This is a summary of a paper by Amani M’Bale, Rashmi Pillai and Nathan Were; published by CGAP (Consultative Group to Assist the Poor) and UNCDF; June 2018; 40 pages; available at
https://www.cgap.org/sites/default/files/researches/documents/Working-Paper-Digitizing-Agricultural-Payments-June-2018.pdf
This paper focuses on the digitization of payments in Uganda for the coffee industry, which accounts for 20 percent of the country’s GDP. Mobile Money for the Poor (MM4P), a program of the UN Capital Development Fund (UNCDF), worked with Ugandan