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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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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This study was produced in the framework of activities of the Vijabiz project implemented by CTA and Ustadi Foundation in Kenya. It aimed at establishing rural youth groups’ access and use of different ICT and social media in their agribusiness activities. The study also sought to assess the gaps and barriers affecting the use of ICTs by rural youth in Kenya and provide recommendations. ICTs are considered as any digital technology that facilitates access to, processing
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