How digital innovation and better data can strengthen Africa’s food systems
A recent CABI webinar explored the Global Burden of Crop Loss initiative and how better data, modelling and digital innovation can strengthen Africa’s food systems. The article highlights early findings on crop losses and their economic impacts, as well as the wider role of digital technologies, data systems and collaboration in supporting more resilient and sustainable agriculture.
App-based agriculture for a tech-savvy farmer
Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa is undergoing a digital revolution bought about through the advancement and increasing availability of mobile technologies. Improved affordability has placed mobile devices in the hands of more African’s than ever before, with 444 million subscribed users in 2017. Take Tanzania for example where the average cost of mobile phones has fallen…
Story maps: visualizing multimedia development communications
The famous statistician, Hans Rosling, used to say the aim is to go from numbers to information to understanding. This is the essence of how data should be used, shared and presented. Data can be presented in many different ways but maps are perhaps the best way of visualizing spatial information. As technology has progressed…