FarmForce: Digital management of smallholders to enable sustainable agricultural sourcing
Innovation
FarmForce aims to deliver digital solutions to secure sustainable sourcing, improve farmer quality of life and protect the environment. Launched in Nairobi, Kenya in 2012, Farmforce supports local and global agribusinesses to understand where their p
PRIDE? (Progressive Rural Integrated Digital Enterprise)
Innovation
The PRIDE? (Progressive Rural Integrated Digital Enterprise) is a platform powered by the TCS mKRISHI? and designed to enhance the climatic and market resiliency of its farmer members while increasing their financial resiliency. For example, during t
CubicA, the New Farmer Advisory App
Innovation
CubicA is an innovative Agriculture Advisory App which intends to bridge the smallholder farmers? information gap. It works like a search engine which doesn?t require internet connectivity, whereby any farmer can simply call a free hotline to get wea
Gamifying weather forecasting: ?Let it rain? campaign
Innovation
The ?Let it rain? campaign is a platform that gamified weather prediction to incentivize farmers uptake of localised agro-advisories and help crowdsource weather information, which, when run through machine learning, will further improve weather fore
PlantVillage Nuru: Pest and disease monitoring using AI
Innovation
Nuru is a mobile AI assistant that works inside a standard smartphone and is capable of accurately diagnosing cassava diseases offline, without an internet connection.