Integrated Digital Solution for Supporting Fishery Sector in Senegal
We will provide an overview of the fisheries industry in Senegal that provides employment for more than 600,000 people in Senegal, and fish are a critical source of nutrition in the country, where 30% of rural households experience food insecurity. We will indicate the role of artisanal fishermen, who catch most of the fish in […]
Erica Ciaraldi
Berhane Gebru
Putting Evidence into Practice: Improving Agriculture and Land Tenure Investments
The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), ranked for seven years in a row as the world’s most transparent bilateral development donor by The Aid Transparency Index, is a leader in being accountable for its investments and maintaining transparency in reporting its results. MCC, having invested over $2.3 billion in agriculture and land and property rights, strives […]
Kaj Gass
Advancing Resilient Market Systems through ICT: Case Studies from Nigeria, and Kenya
Smallholder farmers face numerous challenges to building the resilience of their local food systems. These include inefficient and fragmented markets, limited information access, and, of course, increasing climate-related shocks. This ICT4AG session submission highlights three rigorous research projects that are part of the Advancing Local Leadership, Innovations, and Networks, an initiative funded by USAID’s Feed […]
Sophie Javers
Bringing Smallholder Farmers’ Voice to the Conversation
Leveraging the power of AI and Big Data to truly move the needle on meeting the SDGs Since 2010, Producers Direct has been working in partnership with our network of over 1m smallholders to design digital tools that truly overcome the multiple challenges that smallholders face, particularly climate change, gender inequity and poverty. This started […]
Katie Messick
Leveraging ICT to Empower Smallholder Farmers in the Global Carbon Market
In an era where sustainable agriculture is imperative for combating climate change, smallholder farmers emerge as vital agents of environmental stewardship. Yet, their participation in the global carbon market is fraught with barriers, from the complexities of validating carbon credits to the challenge of quantifying their contributions to climate mitigation in real-time. The ICTforAg 2024 […]
