Development of farmer-friendly plant health digital content for smallholder farmers in Kenya
Digital technology has the potential to improve farmer livelihoods through access and utilization of agricultural digital platforms and digital online content across the agricultural value chain. However, despite the rapid global interest and growth of digital services, smallholder farmers face challenges that hinder them from realising the benefits of new…
Enhancing technology-based agriculture and marketing in rural Punjab
Punjab’s agriculture growth rate has declined over the last two decades because of various challenges. These include the inadequate availability of high-yielding cultivars and lack of diversification in cultivation, inefficient on-farm water management, poor infrastructure for value chain development, weak research and extension services that are largely disconnected from market…
CABI and ACWICT partner to enhance digital agricultural resource use by women and young farmers in Kenya
The African Centre for Women, Information and Communications Technology (ACWICT) and CABI have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) that will enable both organisations to jointly work towards enhancing access and use of digital resources by women and young farmers to enable sustainable agricultural production and food security. This comes…
CABI highlights benefits of analytics-based plant disease management as part of knowledge exchange webinar
CABI’s Henry Mibei – an expert in agricultural digital development – has contributed to the Africa-Korea Disruptive Agricultural Technology (DAT) Knowledge Exchange Series aimed at innovative technology solutions for agricultural risk management. Mr Mibei, who is based at CABI’s Africa Centre in Nairobi, Kenya, took the opportunity to highlight how…
Data Sharing Toolkit could contribute to unlocking greater food security in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia
CABI has joined forces with the Open Data Institute (ODI) to launch a Data Sharing Toolkit which could contribute to unlocking greater food security in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia through better access to information on soil health, agronomy and fertilizers. The new resource, made possible thanks to funding from…
CABI BioProtection Portal welcomes new partner Idai Nature
Partnership will help CABI increase global reach and uptake of free tool to enhance awareness and uptake of biocontrol and biopesticide products The CABI BioProtection Portal has welcomed Idai Nature as a partner. This is great news for the development of the free-to-use tool which promotes awareness and uptake of…