Pritam of Digital Green shared his experiences of reaching the last mile to farmers using openly accessible knowledge and also making it openly available to the world on www through youtube channel.
Facilitating Agro advisory services through ICTAshish Bhandari
The digital connectivity along agriculture value chains is need felt. This presentation (Rights: Upveda technology Pvt. Ltd) is continuous attempt to imbue how ICT can act as a digital boon in Agriculture. This proposed 'ICT based Agri-Extension Model' is a 'Collaborative Innovation' approach with variuos stakeholders and partnering organizations to tap ubiquitous potential of ICT.
Facilitating Agro advisory services through ICTAshish Bhandari
The digital connectivity along agriculture value chains is need felt. This presentation (Rights: Upveda technology Pvt. Ltd) is continuous attempt to imbue how ICT can act as a digital boon in Agriculture. This proposed 'ICT based Agri-Extension Model' is a 'Collaborative Innovation' approach with variuos stakeholders and partnering organizations to tap ubiquitous potential of ICT.
Presentation at the 5th Global Science Conference on Climate-Smart Agriculture.
Title: Downscaled Agro-Weather Advisories and Hybrid Crop Insurance for Sorghum Farmers in Kenya
Speaker: Stella Ndirangu
Africa RISING seeks partnership with development institutions for scaling of ...africa-rising
Presented by Mateete Bekunda, Haroon Sseguya and Irmgard Hoeschle-Zeledon at the Africa RISING–CRS (Catholic Relief Services) Tanzania Meeting, Dar es Salaam, 6 March 2017
One of the finalists, eNGO - GRAAM, in the category 'Advocacy', is an initiative of Swami Vivekananda Youth Movement, that works towards advocating policy change.
Op 6 november 2010 werd de landelijke dag van het Burkina Faso Platform gehouden.
Eefke Mollee presenteerde in de workshop landbouw over de resultaten van 20 jaar agroforestry en toepassing van 'the participatory approach'
Research brokers and intermediaries in different sectors and contexts: agriculture
Presentation by James Nguo, Executive Director, Arid Lands Information network (Kenya) at the Locating the Power of the In-between conference July 08
ILRI Communications and Knowledge Management StrategyILRI
Presented by Michael Victor at the “Webinar on ILRI Publications Guidelines for Boosting Uganda’s Investments in Livestock Development Project”, 14 April 2020
Experience of the Ghana Agricultural Information Network Systems (GAINS)iaaldafrika
PowerPoint presentation on GAINS activities presented at the IAALD Africa Chapter session at the Joint Conference of IAALD, AFITA and WCCA, 24 - 27 August 2008, Atsugi, Japan
Djibouti—Country implementation strategic for scaling technologyILRI
Presented by Ahmed Darar (The Djibouti Agro-Pastoralists Association) and Abdillahi Ahmed Houssein (The Djibouti Agro-Pastoralists Association) at the FAO-ILRI Regional Training Workshop on proven Livestock Technologies, ILRI, Addis Ababa, 3-5 December 2018
Presentation at the 5th Global Science Conference on Climate-Smart Agriculture.
Title: Downscaled Agro-Weather Advisories and Hybrid Crop Insurance for Sorghum Farmers in Kenya
Speaker: Stella Ndirangu
Africa RISING seeks partnership with development institutions for scaling of ...africa-rising
Presented by Mateete Bekunda, Haroon Sseguya and Irmgard Hoeschle-Zeledon at the Africa RISING–CRS (Catholic Relief Services) Tanzania Meeting, Dar es Salaam, 6 March 2017
One of the finalists, eNGO - GRAAM, in the category 'Advocacy', is an initiative of Swami Vivekananda Youth Movement, that works towards advocating policy change.
Op 6 november 2010 werd de landelijke dag van het Burkina Faso Platform gehouden.
