Green Innovation Enterprises and Environmental Entrepreneurship for Poverty Alleviation in Kenya

Ngare, Innocent

doi:10.20944/preprints202105.0469.v1

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“…Some parts of Tehran, Iran, implement empowerment strategies through social entrepreneurship to lift marginalized people from poverty (Sadabadi and Rahimi Rad, 2021 ). Social entrepreneurship can contribute to 10% of the gross domestic product in Kenya (Ngare, 2021 ). South Korea and Malaysia can increase regional economic growth by creating jobs (Doh, 2020 ; Mustaffa et al, 2020 ).…”

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Scaling up social entrepreneurship to reduce poverty: Exploring the challenges and opportunities through stakeholder engagement

Setiawan¹,

Yuda

Susantyo³

et al. 2023

Front. Sociol.

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Scaling up social entrepreneurship to reduce poverty: Exploring the challenges and opportunities through stakeholder engagement

Setiawan¹,

Yuda

Susantyo³

et al. 2023

Front. Sociol.

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“…In Kenya, credit scoring for farmers is mainly carried out by commercial banks, insurance companies, the Agricultural Finance Corporation and some civil society organizations such as the Syngenta Foundation [9]; these organizations rely on the same 5Cs approach, to the detriment of smallholder farmers.…”

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Leveraging Geospatial Technology for Smallholder Farmer Credit Scoring

Okeyo,

Mulaku,

Mwange

2023

JGIS

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According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), there are about 500 million smallholder farmers in the world, and in developing countries, such farmers produce about 80% of the food consumed there; their farming activities are therefore critical to the economies of their countries and to the global food security. However, these farmers face the challenges of limited access to credit, often due to the fact that many of them farm on unregistered land that cannot be offered as collateral to lending institutions; but even when they are on registered land, the fear of losing such land that they should default on loan payments often prevents them from applying for farm credit; and even if they apply, they still get disadvantaged by low credit scores (a measure of creditworthiness). The result is that they are often unable to use optimal farm inputs such as fertilizer and good seeds among others. This depresses their yields, and in turn, has negative implications for the food security in their communities, and in the world, hence making it difficult for the UN to achieve its sustainable goal no.2 (no hunger). This study aimed to demonstrate how geospatial technology can be used to leverage farm credit scoring for the benefit of smallholder farmers. A survey was conducted within the study area to identify the smallholder farms and farmers. A sample of surveyed farmers was then subjected to credit scoring by machine learning. In the first instance, the traditional financial data approach was used and the results showed that over 40% of the farmers could not qualify for credit. When non-financial geospatial data, i.

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Institutionalized Social Entrepreneurship in Indonesia: A report on the challenges of state-driven social entrepreneurship promotion within the Five Cities' social assistance program

Yuda,

Setiawan,

Habibullah

et al. 2023

Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration

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Green Innovation Enterprises and Environmental Entrepreneurship for Poverty Alleviation in Kenya

Cited by 3 publications

References 32 publications

Scaling up social entrepreneurship to reduce poverty: Exploring the challenges and opportunities through stakeholder engagement

Scaling up social entrepreneurship to reduce poverty: Exploring the challenges and opportunities through stakeholder engagement

Leveraging Geospatial Technology for Smallholder Farmer Credit Scoring

Institutionalized Social Entrepreneurship in Indonesia: A report on the challenges of state-driven social entrepreneurship promotion within the Five Cities' social assistance program

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