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e-Agriculture Promising Practice Grameen Foundation’s FarmerLink - Driving coconut smallholder productivity and resilience through digital technology

Year of publication 2018

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 8p.

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Brochure, flyer, fact-sheet

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) Grameen Foundation’s breakthrough FarmerLink program combines satellite data and farm data collected by mobile-equipped field agents to help coconut farmers in the Philippines, to increase field agents to help coconut farmers in the Philippines to increase productivity, deal with crop pests and diseases, cope with extreme weather and increase the sustainability of their farms. Grameen Foundation developed FarmerLink using human-centered design and in collaboration with partner organizations and their trusted network of field agents. Its design and delivery enables smallholder farmers, to overcome usability challenges in working with mobile services and offers access to precious, previously unavailable information.

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