A Transparent, Easy Way for Smallholder Farmers to Save | Anushka Ratnayake | TED

A safe space to save money is life-changing -- especially for the 60 million smallholder farmers in West Africa (the majority being women) who often live on less than two dollars a day. Poverty fighter Anushka Ratnayake introduces her non-profit myAgro, which offers farmers a place to save small amounts of money and allows them to access those funds as they need them. Over the next five years, myAgro plans to reach a million farmers in West Africa, providing a stress-free, transparent and convenient system that empowers agricultural entrepreneurs by putting the purchasing power it takes to run a successful farm in their hands.

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[GetYourLifeBetter]

One of my favorite talks so far! I love The way she conveys her messages, and how she speaks slowly but shaped. What an immersive speech!

[tomriddle]

Hey Anushka🇱🇰 .. Amazing speech.. Glad to hear a Srilankan name in TED space.
In 🇱🇰 my country farmers are suffering. Government and the officials ruined our agriculture.
You are a great asset to our country.
I wish you can educate our people and extend your agrocredit program in our country too.

[rhenz]

Spread Love & Peace from the Philippines 🇵🇭🕊️

[sunnyinvladivostok]

Sra Anushka,
You've done amazing work in helping these people advance their lives and those of their posterity. Thank you!
One question I thought of, however, is: how will a farmer, who can only save cents, be able to afford a smartphone? In the examples, it sounds like they were given a phone, meaning these activities are heavily subsidized. So, will the amount that farmers can save as an outcome of this exceed the investment that goes into the program? If not, perhaps we should also be considering alternative approaches to raising their quality of life. But if so, well done!!
Anyway, in any case its problem better not to listen to an armchair nobody like myself. Thanks for getting up and actually doing something to help these people, its so valuable.

[emmanueljohn]

Hello
Anybody need help with their assignment ?

[ernestodialogo]

Yes PH 💙 is Power 🔋 make sure ALL the 🌎 Question my ❤ Salute 🌹🐱🦋🐦😇😇?

[VulcanOnWheels]

I'm happy for all the people who made the progress they did, but why did they even need money? Please check out The Venus Project.

[freelancerthoughts]

Amazing speech 💬 easily understand I'm content creator on YouTube

[banowilliams]

Jesus loves you he died on the cross for your sins. Believe in him and you will be saved and go to heaven!

[scarlettzoe]

My life has totally changed since I started an investment of $ 6, 000 and now earning over $ 57, 000.

[janosik]

Why the always compare living to USA 2 dollars a day...it doesn't make no bread is 5$ there bread it 2cents....what they have to make 100$ per day and still pay for bread 2 cents...it is ficken annoying....low intelligence....

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[GaasubaMeskhenet]

so many different idiots racing for space while they could be racing to solve this kind of problem and leave the space experts to colab at NASA and such

[ФёдорУрусов-дж]

judging by her size, it's clear why she wants to help farmers produce more food xD