Posts on the Topic "mobile applications"
Four Key Findings: Smallholder Farmer Use of Mobile Phones for Agriculture
22/09/2020
ICTWorks published a guest article that summarizes the research findings on Smallholder Farmers Use of Mobile Phones for Agriculture. The research was done in Kenya and examined the use of ‘m-services’ by farmers. The study-examined factors affecting the likelihood of Kenyan farmers’ adoption of m...
A spotlight on the FAO Digital Services Portfolio
11/06/2019
The FAO Digital Services Portfolio is a project that was started in November 2016 in Rulindo, Rwanda and Tambacounda, Senegal.The project included the development and distribution of 4 mobile applications to smallholder farmers. This project comes as a realisation that digital services are changing...
Winner of RFI’s Challenge App Africa announced
27/11/2018
Serge Auguste Zaonogo from Burkina Faso won the Radio France Internationale (RFI) Challenge App Africa for his invention ‘Saagga’ - an electronic mapping system that optimizes irrigation in the agricultural sector, permitting management while on-the-move. In a recent article, FAO noted that in...
Africa bets on technology to lure youth to farming
05/10/2018
Thomson Reuters Foundation profiles young farmers who have stayed on the farms despite a drift of young people from farming in Africa. According to the African Development Bank, Africa has the world’s youngest population with 60% of its 1.2 billion people under 25. Yet Africa’s young people are off...
Ugandan scientists to digitise agriculture chain with new apps
11/07/2018
The Ugandan National Agricultural Research Organization (NARO) has launched 3 mobile apps to facilitate access to information on agricultural research. The East African reports that Boniface Akuku, director for ICT at the Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization, helped Uganda develop...03/ 07
2018
How to collect data using a mobile data collection tool
03/07/2018
This webinar is intended to explain ( Wednesday, 4th July 2018, 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM GMT)
How farmers can use smartphones to make crop loss assessment
27/06/2018
Small holder farmers are increasingly being exposed to loss of crop due to climate related risks caused by climate change. In this light, Weather Based Crop Insurance Schemes (WBCIS) were created with an intention to provide protection to the farmers against adverse weather incidence. When a...
KARLO launches 14 mobile apps to transform agriculture
19/06/2018
During the East African Farmers Digital Conference, Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organisation (KARLO) launched 14 agribusiness apps to help farmers in making farming choices and decisions. This development comes as agricultural industry in Africa is experiencing a growth in technology...
SPORE Magazine focuses on ICT4Ag start-ups and many more
18/06/2018
The Issue No.189 of the SPORE magazine is now available and if focuses on the ICT4Ag start-ups as avenues to build better E-Agribusiness. Within the African, Caribbean and the Pacific countries young people have shown an enthusiasm for innovation in ICTs for Agriculture (ICT4Ag). There is a burning...