Unlike informal agents and government or donor-funded extension workers, agent networks are clusters of third-party and often semi-independent micro-entrepreneurs that are organised around the last or middle-mile delivery of a product or service. Using “agents” to deliver basic agricultural support to farmers is not a new invention. But these agricultural agents were mostly paid government officers or contract-based employees working as part of time-limited and donor-funded interventions. Another set of historical agents in Africa have been the loosely organised group of middle-men. These typically informal agents sit along the value-chain and aggregate produce in remote villages, supply input, and facilitate…