Digital Agriculture In Fao Projects In Sub Saharan Africa

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-14
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789251386095

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Digital agriculture in FAO projects in sub-Saharan Africa by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Pdf

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is spearheading efforts to leverage digitalization for sustainable agrifood systems. This publication provides a roadmap for accelerating the adoption of impactful digital solutions across the Africa region. With Wageningen University and Research (WUR), the publication offers an in-depth exploration of the current landscape of FAO’s digital agriculture interventions across sub-Saharan Africa, dissecting key projects and their impact on crop production, risk reduction, and value chain enhancement. Through an extensive survey and analysis of 72 projects spanning various agricultural subsectors, the publication sheds light on the prevalence of digital tools in enhancing crop production and livestock management, and on the disparities in digital adoption across different subregions. The publication underscores the critical role of digital literacy and infrastructure in driving the success of digital agriculture initiatives, emphasizing the imperative of inclusivity. It also highlights the need for fostering awareness, building capacity, and advocating for improved digital access and governance to unlock the full potential of digital solutions for Africa. Among the key findings are the predominant use of simpler digital technologies such as mobile applications and SMS services, signalling the importance of user-friendly solutions tailored to the needs of farmers. However, it also underscores the necessity of embracing more advanced technologies to address complex challenges such as climate resilience and supply chain management.

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations,International Telecommunication Union
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789251354537

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Status of digital agriculture in 47 sub-Saharan African countries by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations,International Telecommunication Union Pdf

Sub-Saharan Africa is uniquely positioned significantly increase its current agricultural productivity to lift the region’s more than 400 million people out of extreme poverty and improve the livelihood of approximately 250 million smallholder farmers and pastoralists in the region. To achieve that, substantive digital transformation of the agriculture sector is required through improved infrastructure and increased access to and use of digital technologies for agriculture. To improve the current understanding of sub-Saharan Africa’s digital agriculture landscape, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) undertook this study in 47 countries. The report is composed of 47 desk-based country case studies against six thematic focal areas, the aim of which is to present a snapshot of the status of digital agriculture in each country. This is followed by highlights of the main findings of the analysis of the country profiles with suggested steps for future action. The findings of the study are presented to FAO and ITU Member States, as well as all relevant stakeholders with the purpose of advancing and supporting investment in digital transformation of the agricultural sector in sub-Saharan Africa.

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789251315460

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Digital technologies in agriculture and rural areas by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Pdf

This report aims to identify the different scenarios where the process of digital transformation is taking place in agriculture. This identifies those aspects of basic conditions, such as those of infrastructure and networks, affordability, education and institutional support. In addition, enablers are identified, which are the factors that allow adopting and integrating changes in the production and decision-making processes. Finally identify through cases, existing literature and reports how substantive changes are taking place in the adoption of digital technologies in agriculture.

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2024-03-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789251385456

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Transforming rural Africa by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Pdf

The UN Decade of Family Farming (2019-2028) acknowledges the importance of inclusive rural communication services (RCS) to advance economic, environmental and social dimensions of family farming. Focusing on Africa, this study examines the role of RCS in rural transformation and family farming and provides insights for the region. Through case studies and a review of media and ICT trends and policies, it highlights the need for participatory, farmer-centred communication approaches and responsive delivery mechanisms aligned with local socioeconomic realities. The study concludes with recommendations for embedding RCS into national policies, thereby opening new development opportunities for family farmers and rural communities in the Africa region.

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789251357064

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Digital innovation strategy for agrifood systems in Africa by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Pdf

Achieving Zero Hunger, defeating poverty and accelerating sustainable inclusive growth are key objectives pursued by the African continent, particularly in the framework of the UN Agenda 2030 and the African Union Agenda 2063. However, the region has been facing persistent challenges resulting in high levels of food and nutrition insecurity, rampant poverty, environmental threats, underperformance of the agrifood sector, unemployment and under-employment for young (male and female) people, especially in rural areas. Addressing the challenges and seizing the available opportunities require news skills, capabilities and product development, which notably involves strongly anchoring digital technologies in all business processes. Falling costs of digital technologies and their popularisation are driving innovations to develop solutions to improve the productivity, incomes and resilience of farmers and food systems. This includes the building of more adaptive and agile value chains through use of data, leveraging the power of satellite observation and geodata to address pest and disease threats; the development of novel solutions for supporting farmers’ social protection; and the enhancement of traceability systems applied to food products from farm to fork. The COVID-19 impacts have demonstrated even more the need to mainstream digital solutions in agrifood business, policy and development programme implementation processes

