March 05, 2009

AGCommons' selection of five Quick Win Projects

You can hardly call it low external input, but anyway here's some examples of how geospatial technology is going to be used to provide solutions that ultimately meet the needs of smallholder farmers.

AGCommons has announced its selection of five Quick Win Projects for immediate implementation:

  • Nodes of growth: Improving legume seed networks in Kenya  (CIAT-Africa)
  • Seeing Is Believing: unlocking precision agriculture in West African smallholder communities with very high resolution imagery   (ICRISAT)
  • Roads Data Development in Ethiopia  (NASA (SEDAC))
  • Community Level Crop Disease Surveillance  (Grameen Foundation)
  • Africa Trial Sites Catalogue: Reaching out to farmers, agronomists and plant breeders with spatially efficient, participatory testing networks  (CGIAR)

For more info see the AGCommons website.

5 Mar 2009 11:39:45 | Networking, Rural Development, Small-scale Farming, Technology

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