Knowledge Transfer Africa - Emkambo

Knowledge Transfer Africa(KTA)(Pvt) Ltd is a Zimbabwe knowledge brokering organization.Working in agriculture and rural development, we focus on awakening people and organisations to diverse ways of connecting and sharing knowledge.Our approach includes matching the demand fo and supply of knowledge as well as creating synergies between various actors in innovation systems.KTA's flagship initiative is known as eMKambo-an interactive mobile, physical and web-based for agriculture and rural development integrating the use of mobile phones and the internet to create,adapt and share knowledge.The word Mkambo refers to market in isiNdebele language.It has the same connotation in the shona language though in shona, the word musika commonly refers to the market.Major eMKambo activities are: 1.Building sustainable networks among traders, farmers, food chain stores, input suppliers and agro delears 2.Providing technical assistance, training, advice on financial literacy, business and market intelligence 3.Facilitating loan access to agricultural value chain actors 4.Crafting sustainable business models inclusive of best practices from "informal" agriculture traders 5.Influencing policy in favour of marginalized value chain actors eMKambo facets: 1.A mobile Short Message Service for agriculture value chain actors, riding on the proliferation of mobile phone services among farmers and other actors 2.A web-based market providing information on all agriculture commodities, including commodity prices, inputs and other services 3.eMKambo perishable finance model through which financial institutions can finance agriculture based on solid evidence from the market