<p dir="ltr">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?</p>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 25 May 2017 02:50, "Ali Hussein via kictanet" <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">According to the <a href="http://www.fao.org/fileadmin/templates/wsfs/docs/expert_paper/How_to_Feed_the_World_in_2050.pdf" style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:none;background-position:0px 0px" target="_blank">Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations</a>, 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 <a href="http://tekedia.com/59914/stanford-artificial-intelligence-shows-distribution-of-poverty-in-nigeria-via-satellite-images/" style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:none;background-position:0px 0px" target="_blank">mass hunger</a>.</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Kenyan Startups FarmDrive and UjuziKilimo get honorable mentions in this HBR Article.</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Read on:-</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></div><div><a href="https://hbr.org/2017/05/how-digital-technology-is-changing-farming-in-africa" target="_blank">https://hbr.org/2017/05/how-<wbr>digital-technology-is-<wbr>changing-farming-in-africa</a></div><div><br><br><div><span><b>Ali Hussein</b></span></div><div><span><b>Principal</b></span></div><div><b style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Hussein & Associates</b></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium">+254 0713 601113 </div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium"><br></div><div><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Twitter: @AliHKassim</span></p><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><font></font></span><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Skype: abu-jomo</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">LinkedIn: <a href="http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim" target="_blank">http://ke.linkedin.<wbr>com/in/alihkassim</a></span></p><font><br></font></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit."  ~ Aristotle</span></div><div><br></div><div><span><br></span></div>Sent from my iPad</div></div><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
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