June 23, 2017
Facebook Live: Enlightening Lightning Talks on Key Trends
10:00-10:30am: Enlightening Lightning Talks on Key Trends
- Data-Driven Farming For Everyone: Daniel Jiménez, CIAT
Small-scale farmers are being left behind in the precision agriculture revolution sweeping advanced economies. How can we help poor farmers in developing countries adopt the newest data-driven farming technologies and reduce info-inequality?
- Assessing Climate Smart Agriculture at the Farm Level: Carmen Tedesco, DAI
How can we build farm system resilience and reduce greenhouse gas emissions? A new assessment tool tested with farmers in the Eastern Caribbean, Kenya, and Vermont shows promise in different contexts to help communities apply CSA at the farm level.
- Imagery, Spectral Science, and Sustainable UAV Business Models: Solomon Elorm Allavi, Syecomp Ghana
Private companies in Ghana are investing in drones with multi-spectral agrosensors to provide info-services for farmers. Yet the business model for drone imagery in agriculture is unproven. Who is innovating? What are they learning? And are there sustainable business models?
- How Data Is Transforming Food Security Assessments: Kate Wilson, DIAL
New insights into mobile phone usage is transforming our understanding of food security. From a linkage between mobile top-up rates and calorie consumption, to satellite remote sensing and crop yield, we can now understand food security issues better and predict food crisis faster.
- The Importance of Infomediaries: Mridul Chowdhury, mPower Social Enterprises
Traditional agro recommendation services are often not specific enough for farmers to make field-level recommendations, yet technology-based solutions can be daunting for digitally illiterate farmers. Local infomediaries leveraging precision technologies offer a potential solution with real results.
- It’s the Market, Stupid: Eric Couper, GreenPath Food
A how-to guide for donors and implementing agencies on how to work better with private sector buyers, traders, and exporters to increase market linkages, from a former aid implementer turned organic agribusiness owner in Ethiopia.
