AFRICA AGRICULTURE STATUS REPORT 2016

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CHAPTER 8 Modernization of Agriculture through Digital Technology AUTHORS Hortense Mudenge Milan Innovincy Consultant Washington Otieno CABI AFRICA AGRICULTURE STATUS REPORT 2016 169
KEY MESSAGES ONE The African continent has shown tremendous economic growth in the last decade based on the GDP per capita estimates with increasing investment in infrastructure, agriculture and trade. This has been largely influenced by the high level of political will and initiatives in these sectors and the increasing use of digital technology platforms in facilitating service delivery. Key challenges remain in sub-Saharan African countries however as regards scaling and sustaining this success. TWO Advances in digital technology are transforming the agricultural sector, quickly aggregating farmers and farm level data that is helping boost financial inclusion for smallholder farmers. Emerging technologies are also being integrated with mobile technology that is pervasive in SSA to scale and replicate success across the agricultural sector. This leads to networked value chains that have helped increase productivity at farm level, facilitated access to markets, and created cost efficiencies across value chains. THREE Smallholder farmers and farmer organizations are still facing challenges with information flow and management due to limited financial resources and technical knowhow for applying technologies needed to mitigate effects of climatic change. New technologies are also too complex and sophisticated for smallholder farmers to use, which has limited their adoption and impact. FOUR Governments and decision makers are intervening in the development and promotion of digital technology in the agricultural sector by fostering multistakeholder partnerships to promote the use of sustainable and climate smart ICT models so as to improve resilience to climate change and foster financial inclusion. FIVE Digital technology has the potential to catalyze all parts of the food system and is currently doing so in an inclusive and sustainable manner, targeting smallholders, women and youth. The high level political will and commitment to increased growth in the agricultural sector, observed through the enactment of regional policies is helping accelerate climate smart agriculture and financial inclusion,that has resulted in increased access to inputs and markets by smallholders and positive regional externalities. 170 AFRICA AGRICULTURE STATUS REPORT 2016
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FOREWORD Over the last decade, mill
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The Africa Agricul
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ACRONYMS Africa Lead AAS AASR AATIF
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FMARD FSN FTF GACSA GAFSP GAIN GART
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SAKSS SBCC SCARDA SCM SDG SDI SI SM
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Introduction For decades, observers
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and changing food diets associated
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Table 1.2: Population growth of sel
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Figure 1.4: Changes in annual agric
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already occurring (Headey & Jayne,
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lease of customary land without the
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Hence, the pattern of trade illustr
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Table 1.4: Changes in farm structur
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of the pathway to food and nutritio
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Jayne, T. S., Chamberlin, J., Traub
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KEY MESSAGES ONE CAADP is an unpara
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Figure 2.1.Overview of the CAADP Im
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level. The success of ReSAKSS is be
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agricultural potential, alternative
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Table 2.1: Trends in selected CAADP
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poverty fell faster during this per
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expenditure (research, extension, i
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Table 2.4. Average annual change in
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captures the individual pathways of
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MA also has to be underpinned by lo
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References African Union. (2014). M
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Meenakshi, J.V., Johnson, N.L., Man
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KEY MESSAGES ONE TWO THREE FOUR Afr
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GDP declined by 1.4 percent in 2009
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from political violence, terrorism,
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interpretation is implied, this obs
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Differences in the African pattern
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Table 3.5: Trends in types of emplo
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that would likely affect the contri
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c. Concentration of farm structure
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a. Invest in education to upgrade t
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These could include policy measures
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References African Center for Econo
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Giller, K. E., Rowe, E. C., de Ridd
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Ndung’u, N. S. (2016). Viewpoint:
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World Bank. (2015). World developme
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KEY MESSAGES ONE Although sustainab
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BOX 4.1: Components of Sustainable
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of the world. These authors also re
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Further, Locatelli et al. (2008) ha
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Climate and Weather Variability The
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Resilience of livelihoods is determ
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While acknowledging successes of SI
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Entry Points For Sustainable Intens
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BOX 4.4: The CSA Compendium: A scie
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Successful interventions include fo
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Open data combined with agricultura
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According to Tshibaka (2014), evide
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References Abdulai, A., & Delgado,
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Enfors, E. (2013). Social-ecologica
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Lipper, L., Thornton, P., Campbell,
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Toulmin, C., Leonard, R., Brock, K.
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KEY MESSAGES ONE In SSA, sustainabl
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Figure 5.1: Poverty traps framework
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Cereal Yield/Kilogram Per Hectare F
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Table 5.2: Correlation between fact
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Table 5.3: Farmer use of improved i
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Figure 5.9: Agricultural research s
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Page 133 and 134: AGRA’s Experience The observation
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Page 137 and 138: Sheahan, M., & Barrett, C. B. (2014
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Page 153 and 154: Conclusions This chapter presents t
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Page 179 and 180: Policy Recommendations This review
Page 181: Meyer, R. L. (2015, March). Financi
Page 185 and 186: Figure 8.1: Mobile phone based serv
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Page 191 and 192: Figure 8.4: Kenya leads the pack fo
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Page 195 and 196: CASE STUDY FieldLook South Sudan in
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Page 207 and 208: References Accenture. (2015). Digit
Page 209 and 210: Gustafson, S. (27.1.2016). The Digi
Page 211 and 212: Wolfenson K. D. (2013). Coping with
Page 213 and 214: KEY MESSAGES ONE A guided evolution
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CASE STUDY Regional Universities Fo
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CASE STUDY African Network for Agri
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CASE STUDY FAO—Tropical Agricultu
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Bizimana, C. (2014). Rwanda’s Ach
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Rwanda. Retrieved from http://www.m
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World Bank. (2007). Project Apprais
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KEY MESSAGES ONE The poverty rate a
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Table 10.1: Number of undernourishe
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Figure 10.6: Stunting in children u
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Why single out nutrition matters? A
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BOX 10.1: The 7 Malabo Declaration
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Reducing post-harvest losses FAO es
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BOX 10.4: Growing trend towards a m
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References African Union. (2015). T
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Schmidt, R. H., & Rodrick, G. E. (2
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“Africa is simply tired of being
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2025, tripling intra-African trade,
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towards agricultural transformation
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While agricultural research generat
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Technical Notes The following conve
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Madagascar 72.6 72.3 72.1 71.8 71.2
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Madagascar 2.81 -15.28 6.54 2.19 1.
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Madagascar 351.1 337.2 332.9 323.7
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Madagascar 2,020 1,967 2,202 2,354
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Madagascar 86.0 84.2 87.3 91.8 103.
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Mali .. .. 52.0 15.7 17.5 31.1 22.5
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Madagascar -0.0053 -0.0075 0.0073 -
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Malawi 401.9 405.1 437.2 438.9 511.
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Madagascar 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.6
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Madagascar 0.9 1.0 1.6 1.9 2.8 5.6
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Liberia .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..
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Liberia 2.0 1.9 1.8 1.7 1.5 1.3 1.5
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