Innovations in Extension and Advisory Services
Innovations in Information and Communication Technologies
Session 1: Innovations in Extension and Advisory Services
August 31, 2021
Moderator
Mr. Josh Woodard
Senior Digital Advisor, USAID’s Bureau for Resilience and Food Security
Opening Remarks
Introductory video
Dr. Gerald Shively
Associate Dean and Director of International Program in Agriculture, Purdue University
Presentations
Leveraging the Power of Data Exchange for Extension
Ms. Alesha Miller
Vice President Strategy & Partnerships, Digital Green
Strengthening Digital Extension to Deploy Effective Remote Farming Technology
Ms. Laurence Mukamana
Deputy Chief of Party & Senior Agronomist, Cultivating New Frontiers in Agriculture (CNFA) Feed the Future Rwanda Hinga Weze Activity
Mr. Etienne Niyigaba
Agriculture Extension Advisor, Cultivating New Frontiers in Agriculture (CNFA) Feed the Future Rwanda Hinga Weze Activity
Enhancing Last-mile Delivery of Extension Services Through Digitalization of Village Based Advisors
Mr. Qureish Noordin
Program Officer, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA)
Unlocking New Pathways to Sustainable Growth Through Technology Innovations
Mr. Moussa Senge
System Change and Partnerships Coordinator, One Acre Fund
Questions & Answers
Wrap-up & Closing Remarks
RESOURCES
- Data-driven decentralized breeding increases prediction accuracy in a challenging crop production environment
(Report, Communications Biology, 2021) - Pasturemap merges with soil value exchange to create grassroots carbon
(Article, Successful Farming, 2021) - Conservation agriculture increases the soil resilience and cotton yield stability in climate extremes of the southeast US
(Article, Communications Earth and Environment, 2021) - Standards and data exchange in agriculture
(Report, Aspexit Precision Agriculture, 2021) - Agdatahub / Consent and data exchange in agriculture
(Report, Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs, 2021) - Transforming Agriculture Through Smart Farming: From Data Ownership to Open Data
(Article, Farming First, 2020) - Data sharing in the agricultural sector
(Report, Support Centre for Data Sharing, 2019) - Community Toolkits
(Resource, Global Forum for Rural Advisory Services, 2021) - Agriculture in the Digital Age
(Website)
- Farmbot Selects ORBCOMM’s Satellite IoT Technology to Enable Smart Agriculture Solutions
(Article, YahooFinance, 2021) - How technology might finally start telling farmers things they didn’t already know
(Article, MITTechnology Review, 2020) - GUSS — The Future of Precision Farming
(Article, California News Times, 2021) - Reshaping the agricultural sector with smart farming
(Article, Analytics Insight, 2021) - Smart Farming—Automated and Connected Agriculture
(Article, Engineering Com, 2018) - Digital Technologies in Agriculture and Rural Areas
(Report, Food and Agriculture Organizations, 2019) - Start-up's bird-like drone to help remote farmers
(Article, Farming UK, 2021) - Technologies That Will Change Agriculture
(Article, Successful Farming, 2021)
- CropIn-AGRA Partnership Taps into Digital Technologies to Boost Africa's Extension Service Coverage
(Article, CropIn, 2021) - Village-Based Advisors Deliver Critical Extension Services to Smallholder Farmers
(Article, AgriLinks, 2021) - New digital tool to empower farmers to access extension services
(Article, AgriDigitale, 2020) - Using personalised digital extension services to improve agriculture performance – an example from India
(Article, Rural21, 2021) - Digital Tools in USAID Agriculture Programming Kit
(Report, United States Agency for International Development, 2018) - Agricultural extension and its effects on farm productivity and income: insight from Northern Ghana
(Report, BMC Port of Springer Nature, 2018)
- The Role of Technology in Sustainable Agriculture
(Article, IPM World, 2021) - New Agriculture Technology in Modern Farming
(Article, Plug and Play, 2021) - The Role of Smart Technology in Sustainable Agriculture: A Case Study of Wangree Plant Factory
(PDF, Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2020) - Agriculture’s connected future: How technology can yield new growth
(Article, McKinsey and Company, 2020) - The Sustainable Agriculture Transition: Technology options for low and middle-income countries
(Report, International Institute for Sustainable Development, 2020 - Sustainable Agriculture and Smart Farming
(Report, ResearchGate, 2018) - Adoption of Technologies for Sustainable Farming Systems
(PDF, Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2020) - Sustainable Food and Agriculture
(Video, Food and Agriculture Organization, 2020)