Farmer Connect: Improving Farmers' Access to Produce Markets (opens in new tab)

Smallholder maize farmers in Uganda continue to face limited market access, weak bargaining power, low price transparency, and heavy reliance on intermediaries. These challenges are compounded by poor produce coordination, delayed payments, and weak visibility into cooperative transactions. This paper presents Farmer Connect, a cooperative-based digital platform designed to support produce management, marketplace coordination, and transparent ...