This digital dashboard provides a summary of the various types of innovations available to pastoralists and agro-pastoralists in dryland regions in SPARC focus countries.
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SimPastoralist is a gaming app that introduces pastoralists, agro-pastoralists, policy makers and other relevant stakeholders to index-based livestock insurance by simulating livestock ownership with and without insurance during good seasons and times of drought.
The Smallholders Farmers Rural Radio broadcasts educational radio programmes on crop cultivation, livestock rearing and soil management 10 hours per day in the local Igbo language to inform and educate its 250,000 small-farmer listeners and improve their agricultural, environmental management and market access capacity.
Thola allows investment in superior production bulls, carefully selected for their genetic quality that increases supply of good semen in the market and opens global distribution opportunities into emerging markets like Africa. This also helps increase cattle production and access to rich animal protein.