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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Hydroponics Africa’s simplified hydroponic farming technology enables farmers to produce both food crops and livestock fodder without the use of soil. This technique uses a mineral nutrient solution in a water solvent and has proven to be safe, fast, more economical and, most important, sustainable.
Breed Pedigree and Livestock Management System provides breeders with a simple to use database to maintain records of their livestock. Comprehensive details can be recorded for each animal, this allows upto a 5 generation pedigree to be viewed or printed, and a powerful search function enables livestock to be retrieved at any time. A diary, mating and award history can be kept for each animal. Full offspring statistics can be viewed for all livestock used for breeding; this can include colour, breed, gender, etc.
iCow is an integrated ecosystem of services and tools that leverages information and communications technologies and partnerships to improve smallholder farmer prosperity by optimizing production systems using regenerative practices. The iCow broadcasting services send SMS messages to registered iCow small-scale farmers in Kenya on a daily, weekly, or alert basis. This approach ensures that farmers get information consistently.