Author : International Telecommunication Union (ITU),Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789251328897

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Status of Digital Agriculture in 18 countries of Europe and Central Asia by International Telecommunication Union (ITU),Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Pdf

Digital agriculture has the potential to contribute to a more economically, environmentally and socially sustainable agriculture and meet the agricultural goals of a country or a region more effectively, and both ICTs and agriculture are important enablers in achieving SDGs. Most stakeholders have long recognized the need for national e-agricultural strategies. Nevertheless, most of the countries have not yet implemented a national strategy for the agricultural sector's use of ICTs. ITU Offices for Europe and CIS regions in collaboration with FAO Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia developed this report on state of Digital Agriculture and Strategies developed in 18 countries. The emerging role of ICTs in Europe and CIS region is clearly observed and experienced as an engine for agricultural development, especially in view of the growing demand for reliable information and its quick access at all levels of the industry. The state of the digital agriculture ecosystem differs from country to country and is also fragmented by the regions, within the individual countries. There is an overwhelming wave of innovation in this area where a digital agriculture strategy can be helpful in finding the right path.

Author : Tsan, Michael,Totapally, Swetha,Hailu, Michael,Addom, Benjamin K.
Publisher : CTA
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-30
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789290816577

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The Digitalisation of African Agriculture Report 2018–2019 by Tsan, Michael,Totapally, Swetha,Hailu, Michael,Addom, Benjamin K. Pdf

An inclusive, digitally-enabled agricultural transformation could help achieve meaningful livelihood improvements for Africa’s smallholder farmers and pastoralists. It could drive greater engagement in agriculture from women and youth and create employment opportunities along the value chain. At CTA we staked a claim on this power of digitalisation to more systematically transform agriculture early on. Digitalisation, focusing on not individual ICTs but the application of these technologies to entire value chains, is a theme that cuts across all of our work. In youth entrepreneurship, we are fostering a new breed of young ICT ‘agripreneurs’. In climate-smart agriculture multiple projects provide information that can help towards building resilience for smallholder farmers. And in women empowerment we are supporting digital platforms to drive greater inclusion for women entrepreneurs in agricultural value chains.

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations 
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789251378885

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Pilot Digital Villages Initiative in Africa by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations  Pdf

The Digital Villages Initiative (DVI) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is a corporate programme aiming to combat hunger, poverty and inequality by fostering digital rural transformation. This is being carried out through the establishment of, or support to 1 000 smart rural villages supplied with the digital services needed for agrifood systems and rural transformation to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The DVI supports the FAO Strategic Framework 2022–2031, which responds to key global challenges, including those engendered by COVID-19, “a global crisis, which highlighted the critical mandate of FAO to ensure functioning and sustainable agrifood systems that allow for sufficient production and consumption of food” (FAO, 2021). The programme is being implemented in various regions of the world, including Africa. In sub-Africa, it is led by the Regional Office for Africa (RAF) of FAO and is being deployed on a pilot basis in a few countries. Lessons learned will be shared while opportunities for scaling up/replication in other countries will be explored. A call for expressions of interest was made to identify which countries were interested in participating in the initiative. Seven countries responded positively and have been preselected to be part of the initial pilot: Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal and Somalia.

Author : Melvyn Kay
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9251045941

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Smallholder Irrigation Technology by Melvyn Kay Pdf

This report is a view of irrigation technologies for smallholders in the context of improving rural livelihoods, especially in regard to the prospects for sub-Saharan Africa. The role of traditional technologies is evaluated and modern water distribution technologies, such as sprinkler and trickle irrigation, are reviewed. A broad classification has been made based on climate and the traditional agricultural background of the local people, which links technology options to specific places--to agricultural regions and to countries.

