5-Day Deep Dive into Agriculture Innovation and Technology for Sustainable Professional Advancement
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29/04/2024-03/05/2024 Agriculture Innovation and Technology for Sustainable Development
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INTRODUCTION
Agricultural innovations are defined as a process whereby individuals or organizations bring new or existing products, processes, or ways of organization into use for the first, are capable of improving household food security status, ensuring sustainable natural resource management, creating employment, and reducing poverty. In agriculture, innovations and technologies aim to increase effectiveness, competitiveness, resilience to shocks, or environmental sustainability. Following the dynamic nature of technologies and innovations and the importance of agriculture in contributing to rural population livelihoods, Information Communication Technology presents an opportunity for rural farmers to increase their productivity. This 5-day course will equip the participants with knowledge on the use of ICT in agriculture to enhance productivity and increase effectiveness and efficiency across the agricultural value chain.
DURATION
5 days
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
- Agricultural extension officers,
- Research organizations
- Non-government organizations
- Agriculture support activities and other Development programs.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Upon completion of the course, participants will be able to:
- Identify different ICT technologies applied in agriculture
- Gain basic skills in ICT in agriculture.
- Understand the importance of integration of ICT in agribusiness
- Identify current ICT trends to agriculture
- Understand current trends in ICTs as they pertain to agriculture and the contributions that ICT can make to enhance agricultural strategies and their implementation.
- Analyze both the opportunities and the pitfalls that emerge when working with technology to improve agricultural outcomes
- Understand the application of ICT in farm production, inventory management, and marketing and in extension services.
- Gain knowledge on gender equitable skills in ICT development in agriculture which is a major player towards rural development.
TOPICS TO BE COVERED
Module 1: Introduction to ICT in agricultural development
- Mobile devices and services and their impact on agriculture and rural development
- Gender-equitable, ICT-enabled agricultural development
- Increasing crop, livestock, and fishery productivity through ICT
Module 2: ICTs as enablers of agricultural innovation systems
- Broadening smallholders’ access to financial services through ICT
- ICT application in farmer organizations
- ICT enabled agricultural extension
Module 3: Strengthening agricultural marketing with ICT
- ICT applications for smallholder inclusion in agribusiness supply chains
- ICT applications for agricultural risk management
- Improving food safety and traceability while empowering smallholders through ICT
Module 4: Strengthening rural governance, institutions, and citizen participation using ICT
- Field visit to the organization using ICT in agriculture
Module 5:
- ICT for land administration and management
- Inventory management with ICT
- GIS and RS application in agriculture
TRAINING CUSTOMIZATION
This training can also be customized for your institution upon request. You can also have it delivered to your preferred location.
REQUIREMENTS
Participants should be reasonably proficient in English. During the training, participants should come with their laptops.
TRAINING FEE
Cost:
In-person USD 1000
Online USD 900
Registration
April in-person/online
July in-person/online
October in-person/online
Payment should be transferred to the FineResults Research Services bank account one week before the training date and proof of payment sent to our email.
For any registration of 3 or more participants; we offer a discount of up to 10%. This course fee covers the course tuition, training materials, two break refreshments, lunch, and study visits for in-person training.ACCOMMODATION
Accommodation is arranged upon request.
PAYMENT
Payment should be transferred to FineResults Research Limited bank before the commencement of training.
CANCELLATION POLICY
- All requests for cancellations must be received in writing.
- Changes will become effective on the date of written confirmation being received.
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Schedules
| Weekdays | 08:00 AM — 04:00 PM |
| Weekdays | 08:00 AM — 04:00 PM |
| Weekdays | 08:00 AM — 04:00 PM |
FineResults Research Services offers training solutions to individuals, communities, governments and civil society organizations, both local and international.
We also provide application-oriented and field-based consultancy services in all aspects of research and evaluations from inception to completion. This includes research designs, designing monitoring and evaluations systems, technical reviews, programme evaluations, questionnaire validation, data collection, data capture, data analysis and report writing. FineResults Research Services is a limited company incorporated under the laws of Kenya. Its head office is in Nairobi Kenya.
The organization has a wide range of experience working with both local and international organizations in both consultancies and capacity building in Africa and beyond.
MissionA world class training and research organization for the realization of individuals, organizations and community welfare.
VisionTo provide world class training and research services that increase individuals and organizations productivity in their development role.
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