Impact of the Digital Services for Agriculture in Laikipia County

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Thomas Ayuaki

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What is the Goal of the Podcast? To provide an intellectual space where the role and impact of ICT on improved livelihoods, education, advocacy, and socio-economic development can be explored and shared with the public. The series will also spend a significant period exploring ACWICT’s journey during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, and how it shaped our implementation of programs, outlook, and integration of technology to be able to scale up our reach and impact the larger society, and more importantly, the way forward as we recover from the challenges that came about during this very

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Impact of the Digital Services for Agriculture in Laikipia County | featuring Mr. James Mungere

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Impact of the Digital Services for Agriculture in Laikipia County | featuring Mr. James Mungere

Over the past few years ACWICT in partnership with UK DAP have been in the frontlines implementing the Digital services for Agriculture program that has a main goal of increasing access and utilisation of relevant digital agricultural content for sustainable agriculture and food security in Laikipia county & the larger part of Kenya.

During this period, we have been able to reach over 50,000 farmers with our Digital skilling program and a further 500,000 through awareness creation initiatives that have leveraged on Digital and Social media resources County Government sponsored events and skilling programs that were championed by extension officers and champion farmers.

In what is the beginning of our documentation of the impact of the DSA Program we catchup with the former Dir/chief Officer of the Agricultural ministry and champion farmer in Laikipia County, Mr. James Mungere to shine a light on just how the program impacted the agricultural community in Laikipia, there view on the integration of Information Technology in Agriculture and what they believe the future holds for the farmers in Laikipia willing to embrace the power of tech and opportunities it brings to various value chains