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AgriTech Digital Climate-Smart Agriculture a solution to build resilient agrifood value chains in Africa
Building Resilient Food Systems through Digital Climate-Smart Agriculture
Climate change poses major risks for food production, livelihoods and nutrition through high temperatures, erratic rainfall, drought, flooding, and sea level rise. On the flip side, agriculture and food systems produce almost a third of global greenhouse gas emissions—yet they could be a global carbon sink.
Mobile digital devices such as laptops, smartphones, digital cameras, pagers, personal navigation device, and wearable computers have allowed Africa’s farmers to access and share information with different stakeholders. These mobile digital devices can be connected to remote sensing data devices that alert farmers well in advance on forthcoming climate and weather conditions such as droughts and floods. This provides an answer to the evasive Agricultural Risk Management.
e-Learning Employee Productivity – Key to Organizational Success
Improve Employee Productivity with e-Learning
Employee productivity improvement in the workplace is a crucial duty that can be accomplished by ongoing skill development, such as re-skilling and upskilling. E-learning is the only option in these circumstances because traditional training methodologies can be expensive, time-consuming, and tedious, especially for remote and distributed workforces, with rapid changes in business, structure, and strategy.
Open innovation The power of open minds: How open innovation offers benefits for all
Establish a foundation for Open innovation success
Open innovation is a transformation paradigm where companies utilize external ideas as well as internal and external paths to develop new products.
Practically; open innovation is the practice of collaborating with external entities such as startups, universities, other corporations, non-profits, etc. to co-create new value, rather than relying only on internal knowledge and resources.
Enhancing the outcomes of open innovation requires establishing the right foundation for open innovation success as well as implementing specific actions to further increase the effectiveness of open innovation initiatives.