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The Community Knowledge Workers model – A success story

Posted in QUICKWIN PROJECTS, tagged , , on October 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

“Melinda and I believe that helping the poorest smallholder farmers grow more and get it to market is the world’s single most powerful lever for reducing hunger and poverty.” – Bill Gates
One of the five AGCommons’ Quick Win Projects, the Community Level Crop Disease Surveillance has achieved an important result: as a component of the larger Community [...]

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“Ask Me”… AGCommons Crop Disease project hits the news on the New York Times on line

Posted in IN THE MEDIA, QUICKWIN PROJECTS, tagged , on October 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

“Mobile phone has revolutionized scientists’ ability to track crop disease and communicate the latest scientific advances to remote farmers” says the article on NYTimes.com on the Crop Disease project, one of the five “quickwin” AGCommons projects.

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Community Knowledge Workers are Going Bananas

Posted in QUICKWIN PROJECTS, tagged , on August 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

 
From June 17th – 19th 2009, the Grameen Foundation, the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and Uganda’s National Agriculture Research Institute (NARO) conducted a 3 day joint training program in Uganda’s Mbale District.  The training focused on transforming 20 Community Knowledge Workers (CKWs) into “Mobile Banana Disease Monitors”.

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