Digital agriculture knowledge assets Digitalisation
CTA helped drive the agenda for digitalisation for development, supporting new technologies, farmer profiling and training as well as monitoring the uptake of digital tools in a flagship report, the Digitalisation of African Agriculture.
Overview
Until 2020, CTA supported the development and deployment of digital tools to help increase profitability and productivity, and strengthen business innovations. As part of this, CTA promoted precision agriculture solutions, including data gathering by satellites and drones, weather information and soil sensors as well as other data driven farming practices. CTA also supported access to new financial services for farmers including index-based insurance.