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e-Agriculture Promising Practice: aWhere’s agronomic and weather based tips for smallholder farmers

Location specific and timely advice to improve productivity and climate resilience among smallholder farmers

Year of publication 2018

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 5

Author Stewart Collins

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Brochure, flyer, fact-sheet

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) aWhere delivers agricultural intelligence to farmers, farm managers, crop consultants and researchers all over the world. The company aims at making agronomic and weather data available to farmers through intermediaries such as research centers, governments, information companies, mobile network operators and non profit organizations which can integrate the data into their own information systems. Thanks to the data and the information that was collected, analyzed and shared, farmers can more easily adapt their practices to variable and extreme weather conditions and they are more aware of the new technologies they can adopt ot perform better under the changing climatic conditions. This promising practices focuses on the current projects in Ghana and Kenya with Esoko and iShamba.

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