Eefke Mollee presenteerde in de workshop landbouw over de resultaten van 20 jaar agroforestry en toepassing van 'the participatory approach'
Research brokers and intermediaries in different sectors and contexts: agriculture
Presentation by James Nguo, Executive Director, Arid Lands Information network (Kenya) at the Locating the Power of the In-between conference July 08
ILRI Communications and Knowledge Management StrategyILRI
Presented by Michael Victor at the “Webinar on ILRI Publications Guidelines for Boosting Uganda’s Investments in Livestock Development Project”, 14 April 2020
Experience of the Ghana Agricultural Information Network Systems (GAINS)iaaldafrika
PowerPoint presentation on GAINS activities presented at the IAALD Africa Chapter session at the Joint Conference of IAALD, AFITA and WCCA, 24 - 27 August 2008, Atsugi, Japan
Djibouti—Country implementation strategic for scaling technologyILRI
Presented by Ahmed Darar (The Djibouti Agro-Pastoralists Association) and Abdillahi Ahmed Houssein (The Djibouti Agro-Pastoralists Association) at the FAO-ILRI Regional Training Workshop on proven Livestock Technologies, ILRI, Addis Ababa, 3-5 December 2018
Making Research and Science Reach Farmers and End UsersFAO
Making Research and Science Reach Farmers and End Users, By Arab organization for Agricultural Development (AOAD), Land and Water Days in Near East & North Africa, 15-18 December 2013, Amman, Jordan
It's about DigitalGreen which is social enterprise in India using technology to help the farmer in India.
The contents including pictures are from Digitalgreen.(http://digitalgreen.org/)
Information and Communication Technology in dissemination of Agricultural Tec...Lokesh Waran
Information and Communication Technology in dissemination of Agricultural Technologies
Dr.J.Meenambigai
Associate Professor
Department of agricultural Extension
Faculty of Agriculture
Annamalai University
Chidambaram
Assessment of socio-economic, institutional and political constraints and opp...RiceAdvice
Assessment of socio-economic, institutional and political constraints and opportunities for RiceAdvice scaling out and up. By: Espérance ZOSSOU. IS/IP Specialist, AfricaRice
Presented by Alan J Duncan, Luke York, Ben Lukuyu, Arindam Samaddar, Werner Stür and Peter Ballantyne at the Workshop on Identifying Investment Opportunities for Livestock Feed Resources Development in the Eastern Africa Sub-Region, ILRI Addis, 13-15 December 2017
IFPRI organized a two day workshop on “Agricultural Extension Reforms in South Asia – Status, Challenges, and Policy Options” to be organized at Committee Room 3, NASC, Pusa, New Delhi on February 17-18, 2015. IFPRI has been conducting research related to agricultural extension reforms in India and collaborating with researchers in other south Asian countries for the past five years through various projects. For understanding extension reforms in India, a major consultation was held in NAARM in 2009 during which policy makers called for development of evidence for spreading extension reform process in India. Since then several research papers have been produced on various aspects of Indian extension system. While they are presented in various forms including several discussion papers, there is a need to pull all the research result together to present it in form that could be used by the policy makers to further guide them in the reform process. South Asian countries such as Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka are going through similar challenges in getting knowledge to farmers. Several experiment shave been conducted to test new approaches to extension by the public, private and NGO sectors. Learning from each country experiences will bring collective understanding and knowledge for the policy makers who are attempting to bring changes in the reform process. The purpose of this workshop is to bring together a groups of researchers, analysts and policy makers to present the issues, constraints and challenges facing agricultural extension reforms that are being implemented in South Asian countries.
Transforming lives of rural communities around the world by using digital pla...STARS Forum
Ritika Pandey of Digital Green speaking at the STARS Forum 7th Annual National Congress, shares results of pilots in providing and enhancing agriculture extension services to farmers. Very innovative use of video technology, video content from the farmers themselves have been highly effective in spreading knowledge, skills, and expertise between farming communities.
Ramoo of Sahaja Aharam brought the civil sector perspective on open access and asked some difficult questions like : what is the real meaning of it? What it doesn't mean? etc
A.K Jain, the head of AKMU , IARI shared his experience of implementation of Koha - Open Source ILS - Integrated Library System and CeRA - Consortium for e-Resources in Agriculture.
Devika Madali of ISI shares experience working with agINFRA and RDA in building standards with respect to different aspects of open knowledge repositories.
Open Access and Natural Resource ConservationFRANK Water
An alternative look at open access of knowledge in agriculture and what it was traditionally like and what are things we could learn from our own traditional systems.
Open Access in Agriculture - ICAR Perspectice FRANK Water
Rameshwar Singh, Director of ICAR made a detailed presentation sharing the efforts made by ICAR in the last decade towards opening knowledge up and setting up means to measure the same to facilitate career growth of scientist.
Opening Data, Information and Knowledge for Agriculture Development FRANK Water
Ajit Maru,Senior Knowledge Officer at Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the UN, OiC, SRO at Global Forum on Agricultural Research presented where the international agricutural open access movement is heading towards.
