Farm.ink: Analysing livestock social media data for farmer chatbot
Innovation
Farm.ink connects geographically isolated farmers and provides research insights about livestock health.
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
Rapid genomic detection of aquaculture pathogens
Innovation
This project will pilot a transportable, low-cost diagnostic ?lab-in-a-backpack? that will enable users without molecular biology experience to identify fish pathogens in real-time with limited electricity and internet connectivity.
Hungry cities: Inclusive food markets in Africa
Innovation
The project analyzes two years of commercial data on 17 fresh fruit and vegetables (FFV) from more than 20,000 farmers, 14,000 retailers and 6 wholesale markets, and more than 100 fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) to gain insights into the metropolit
REAL-TIME DIAGNOSTICS FOR DEVASTATING WHEAT RUST IN ETHIOPIA (MARPLE DIAGNOSTICS)
Innovation
This project has developed and mainstreamed an affordable, mobile in-field pathogenomics platform called MARPLE (Mobile And Real-time PLant disEase) diagnostics which provides crop pathogen surveillance and diagnostic. Through quicker, cheaper, and r
Decision support tool to improve potato late blight management (Potato Mobile APP)
Innovation
The tool consists of three disks made of plastic-coated cardboard. Each disk has a different background color and represents a host resistance class (red = susceptible, yellow= moderately resistant, green= resistant) based on the 0 to 9 susceptibilit