Invitation to the e-Agriculture webinar "FarmerLink in the Philippines: Digital Innovation for Agriculture"
Dear e-Agriculture CoP Member,
The e-Agriculture Team in conjunction with Grameen Foundation are pleased to invite you to the 'FarmerLink in the Philippines : Digital Innovation for Agriculture' Webinar on the 25th of April 2018 at 3 p.m Rome Time.
About this webinar
Grameen Foundation, in collaboration with the Philippine Coconut Authority, Franklin Baker, and People’s Bank of Caraga launched FarmerLink to increase farming households’ incomes and resilience by improving their productivity, providing them access to appropriate financial products and services, linking them directly to markets, and reducing their losses to pests, diseases and weather calamities.
The program used a suite of digital interventions to direct and leverage existing field officer networks in deploying the mobile tools and offering one-to-one extension services to farmers.An early warning system was developed and deployed to directly send weather, pest, and diseases advisories to farmers’ mobile phones, along with practical advice to minimize losses.
The webinar will present the strategy used to develop and deploy FarmerLink, and review results of an 18-month pilot implementation
Webinar Details
- Title FarmerLink in the Philippines: Digital Innovation for Agriculture
- Date Wednesday 25 April, 3 pm CEST (Check Your City Time)
- Duration 1hour with 15 minutes for questions
- Registration https://goo.gl/hwcN7R
Presenter : Ana Herrera Ana Herrera is a Senior Program Manager with Grameen Foundation’s Digital Innovations for Agriculture Program. She is an international development professional with 14 years of experience in program development and execution, consortium building, and fundraising with expertise in implementing digital solutions for agriculture and rural development. The approach is now being applied in Ghana to reach 240,000 cocoa farmers, with the added capacity of satellite imagery in helping to inform the Digital Farmer Development Plans and their implementation. Previously Ana managed mobile agricultural programs in Ghana and Kenya, and provided support for projects om Colombia. Ana received a Bachelor of Arts, Major in Management Economics, at Ateneo de Manila University. |
Regards,
e-Agriculture Team