re delighted with the award,\u201d said TruTrade CEO Jenny Rafanamezana. \u201cIt\u2019s a recognition from our peers that we\u2019re making real progress in bringing increased value to smallholder producers by making rural trading more efficient.\u201d<\/p>\n
Indeed, on average, farmers in Uganda and Kenya have seen their income from the sale of their crops increase by 15% in 2018, across 12 commodities ranging from soy and sesame to cassava and avocado.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re looking forward to helping more farmers in 2019, as well as continuing to develop out this digital platform to offer more services to smallholder farmers,\u201d concluded Jenny Rafanamezana.<\/p>\n
Read Agnes\u2019 story<\/a> to find out more about the work of TruTrade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Self Help Africa\u2019s inventive new farmers trading platform TruTrade has been presented with a prestigious award for innovation.<\/p>\n Read More<\/a>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8293,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[686,700,681,637],"tags":[76,135,153,173,136,479,209,789],"yoast_head":"\n