Posts on the Country "Kenya"
Agro-Weather Tool for Climate Smart Agriculture
15/06/2018
A promising practice on the use of ICTs in weather-data for farmers Many small holder farmers in developing countries have faced huge challenges as a result of climate change induced weather effects. Most of these farmers rely on traditional methods to understand weather predictions. Localised...29/ 05
2018
31/ 05
2018
East African Digital Farmers Conference and Exhibition 2018
Nairobi, Kenya 29/05/2018 – 31/05/2018
The regional conference seeks to help farmers and other value chain actors to harness the benefits of technology and data, and drive the adoption of these digital tools by farmers. It bring together end users, service providers, disseminators, regulators, policy formulators, and technology developers of ICT solutions in the agricultural sector for the region.
29/ 05
2018
31/ 05
2018
The East African Digital Farmers Conference and Exhibition 2018 (EADFC)
Nairobi, Kenya 29/05/2018 – 31/05/2018
The regional conference seeks to help farmers and other value chain actors to harness the benefits of technology and data, and drive the adoption of these digital tools by farmers. It bring together end users, service providers, disseminators, regulators, policy formulators, and technology developers of ICT solutions in the agricultural sector for the region.
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15/ 05
2018
16/ 05
2018
Africa Climate Smart Agriculture Summit
Nairobi, Kenya 15/05/2018 – 16/05/2018
The purpose of the Africa Climate Smart Agriculture Summit is to provide an opportunity for cross-sector networking and knowledge exchange within climate smart agriculture in Africa. The following stakeholders, regional governments and policy makers, private sector and research organisations, UN agencies and civil society will meet to debate a number of issues. One of the key issues on the agenda includes ICT for agri and mAgri innovations how they can support farmers through technology, data collection, and sharing among actors.
02/ 03
2018
Nairobi Mapathon
Kenya 02/03/2018
On 3rd March, 2018 is 7th International Open Data Day. In cities around the world, citizens will come together to discuss issues and find ways they can help by building applications and data visualizations using open data. KALRO through the CODATA ATG team have organized an “Open Mapathon
25/ 04
2018
East Africa Digital Conference & Exhibition
Kenya 25/04/2018
Kenya Agricultural & Livestock Research Organization and partners are organizing the East African Digital Farmers Conference. The conference will run from the 25 -27th of April 2018, at the Kenya Agriculture & Livestock Research Organization (KALRO) grounds in Nairobi, Kenya.
Image credit: Karlo and partners
06/ 03
2018
Africa Climate Smart Agriculture Summit
Nairobi, Kenya 06/03/2018
The objective of the Africa Climate Smart Agriculture Summit is to provide an opportunity for cross-sector networking and knowledge exchange that is competent and neutral, technical and commercial by bringing together all stakeholders, including regional governments and policy makers, private sector and research organisations, UN agencies and civil society...Read more-- (source event page).
Satellite Monitoring: An Innovative Solution for Water Management
26/09/2017
In Kenya, in the region of Turkana County, a severe drought is threatening people's livelihoods and livestock. Agricultural production is close to none as the rainy season going from March to June remained a vain hope. The nearest borehole is sometimes walking days away and not all of the population...28/ 08
2017