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The project’s main objective is to increase the resilience of farmers to climate change, and improve climate risk management skills, leading to higher productivity for Rwandan farmers.

SeedAssure is a digital decision support tool for seed industry professionals with a much stronger reporting and corrective action management capability than existing paper-based processes. Through a checklist of online questions that interrogates every aspect of producing seed to the standard required by National regulations, SeedAssure ensures the Seed Inspector and the grower can analyze and record how the seed fields are performing at different stages of the crop cycle.

Twiga Foods is improving Kenya’s agricultural market by helping address key economic issues: high food prices, food safety and the need for established, sustainable markets. Using a mobile-based platform through which vendors can buy their stock - instead of travelling to wholesale markets at 4.00am and haggling for goods - the Twiga solution allows vendors to access better quality produce at competitive prices from their cellphones, which are then delivered directly to their city shops and stalls. Twiga’s all-year-round aggregation of demand for fresh fruit and vegetables (FFV) serves to create a sustainable market for farmers.

Biofortified with zinc and iron to fight micronutrient malnutrition, varieties of lentils developed by the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) mature in less than 100 days and fit well in cereal-based cropping systems. Lentils provide a protein-rich legume crop that can improve nutrition and strengthen rural livelihoods.

Desert Control, a Norwegian start up company, has devised a new way of mixing clay and water so that when it is applied to sandy soil, it envelops each grain of sand and spreads the clay perfectly. Liquid Nano Clay (LNC) as it is called, turns the sand into a sponge-like fabric that retains water, thereby holding the nutrients much better. Consequently, crops receive more nutrients and yields improve.

Nyabon Enterprises Ltd. has developed a business model that centers on providing low-horsepower tractors and accompanying implements to smallholder farmers so they can effectively mechanize production and primary processing on their farms. The model combines farm mechanization with linkages to finance and markets, and it has seen paddy rice farmers enjoy significantly increased crop yields while keeping production costs low.

Future Link Technologies (FLT) leverages the relevance and network of Savings and Credit Co-Operative Societies (SACCOs) to accelerate the adoption of digital financial services in rural farmer communities. These services enable farmers to grow their personal savings, access credit and make payments with ease and convenience.

The Amplio Talking Book (ATB) audio device provides smallholder farmers with technical information and lessons to help them increase their productivity, food security and nutrition. Implemented by Literacy Bridge Ghana (LBG), the Talking Book program has reached 23,000 women farmers in northern Ghana, with participants rating the programme as their top source of information for farming.

Most farmers have a problem with on time application of pesticide sprays owing to the lack of knowledge on how to scout for pests, how to determine the optimal time to spray, and a shortage of labor during certain periods of the cropping cycle. The use of drones increases spraying efficiency and reduces the turnaround times for applying crop protection.

By measuring levels of major nutrients like nitrogen, sodium and potassium, soil analysis allows farmers to gauge the appropriateness of growing a particular crop and adjust fertilizer use accordingly. However, because soil-scanning technology is costly and difficult to use, it is not widespread in Africa. AgroCares provides an inexpensive, easy-to-use scanner that helps farmers perform soil analyses on their farms, enabling them to manage soil health and increase their yields.

Farmers across the Global South can learn from agroecological solutions presented by their peers via Access Agriculture’s online video platform. While thousands of organizations and rural service providers have freely downloaded and shared these videos from Africa, Asia and Latin America, farmers have become the largest occupational group signing up for Access Agriculture. At least sixty million farmers have seen Access Agriculture videos.

Agrimech has identified a pressing need for an innovative business model that offers whole-value-chain mechanization services that are available, accessible, affordable, and accountable. The Agricultural Mechanization Services Hub enables farmers to access and hire holistic professional mechanization services in order to increase their production.

The reproductive platform aims to establish low-cost, low-infrastructure reproductive laboratories that transform breeding programs in Ethiopia by enhancing the management of reproductive cycles and genetic improvements to popular sheep and goat breeds. It reduces the risk that potentially unsuitable rams would be used for breeding and provides communities with new business opportunities.

