Closing #webinar | #D4Ag online dialogue on shaping digital agriculture capacities | Wed 15/12/21 @ 2PM-3:30PM CET

 

Over the past three weeks, the Digital Agri Hub with the support of the Dgroups Foundation, has been hosting an online dialogue to identify capacity opportunities, gaps, priority needs and best-bet learning solutions for people and organizations working with digital agriculture.

Specifically, at the dialogue kick-off webinar and in the subsequent email-based exchanges, dialogue’s participants have been pinning down the perceived capacity needs of three stakeholder groups - implementers (extension services, farmers organisations, NGOs, etc.); enablers (policy makers,  government and international organisations, etc.); and D4Ag service / solution providers (organisations or individuals providing services in the domain of digitalisation for agriculture, including innovations and data infrastructure).

Are you curious to know what emerged from this dialogue? Do you want to know more and add your voice and ideas to the dialogue outcomes and results?
 

Join us for the D4Ag dialogue closing webinar on 15 December and contribute to shape and deliver digital agriculture capacities for the future!

Register here >> https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYqc-Ggrj8vEtG9ThuSg45tGo9bSaBlUByL

Landscaping the Agritech Ecosystem for Smallholder Farmers in Latin America and the Caribbean.

 Promotional video for the report “Landscaping the Agritech Ecosystem for Smallholder Farmers in Latin America and the Caribbean.” Based on the review of 131 digital agriculture tools, this report, prepared by GSMA and IDB Lab, provides a market mapping and landscape analysis of the most prominent cases of digital disruption. It highlights some of the major trends observed in five digital agriculture use cases, identifies opportunities for digital interventions, and concludes with recommendations for future engagement that could deliver long-term, sustainable economic and social benefits for smallholder farmers.

Shaping digital agriculture capacities - A D4Ag online dialogue - Zoom Kick-off session on Friday 19 Nov 2021 from 1400 - 1530 CET

Do you work with digital technologies, innovations or data to deliver and transform agriculture and food systems?

Join a global network of 1,200 people to help shape future investments in digital agriculture (#D4Ag) capacities

From 19 November to 10 December, the Digital Agri Hub’s online D4Ag dialogue aims to identify capacity gaps, opportunities, priority needs and best-bet learning solutions for people and organizations working with digital agriculture. Supported by the Dgroups Foundation, the online dialogue combines two virtual (Zoom) sessions with email based, facilitated discussions, in a rich and dynamic process.

Join us on Zoom for the dialogue kick-off session on 19 November 2021 from 1400 – 1530 CET:

• Learn about the dialogue and how to participate 
• Meet other D4Ag professionals
• See what capacity building initiatives already exist 
• Together, start to shape and deliver digital agriculture capacities for the future!

Register here >> https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0rf-mhrTojHtLHKxHT3pdKq7jmOaJjUkB6

Developing a policy framework for adoption and management of drones for agriculture in Africa

This paper proposes a drone policy framework for developing drone regulations for Africa, expediting the individual countries’ developing drone regulations. This research was conducted following concerns raised by individuals and businesses whose imported drones were seized by customs or had to go through a cumbersome process for approval to use drones for lack of regulations. To derive the policy framework, we matched the provisions of 15 existing drone regulations from Africa to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Manual on Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS) using a decomposition modelling technique. The proposed framework is presented as a formal business process model and is evaluated in a multi-case study approach in two different case studies. 

The results indicate that two key aspects/elements are crucial in the development of a drone framework and thus are included in our framework: (i) stakeholders’ inclusion in the policy development and (ii) regulators liaising with security agencies like the police and immigration officials to implement and enforce developed regulations. 

Applying the proposed framework in describing existing regulations reveals that 40-85% of provisions in existing regulations conform to the provisions in ICAO’s RPAS manual.

Citation:

Matthew Ayamga, Bedir Tekinerdogan, Ayalew Kassahun & Giacomo Rambaldi (2021) Developing a policy framework for adoption and management of drones for agriculture in Africa, Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, 33:8, 970-987, DOI: 10.1080/09537325.2020.1858047

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