Digital Agriculture Africa provides a digital farm-to-fork solution
Kenya, Nigeria, Ethiopia
Project
Facts
Estimated reach: 20 K people
Launch date:
Status: Implemented
Project type: digital agriculture, economy
Purpose of Project
Enabling digital learning for small-scale farmers
GIZ’s Digital Agriculture Africa Program aims to address the health, economic and food security impacts of the COVID-19 crisis by providing a digital learning “Farm-to-Fork Solution”. Even though farming is a cornerstone for African economies, smallholder farmers face many challenges. Although African farming accounts for two thirds of employment and contributes to at least 15% of GDP, low access to information, markets and investment, low use of inputs, degraded soils and a lack of water management prevail. The impacts of COVID-19 in Africa significantly exacerbated these existing challenges, plunging the region into its first recession in over 25 years. The Digital Agriculture Africa Program seeks to help small-scale farmers overcome these impacts and challenges. It enables scaled digital learning about topics such as climate-smart farming, the COVID-19 pandemic and other critical topics through a free, open access learning platform, thus including both small-scale farmers and consumers.
Local team
Implementing
solutions
Smart Facts
Facts about Digital Agriculture Africa
The solution trained more than
20,000 farmers
on modern farm practice on digital platforms.
Digital Agriculture Africa (DAA) generated more than 12,000 transactions via the digital food marketplace.
More than 40 institutions engaged, onboarded and partnered with Digital Agriculture Africa.
The platform added approximately
30+ value chain sets
available for download and integration into digital channels.
The DAA has supported partners access information through Amana Market Platform, IVR, Sprout Platform, Sprout Learning WhatsApp Service, SMS, Digifarm WhatsApp Service, ATA 8028 Farmers Hotline.
The content is available in English, Kiswahili, and Amharic.