To improve incomes from sheep fattening in rural Ethiopia, ICARDA took a new approach that leveraged youth as influencers to scale up adoption of improved sheep fattening technology and practices. Young people received a start-up package, participated in youth group trainings, were supported by a community of practice and disseminated their knowledge by organizing field days. This approach has continued in the communities despite the project ending. Thus, ICARDA continues to provide support and trainings to youth groups.

Ten years ago, community-based breeding programmes appeared as a pioneer solution for improving the genes of sheep and goat in low-input systems. CBBPs focus on building local capacity by training farmers, leading to sustained genetic improvement of indigenous breeds. The solution has made economically important genes more common, increased farmers’ income by 20 per cent and helped the community triple their consumption of animal source foods.

The International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) promotes cactus pear as a crop that millions of farmers in semi-arid and dry areas can use to improve their nutrition and incomes. Cactus is a multifunctional crop, mitigating drought and combating desertification. In South Asia as well as Middle-East and North Africa (MENA), the cultivation of cactus pear increases the economic viability of small and medium-sized farms of low-income farmers

Supplemental irrigation provides higher and more stable yields, a lower risk of crop failure and much higher crop water productivity, which together significantly improve farmers' incomes. Supplemental irrigation helps mitigate inconsistent seasonal rainfall, which is intensifying because of climate change. Already, frequent droughts cause substantial crop losses.

When properly managed, conservation agriculture can benefit both farmers and the environment. Conservation agriculture refers to the use of technologies and practices that enhance crop productivity while improving resource-use efficiency and soil health. As an alternative to conventional tillage for rainfed drylands, it not only saves time and labour, but also conserves water and nutrients in the soil to make crop production more resilient to climate change.

The International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) has developed high-yielding wheat varieties with resistance to extreme heat, drought, salinity, insect pests and diseases. The varieties have been adopted throughout Central and West Asia, North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa, areas highly vulnerable to climate change. This solution aims to enhance productivity, raise farmers’ incomes, create jobs and increase value addition by encouraging higher levels of wheat self-sufficiency.

The Sustainable Rangeland Management (SRM) toolkit, tested in Tunisia, lays out a scalable, holistic and multidisciplinary approach for addressing the biophysical and socio-economic trade-offs among different land uses. The toolkit helps communities, policymakers and development actors apply key sustainable rangeland management practices to targeted regions. It can play a major role in achieving a neutral level of land degradation, increased forage production and enhanced ecosystem services.

VBAs help smallholder farmers improve their farm productivity by enhancing their access to both appropriate farm inputs and information on good agronomic practice. VBAs work with all willing farmers within a community, regardless of gender, age or social status. They believe in empowering farmers to learn by doing, providing small packets of inputs like seed and fertilizer for farmers to test on their own fields with little risk.

eHakiki is an e-verification solution for tracking genuine agricultural inputs. It helps smallholder farmers protect themselves from counterfeit and adulterated inputs that would hurt their incomes and food security. The innovation was devised by Quincewood, a Tanzanian mobile services company, in collaboration with the Tanzania Seed Certification Institute. eHakiki has reached more than 350,000 farmers.

The automated credit-scoring system allows smallholder farmers to more easily access loans. The system enables savings and credit cooperative societies (SACCOs) and farmers’ organizations to access in real time farmers’ historical financial data and better determine their creditworthiness. So far, Amtech has reached 89,000 farmers, one-third of the farmers they have in their database. Amtech plans to mobilize the other two-thirds over the next two years.

Kumé is an IFAD-supported platform created by Fundación ACUA (Afro-descendant Cultural Assets Foundation). By commercializing gastronomic products and services that promote culture, traditional knowledge and local crops, ACUA enhances the visibility of rural Afro-descendant communities in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. Through the platform, chefs in rural territories offer live online cooking classes for participants in major cities. Using traditional recipes, the chefs showcase their cultures, territories and traditional practices.

Mechanized raised-bed (MRB) irrigation is a field-configuration technology that enhances water use efficiency in dryland conditions. This technology, along with improved crop varieties and agronomic practices, is part of a MRB production package that improves farm productivity and income. For wheat in Egypt, MRB led to an average 25 percent increase in yield, more than 60 percent increase in water productivity and about 20 percent in farming cost reduction.

