AGRF 2019. Launch of the Digitalization of African Agriculture Report – 2018/2019

05th September 2019
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3 – 6 September 2019. The African Green Revolution Forum 2019.

Plenary – Leveraging Digitalization for Sustainable Food Systems

The Technical Centre for Agriculture and Rural Cooperation (CTA) on Tuesday launched the Digitalisation of African Agriculture Report for 2018-2019 in Accra.

The report, which was authored by Mr. Michael Hailu, Director-CTA, and Mr. Michael Tsan of Dalberg, advocates the digital agricultural transformation that can feed Africa.

Digitalisation for agriculture (D4Ag) could be a game changer in supporting and accelerating agricultural transformation across the continent. It indicated that the D4Ag addresses a wide scope of factors and conditions affecting farms, farmers and the agri-food sector as a whole.
The volume of data – and the supporting layer of new digital agricultural solutions – is growing exponentially at the same time as quality of that data is rapidly evolving.
D4Ag has the potential to not only support agricultural transformation but to do so sustainably and inclusively.
An inclusive, digitally-enabled agricultural transformation could help achieve meaningful livelihood improvements for Africa’s 250 million smallholder farmers and pastoralists – adding that it could drive greater engagement in agriculture from women and young people and support employment opportunities along the agricultural value chain; and it could help build resilience to climate change.
For the first time, it is possible to precisely capture data from individual farms and fields and combine them in macro-level data sets, and utilise those sets in increasingly cost-effective ways.

Key findings of The Digitalization of African Agriculture Report – 2018/2019,

Mr. Michael Hailu, President, CTA
Mr. Michael Tsan, Partner, Dalberg
Dr. Nick Austin, Director, Agricultural Development, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Ms. Elizabeth Nsimadala, President, Eastern Africa Farmers Federation
Ms. Amrote Abdella, Regional Director, Microsoft 4Afrika
Ms. Su Kahumbu, Founder, iCow
Mr. Jerome Barbaron, AME Territory Head, Syngenta

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