Building Africa’s first “e-Extension Platform” for smallholder farmers

    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Gap Report Initiative (author)
    Format:
    Blog posting
    Publication Date:
    2021-02-24
    URL:
    https://vtechworks.lib.vt.edu/bitstream/handle/10919/107717/Building%20Africa%e2%80%99s%20first%20%e2%80%9ce-Extension%20Platform%e2%80%9d%20for%20smallholder%20farmers.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y
    Published:
    United States: Virginia Tech University, Blacksburg, Virginia.
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 204 Document Number: D12519
    Subject Term:
    Africa, communication, development, extension programs, extension systems, information, mobile communication systems, radio, technology, ICT, applications (apps), and COVID-19
    Notes:
    4 pages., Sasakawa Africa Association shares their approach to strengthening the resilience of food systems in Africa through innovative approaches using information and communication technologies. he Sasakawa Africa Association (SAA) was established in 1986 by Ryoichi Sasakawa, the first chairman of the Nippon Foundation; Dr. Norman Borlaug, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and father of the Green Revolution; and former US President, Jimmy Carter; in response to the famine in the Horn of Africa in the 1980s. Since then, SAA has strengthened agricultural extension services in 16 countries in Africa. Currently, we have offices in Ethiopia, Mali, Nigeria and Uganda, where we focus on field activities and human resource development at universities and other educational institutions. We also implement human resource development projects in Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Malawi, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, and Tanzania.

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