Open data & knowledge solutions - a cgiar perspective dileepFRANK Water
This was a presentation made by Dr. G Dileepkumar of ICRISAT, sharing what is happening at CGIAR with respect to open access and how far has their initiative gone.
Open access to data, information and knowledge has been a movement that has picked up a lot of speed in the past few years. We from weaver technologies were invited by ICRISAT to talk and share our experiences with Open data/ information on the occasion of open access week.
First among the series of visualization of ecological -sanitation research work conducted by University of Agricultural Sciences in collaboration with Arghyam Foundation.
This is another presentation visualizing the work on Ecological Sanitation by University of Agricultural Sciences in collaboration with Arghyam Foundation.
This is an advocacy presentation prepared from the research conducted on Ecological Sanitation and its benefits to agriculture by University of Agricultural Sciences in collaboration with Arghyam foundation.
Visualization of NATIONAL WATER RESOURCES FRAMEWORK STUDY done by CEEWFRANK Water
This is set of infographics based on the report content (NATIONAL WATER RESOURCES FRAMEWORK STUDY ) for widespread sharing and dissemination.
This report was researched and prepared by CEEW, Delhi
Communication strategy – Ganga River Basin Management Plan tFRANK Water
This was a communication stragegy we ( Sachin and I) developed in the past to address a external communication on Ganga River Basin Management plant that involved many stakeholdres including the academia, community, government and service providers.
Communication strategy – Ganga River Basin Management Plan t
last mile farmer reach using open agriculture and knowledge and Innovation ICT
1. Last Mile Farmer Reach
using Open Agriculture Knowledge
& Innovative ICT
2. Digital Green uses social organization and
technology to improve the efficiency of
extension systems
3. 3 3
Agricultural Extension
Dissemination of expert agricultural information to farmers
Training & Visit: Face-to-face
interactions of extension officers and
farmers
500,000 extension officers in
developing countries
Extension agent-to-farmer ratio:
1:2,600 in South Asia
1:1,800 in Sub-Saharan Africa
High recurring costs, weak
accountability, under-resourced,
limited training
Extension officer “commuting” between farms
4. Information Sources for Farmers in India
4
% farm households (n = 51,770)
0 5 10 15 20
Other progressive farmers
Salesmen (e.g., fertilizer, pesticide)
Radio
Television
Newspaper
Extension worker
Cooperative
Buyer
Government demonstration
Others
Main source of information about new technology and
farm practices over the past 365 days (India: NSSO 2005)
5. 5
Digital Video for Extension
Video provides…
– Resource-savings: human, cost, time
– Accessibility for non-literate farmers
6. • Use ICT based community oriented approaches to
improve effectiveness and efficiency of knowledge
transfer
• Act as an effective knowledge management platform
• Builds on innate capacities of community to community
Digital Green
Research
Organizations
Technology
providers
Implementers
and
practitioners
Global
Users
Rural
Community
transfer of knowledge
Community
approach to
knowledge
dissemination
Efficient
technology stack
Training and
Capacity Building
Knowledge
management
platform
Digital Green
7. Initiation
Mobilization
Situational
Awareness
Training
Production
Topic
Identification
Storyboarding Shooting Editing
Diffusion
Dissemination Adoption Reporting
Agricultural extension is essentially the dissemination of expert agricultural information and technologies to farmers. Agricultural extension was popularized by the World Bank during the 1960s and 1970s in the form of the “Training & Visit” system. Today, India still has over 100,000 civil-service extension officers. This represents the second largest extension force in the world, but India has an even vaster population of farmers. Indeed, there is only 1 extension officer for every 2,000 farmers. Reference for stats: Agricultural research and extension funding levels required to meet the Anti-Hunger Programme objectives (FAO)
In 2003, the Government of India sponsored a National Sample Survey to understand the sources of information farmers were relying upon for new technology and farm practices. They discovered that the formal channels of extension – including, the “Training and Visit”-style extension and the government’s broadcast media programs – were reaching a small proportion of farm households. Instead, they found that farmers primarily relied on the informal channels of information diffusion that existed by “word of mouth” in their own village communities.
Inspired by Digital StudyHall’s efforts in improving rural education, we began with the premise that digital video is a technology that can be taken to the last-mile and provide significant resource-savings – particularly, since the hardware has become so affordable. A one-to-one demonstration between an extension officer and a farmer could now be digitally captured and shown to many farmers who could easily relate to a visual media.
Hub and spoke model. 6-8 videos a month in each district. 4-8 community vidoes producers in each district. One mediator per village