Posts on the Topic "market access"
How digital technologies can help Africa’s smallholder farmers
29/07/2019
By Abdul-Rahim Abdulai, Emily Duncan and Evan Fraser Digitisation could change the game for agriculture in Africa. That’s a key message in a report recently released by an international institution that enhances smallholder farming in African, Caribbean and Pacific countries. The Centre for...
Egypt turns to FAO for digital transformation in agriculture
23/07/2019
The following news was published by Watani International and is shared for information purposes. CAIRO, 22 July 2019. The Food and Agriculture organization of the UN has launched in Egypt a digital model of agricultural extension to enhance agricultural productivity. The move comes within the...
‘WorldBank Group to support Africa’s digital transformation’
20/03/2019
In an opinion piece on CNN Business, the WorldBank Group CEO and interim presidents noted that automation and artificial intelligence (and other disruptive technologies) could revolutionize the industrialized world, and with great potential to the developing world. O n her tweeter account, Ms...
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...14/ 11
2018
Successes and Lessons: Scaling Financial Services to Kenya’s Smallholder Farmers
Nairobi, Kiribati 14/11/2018
A one-size-fits-all approach to agricultural finance and insufficient resources make it difficult for smallholder farmers to become profitable, despite the pivotal role they play in agricultural production.
Over the last four years, Grameen Foundation and Musoni Microfinance Kenya have built a successful digital lending platform that has provided millions in funding to help farmers improve their productivity.
WFP and Alibaba enter into a partnership towards a World with Zero Hunger
05/11/2018
The partnership will support efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2 – a world with zero hunger. Alibaba and The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) have entered into a strategic partnership to achieve a world with zero hunger – which is Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2...
The role of technology in Food Sovereignty: Part 1
23/10/2018
by Olaitan Ogunnote & Raimot Adewunmi - Undergraduate Research Assistants, ECV Ontario, SEDRD, University of Guelph Introduction While we might not yet be able to live on our red monochromatic, moon-like planetary counterpart, Mars, we could make our stay on the bright bluish-green Earth with hints...
ICT Update focuses on Blockchain applications for Agriculture
03/09/2018
Blockchain or distributed ledger technologies are relatively new technologies and have been adopted in a number of sectors. The recent ICT update explains what blockchains are and their applications in agriculture. The most appealing aspect of this technology is its focus on trust, transparency of...
In-house collaboration to increase access to market prices and climate risk information for small potato farmers in Rwanda through ICTs
25/07/2018
Image credit: FAO/ART Project In Rwanda, one main constraint limiting the development of the potato value chain is related to a lack of reliable information on the prices of potatoes and quantities available in the market which makes forecasting costs of processors difficult, a constraint which is...