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Seeing is Believing: Helping the Kenyan Farmer Adopt Good Agricultural Practice
Kenyan farmers have limited access to extension services which has attributed to a higher ratio of extension officers to farmers. According to NASEP (2012), the ratio is 1:1000 against the FAO recommended ratio of 1:400. This situation has hindered most farmers from keeping pace with the changing technological advances in agriculture. It has also posed […]
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Perspectives on Open Data: Sierra Leone
AODN had a chance to meet with Amos Lasana from Sierra Leone, an AODN Fellow – 2019 on his perspectives on Open Data in his country. Prior to 2013, there was very little work in terms of making Open Data and transparency a priority, let alone making any policies to influence its implementation. In 2009, the Ministry of […]
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Doubling Productivity Through Evidence-Informed Approaches
While there are instances where food production has recorded an increase [Abate, et al., 2015] factors that transformed maize productivity in Ethiopia, Africa’s food production has not grown significantly in the last 20 years. Where gains are recorded, the increase can be credited to an increase in area under cultivation [https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0652-3828], which in many parts […]
Pan Africanist Voices
Because our agriculture has the lowest productivity in the world, the only way we are going to be able to catch up with productivity is by linking it to agro processing. Not living it alone, but adding value to the chain
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Latest from Twitter
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Seeing is Believing: @ldri is helping farmers in #Kaimbu and #Embu Counties embrace good agricultural practice thro… https://t.co/6hvMDGPyNz
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Some of the Village Based Advisors (VBAs) the @ldriafrica trained waiting to receive maize seeds for "mother demos… https://t.co/DUAb8F1BOp
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Our @ldriafrica Team led by the Technical Advisor and Project Assistant conducted training with Village Based Advi… https://t.co/sXXKuzU5Pv
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The LDRI team held a sensitization meeting with Input Companies on the VBA Model to explore collaboration on provid… https://t.co/xfImIQRZLq
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Recent Work
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Malabo Open Data Study
The Maputo Declaration (2003) placed its 44 member African Countries on spotlight not only to increase their agriculture budget by 10% but increase their agricultural productivity by 6% annually. The Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) was also established in 2003 as Africa’s policy framework for agricultural transformation, wealth creation, food security and nutrition, economic […]
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Gendered Open Data Report 2018
Gender inequality is not only a worldwide moral or social issue, but also a sustainable development problem. With women accounting for over 50% of the world’s population1, persistent gender inequality continues to have a negative impact on sustainable development. The situation is no different in Anglophone Sub-Saharan Africa, which this report focuses on.2 Gender inequalities […]
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