A national e-agriculture (or digital agriculture) strategy promotes the emergence of a common understanding of issues related to the adoption of digital technology for agrifood systems performance, and favours the deployment in synergy of transformational actions. The design of these policy documents has accelerated in recent years in Africa. First attempts started in the mid-2000s generally with the insertion of a chapter relating to agriculture in digital development strategies. Since the 2010s, the movement has accelerated with the development of
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In the section “TIC Benin” you will find respectively articles I republish on the state of ICT in Benin (my home country); in “Documents clés” I have included some key documents I wish to signal dealing with ICT4D mainly. In the section “Mes contributions” you will find publications I authored or commented on. Most articles published on this website are in French. In this section, I have included most articles published in English (written by myself or not) on the website.
Summary of an exchange with the African Food Fellowship (article written by the program).
Ken Lohento is an award-winning global food systems leader known for his work with Pitch AgriHack, digital villages and enabling youth livelihoods. He has more than 20 years of experience designing and managing national and international programmes related to digitalisation for food security, socio-economic development, and youth in agriculture. In this inspiration Session with Kenyan Fellows, he talks about the importance of
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(Published in the ICT Update magazine of CTA)
CTA has been operating the AgriHack Talent initiative since September 2013 when its first ‘hackathon’ for agriculture was organised. Ensibuuko, a youth-led company from Uganda (they now offer digitally-supported financial management services to around 200,000 farmers), won the first prize. Since then, AgriHack has developed into a renowned programme which has supported more than 1,500 young entrepreneurs offering advisory, market linkage, financial and supply chain management services
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Interested in agech in West Africa? Discover details about business and policy issues young digital agriculture start-ups are facing, their key success drivers and how they are trying to achieve success in this new CTA publication.
The publication is an abridged version of a report that I co-authored with a colleague that CTA published.
It is an interpretative phenomenological research that focuses on youth-led companies offering digital services to the agro-food sector in West Africa. Youth is considered as
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