FAO Digital Services Portfolio

25 Pages·2017·0.59 MB·English

Université Cheikh Anta Diop de
Dakar Ministère de l’Agriculture et de l’Equipement Rural
Dakar | 11 Octobre, 2017
Agricultural Services and Digital Inclusion in Africa
Elisabetta DEMAITIS
FAO
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5 SOs / 17 SDGs
FAO’s Strategic Framework
and the SDGs
•Contributes to SDG 1, 2,
5, 9 and 17
•Aligned with SP2, SP3,
SP5 and Objective 6
•Reduce Rural Poverty
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5 SOs
• Reduce Rural Poverty
• Increase the Resilience of
Livelihoods to threats and
Crises
• Make Agriculture,
Forestry and Fisheries
more productive and
sustainable
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17 SDGs
1) End poverty in all its forms everywhere
2) End hunger, achieve food security & improved
nutrition & promote sust. agriculture
5) Achieve gender equality and empower all
women and girls
9) Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable
industrialization and foster innovation
17) Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global
partnership for sustainable development
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5 Ways
5 ways ICT can be a powerful means of
implementing change:
• Speed and scale of uptake;
• Reduced deployment costs;
• Growth in public awareness;
• Delivery of innovation, connectivity,
productivity & efficiency gains across sectors;
• Rapid upgrade rates
Source: ICT & SDGs - Earth Institute at Columbia University in
collaboration with Ericsson, Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs - 2015
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4 Barriers
4 categories of consumer-facing barriers
to Internet adoption
• Incentives
• Low incomes and affordability
• User capability
• Infrastructure
Source: Offline and falling behind - McKinsey 2014
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Device Agnostic Interaction Design
• Voice (IVR), SMS,
USSD, Smartphone
• Profiling through
Cooperatives, Radio
and Farmer Field
Schools
• User Centered Design
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4 Apps
“Cure and Feed your livestock”
An application providing real time information on
animal diseases control and animal feeding strategies.
“e-Nutrifood”
An application combining information on production,
conservation and consumption of nutritious foods.
“Weather and Crop calendar”
An application combining information on weather
forecasts, crop calendars and alert systems.
“AgriMarketplace”
An application to connect producers, traders and
consumers to facilitate trade and access to inputs.
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Cure and Feed your livestock
An application providing real time information on animal diseases control and
animal feeding strategies.
• Focus on syndromic events (reproductive, respiratory,
diarrhoea)
• Focus on species (milk cow, chickens/poultry).
• Build the network of veterinary officers at national level,
technicians, local NGO, leaders of communities.
• Focus on farmers that have access to some services, like
animal health care systems and feeding.
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Cure and Feed your livestock
Key Features.
• Select an animal (Cow, Chickens, Small ruminants)
• Select Feed or Health
• Select a syndrome
• FACT SHEETS with feed and health information and advise.
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