Driving Financial Inclusion for Smallholder Farmers by Leveraging Satellite Data and Machine Learning
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Recording Abstract There are an estimated 500 million smallholder farmers in the world. Only 7% have access to financing for inputs like improve seeds, fertilizer or tools. The lack of financial access is primarily due to the lack of a formal credit profile of farmers and the cost of developing one...