Circular farming project harnesses challenging geography and reduces poverty in mountainous area

Reducing poverty with better infrastructure in county with scarce arable land

New ICTs help Guatemalan coffee farmers respond to climate change.

Harnessing the power of ICTs to improve agricultural extension services in Malawi

A low-cost tool that measures food dryness

Providing safe and innovative bioherbicide, designed by and for smallholders.

Building food security with an agribusiness e-finance system.

Promoting proficiency and sustainable development to increase incomes and alleviate poverty

Creating employment opportunities and enhancing environmental protection by modernizing agriculture

Digitizing the agricultural inputs subsidy program to increase agricultural productivity among smallholder farmers in Rwanda

Gradual poverty alleviation by marketing local specialties and tourism

A variety of measures help develop the economics of a popular regional product and reduce poverty

Participatory fora for dialogue and decision-making among civil society and public institutions.

Connecting tractor owners and smallholder farmers to ensure faster planting.

A tool to help smallholder farmers avoid devastating financial losses.

An inclusive methodology to promote sustainable access to natural resources.

Improving water quality with natural infrastructure.

Promoting sales of agricultural products through a web platform to transform local ressources and increase employment — Shuyang Case

Enabling the Malian diaspora to lend small amounts in support of micro-entrepreneurs in Mali.

Improving developing countries’ capacities to obtain and access domestic and global agricultural information through CropWatch

Enabling grass-roots agricultural extension workers to acquire timely information and knowledge in China

Women, work and peace: Training women to overcome conflict and natural disasters

A platform that allows agribusinesses to work more efficiently and manage data.

Helping hard-to-reach smallholder famers improve household food security and generate income.

Addressing an essential need of the fish vending women: credit at a reasonable rate of interest.

Offline access to country-specific information on a range of agricultural topics.

Improving food security by reducing post-harvest loss in fishery through better processing

Collective planning and action results in more ownership, better skills and higher incomes.

Char land formed by rivers and tides provides a chance of security and income for landless people.

Helping salt farmers improve their livelihoods through solar pumps

Developing supply chains and community groups for producers and SMEs.

Charcoal produced as a by-product of daily cooking becomes a livelihood opportunity.

Spate irrigation provides an effective solution during times of water shortage

A voice for rural farmers in MERCOSUR countries.

Tackling malnutrition through knowledge sharing and practical demonstrations among farmers

Through expert advice, farmers improve the health of their crops and access best practices.

Sustainable, export-oriented small businesses to produce cashmere, mohair and wool.

Enterprise-based solutions for reuse of domestic and agro-industrial waste

Offering financial services through post offices in remote areas.

SMS and radio shows introduced productivity-enhancing technologies to 2 million farmers.

Facilitating smallholders' access to working capital to improve food and income security.

Technology transfer to enhance rural livelihoods and natural resource management.

Strong information flow within a supply chain for better outcomes.

Policy debate and discussion among groups of influencers creates change for poor people.

Drip micro-irrigation to increase yields and save water.

Improving soil fertility and combating flood damage through bocage agroforestry.

Empowering women through better access to agricultural tools.

A new way to access collateral for loans.

Knowledge-sharing initiative to boost agricultural innovation.

Giving entrepreneurs the skills and tools to build their ideas into businesses.

Developing Pastoral Units to support natural resource management in Senegal.

Uniting local organizations improves farmers' incomes.

Using sustainable apiculture to offset climate change.

Technology and training connect farmers with resources for business growth.

A collective approach to commercializing small-scale agriculture.

New data measurement capabilities could hold the key to building climate change resilience.

India’s trend for mobile tech helped create a powerful knowledge network.

Supporting fishing communities against exploitative creditors.

Promoting equality within family units to support broader social change.

Adapting to climate change through soil-friendly agricultural practices.

Environmentally similar countries can pool resources to accelerate agricultural development.

Local and international groups collaborate to restore a tradition of outstanding coffee.

Portable power from cost-effective eco-friendly biogas systems.

Group-based support project helped new char-area residents build social capital.

Diaspora communities act as powerful agents of development for their country.

Adding female voices to agricultural radio programmes empowered communities in Africa.