Author : International Association of Research Scholars and Fellows. Symposium
Publisher : IITA
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Africa, Sub-Saharan
ISBN : 9789781312984

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Facing Up to Food Crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa by International Association of Research Scholars and Fellows. Symposium Pdf

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-09
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781853399411

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Smallholder Agriculture and Market Participation by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Pdf

Smallholder Agriculture and Market Participation discusses the evolution of policies for smallholder development, including the role of value chains, and the linkages that exist with the Sustainable Development Goals. New, innovative financial mechanisms and linked initiatives are outlined, and their potential to improve the availability of financial services and reduce market transaction costs. Risk management for agricultural smallholders is covered, together with the increasing role of insura nce as a mechanism for risk management among smallholders. Empirical data are used to illustrate the more conceptual work. The last part of the book provides case studies of selected commodity value chain investments involving smallholders in Africa (Ethiopia, Tanzania and Zimbabwe) and South America (Peru), implemented by FAO. The lessons concern project design and targeting, product and market analysis, regulatory issues, sustainability and improved natural resources management.

Author : Stephen Devereux,Simon Maxwell
Publisher : ITDG Publishing
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110194953

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Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa by Stephen Devereux,Simon Maxwell Pdf

Most contributions reflect an evolution of thinking during the 1990s.

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations ,International Telecommunication Union
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-20
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789251377093

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Digital excellence in agriculture report by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations ,International Telecommunication Union Pdf

This report is the outcome of the Digital Excellence in Agriculture: FAO-ITU regional contest on good practices advancing digital agriculture in Europe and Central Asia, organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Office for Europe and Central Asia and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Offices for Europe and Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). Launched in November 2020, the contest sought to identify, showcase and celebrate good practices and innovative solutions that have proven successful in advancing the digital transformation of agriculture in the regions. With nearly 200 applicants from 36 countries in the regions, the initiative revealed a diverse, dynamic and future-thinking ecosystem of innovators and problem-solvers. This report summarizes the main trends in digital services and products, the most important technologies used, as well as the difficulties and challenges that arise in the development of digital agricultural applications. Presenting the 29 finalists, the report shares the key challenges applicants are addressing, the digital technologies they are using to succeed, their journeys and their plans for the near future based on the information provided. The report also analyses how the technology infrastructure, the regulatory and business environment, the availability of human capital, and the COVID-19 pandemic represented both challenges and opportunities for digital agriculture practitioners. It provides useful information for developers and service providers already active in this field or planning to enter it, as well as guidance for decision-makers on possible points of intervention.

Author : Todd S. Rosenstock
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Climate change mitigation
ISBN : 9251086133

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Science to Support Climate-smart Agricultural Development by Todd S. Rosenstock Pdf

This document reports on the concepts driving the scientific activities of FAO's Mitigation of Climate Change in Agriculture Program's (MICCA) pilot projects in East Africa. It provides results from the research, briefly describes the analytical approaches used and concludes with key messages relevant to discussions on climate-smart agriculture (CSA). The MICCA pilot projects aim to help mainstream CSA in the region by identifying, verifying and scaling up farm management practices that can both increase productivity and set smallholder farmers on a pathway toward emitting fewer greenhouse gases (GHGs) per unit of produce, where possible. As there are many unknowns about what farming approaches are best for reaching CSA's multiple objectives, the underlying premise of the MICCA pilot projects is that strong linkages between science and development are essential to the expansion of CSA in developing countries. The scientific approach that was followed permits a few general messages and suggestions for future efforts on "research to inform policy" that are aimed at quantifying the parameters of potential CSA practices and their implications at nested scales.

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-15
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789251316597

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E-agriculture in action by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Pdf

According to Forbes, we generate almost 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every day. The next generation of agriculture heavily depends on data. The ability to capture, sort, analyze and extract actionable intelligence from large data sets to reveal patterns (human, climate, market) and related trends is an important emerging field. The increase in the use of Internet of Things (IoT) devices would only add to this data deluge. The Economist rightly called data as the world’s most valuable resource , while some calling data the new oil . Agriculture would be one of the major users of IoTs. How can individuals, organizations and governments build capacities and processes in place to take advantage of this huge influx of data. This coupled with existing data streams (weather, satellite imagery, markets etc.,) would create an ecosystem which if managed efficiently would provide rich dividents especially in the agriculture sector where the right information at the right time will make a great influence in the livelihoods of people involved in agriculture and allied activities. This publication looks at how various initiatives are leveraging data, related to agriculture value chains, to influence decision making and efficient service delivery together with addressing key building blocks such as interoperability, data sharing, data security and the necessary policies and regulations that are needed to be implemented to sustain the data ecosystem.