[kictanet] How Digital Technology Is Changing Farming in Africa

[Ali Hussein]

Florence

Good questions.

I believe we all have a role to play in our different capacities.
Government's role is of course already well known. Government needs to be
supported by different non-state players while the farmers themselves need
to embrace new thinking and new ways to enhance productivity.

Regards

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On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 9:38 AM, florence mwangangi <fmwangangi1 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> What is now needed is  dissemination of the information and the
> technologies  to the farmers upto to the one at the furthest end. What role
> does the Government, particularly the County Government have in the
> dissemination? What role do you and me have in it?
>
> On 25 May 2017 02:50, "Ali Hussein via kictanet" <
> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>
>> According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
>> <http://www.fao.org/fileadmin/templates/wsfs/docs/expert_paper/How_to_Feed_the_World_in_2050.pdf>,
>> the world population will reach 9.1 billion by 2050, and to feed that
>> number of people, global food production will need to grow by 70%. For
>> Africa, which is projected to be home to about 2 billion people by then,
>> farm productivity must accelerate at a faster rate than the global average
>> to avoid continued mass hunger
>> <http://tekedia.com/59914/stanford-artificial-intelligence-shows-distribution-of-poverty-in-nigeria-via-satellite-images/>
>> .
>>
>> Kenyan Startups FarmDrive and UjuziKilimo get honorable mentions in this
>> HBR Article.
>>
>> Read on:-
>>
>> https://hbr.org/2017/05/how-digital-technology-is-changing-
>> farming-in-africa
>>
>>
>> *Ali Hussein*
>> *Principal*
>> *Hussein & Associates*
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>>
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