To jumpstart AGCommons, 5 “quick win” projects were identified and implemented to deliver needed solutions immediately and provide an internal learning opportunity for the Program proponents. These projects were selected because they build on existing work, will deliver measurable impacts within a year, and offer potential for scaling up benefits to farmers in the future. For example, developing a data set now would allow specific applications to be built for later use.
The selected quick-win projects (see below), which have now been completed, cover a range of technologies and African countries and regions. They also span a variety of different links with end-users – from direct work with farmers (the “Seeing Is Believing” project) to collaboration at the research level to create access to valuable data sets that can be used on the farmers’ behalf (the “Africa Trial Sites Catalogue”).
The Final Report Executive Summary of each project is available for download at the project’s pages.
This page has the following sub pages.
- Seeing Is Believing: unlocking precision agriculture in West African smallholder communities with very high resolution imagery.
- Nodes of growth: Improving legume seed networks in Kenya
- Roads Data Development in Ethiopia
- Community Level Crop Disease Surveillance
- Africa Trial Sites Catalogue: Reaching out to farmers, agronomists and plant breeders with spatially efficient, participatory testing networks
