Pest Risk Information SErvice (PRISE): impacts, partnerships and next steps
Published: July, 2025
Briefing
This publication reviews the Pest Risk Identification SErvice (PRISE), its purpose, role within government systems, its impact and next steps.
The key messages include:
• PRISE is an early-warning information system that helps to reduce farmers’ crop losses by utilizing earth observation data to generate location-specific short text message (SMS) alerts on the optimal time to act against pests
• PRISE is embedded in government plant health and agricultural extension systems, with their dissemination platforms used to send farmers PRISE alerts and related agricultural advice
• PRISE has reached over 2 million farmers in Kenya, Ghana, Zambia and Malawi
• A 2024 study among tomato farmers in Kenya found the alerts to have increased yields by 16% and income by 10%
• PRISE helps to reduce pesticide use, with the same study in Kenya finding alerts reduced pesticide spraying by 11% and pesticide costs by 12%
• PRISE is highly scalable to additional countries and can deliver data and advice from field-level to a national scale
Pest Risk Information SErvice (PRISE): impacts, partnerships and next steps
Type Briefing
Published in CABI Briefing: PRISE
Language English
Year 2025
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PRISE: a Pest Risk Information SErvice
Pests can decimate crops and are estimated to cause around a 40% loss. These insects, mites and plant pathogens can impact on food security and impede supply chains and international trade. A Pest Risk Information SErvice (PRISE) aims to solve this problem by using data to help farmers manage pests in up to five countries in sub-Saharan Africa.
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