{"id":1404,"date":"2018-07-16T09:33:41","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T09:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/?p=1404"},"modified":"2018-07-16T10:08:02","modified_gmt":"2018-07-16T10:08:02","slug":"harnessing-use-of-agricultural-data-to-help-smallholder-farmers-in-kenya-manage-climate-change-effects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/2018\/07\/16\/harnessing-use-of-agricultural-data-to-help-smallholder-farmers-in-kenya-manage-climate-change-effects\/","title":{"rendered":"Harnessing use of agricultural data to help smallholder farmers in Kenya manage climate change effects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Photo-Boniface-Akuku.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1407\" src=\"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Photo-Boniface-Akuku-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"133\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Photo-Boniface-Akuku-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Photo-Boniface-Akuku-768x961.jpg 768w, https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Photo-Boniface-Akuku-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Photo-Boniface-Akuku-624x781.jpg 624w, https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Photo-Boniface-Akuku.jpg 853w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 133px) 100vw, 133px\" \/><\/a>This blog post was written by Boniface Akuku,\u00a0who is currently<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0the Director of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) at the Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO).<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The good or promising practice are about the various use of ICTs for agriculture or rural development. Following 2017 call for Good and Promising Practices in Agriculture this paper was selected for review and publication. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/fao_blog.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1405\" src=\"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/fao_blog.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"258\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/fao_blog.png 637w, https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/fao_blog-221x300.png 221w, https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/fao_blog-624x847.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 258px) 100vw, 258px\" \/><\/a>The paper asserts that development of an agro-weather tool and digitizing agricultural value chain is a promising practice for climate smart agriculture in Kenya. The author further contends that the various constraints and challenges facing smallholder farmers in Kenya can be addressed by harnessing use of data from agricultural researchers and meteorologists. In addition, improving access to these datasets as well as creating value and obtaining insight from the datasets can be achieved effectively by embracing a paradigm shift towards creating value from data through application of ICT and disruptive technologies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fao.org\/3\/i9235en\/I9235EN.pdf\">Read the full paper<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This blog post was written by Boniface Akuku,\u00a0who is currently\u00a0the Director of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) at the Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO). The good or promising practice are about the various use of ICTs for agriculture or rural development. Following 2017 call for Good and Promising Practices in Agriculture this paper [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1404"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1411,"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404\/revisions\/1411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}