Seeing is believing is the name of one of our AGCommons supported projects, one that seeks to demonstrate the value of very high resolution imagery to help scale up a few quick-win productivity enhancement technologies in 10 smallholder communities across Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mali and Niger. The project is coordinated by Pierre T. Sibiry of ICRISAT, one of the...

At the beginning of this year, three different banana diseases were attacking East Africa, devastating farms around the region and exacerbating the prevailing food crisis. To help prevent the spread of such diseases, it is vital that smallholder farmers have access to comprehensive information about crop conditions in the region. As it is, such information is...

AGCommons a CGIAR-delivered project using maps and other local information to help farmers in rural Africa In Africa, for Africa, with Africa.

Throughout most of the developing world, there is a real and urgent need for roads data.  Road location and attribute information can play a vital role in long term development applications and also help humanitarian agencies with short term emergency and logistical planning. Despite this dire need, though, popular web mapping service applications have not explored...

The KM4DEV Rome group is organizing a one-day event on Thursday, October 29 (08.30 – 18.30), hosted at the Headquarters of the International Development Law Organization (IDLO), entitled ‘Knowledge Sharing: Getting Together to Do It Better’. There will be sessions on common issues related to Knowledge Management and Knowledge Sharing among the Rome-based...