Harnessing Data to Enhance Agricultural & Food Security
Food security remains a critical priority, especially in rapidly growing regions like sub-Saharan Africa. DG harnesses data to help decision-makers understand agricultural, economic, and market systems, enabling timely, targeted support for farmers. By focusing on strengthening larger systems, we work to ensure smallholder farmers can access the information they need. We also build tools with partners to support information sharing, streamline processes, and ensure data quality and long-term sustainability, integrating learning strategies throughout to enable high-quality decision-making and results.
The Soil Nutrient Roadmap
The Soil Nutrient Roadmap helps governments translate soil health targets into costed, sequenced national plans – linking nutrient gaps to budgets, policies, and investment decisions.
a Livestock Information Vision Ethiopia (aLIVE) Program
The aLIVE program is fulfilling the needs of livestock decision-makers in Ethiopia by improving the accessibility and reliability of livestock data. The overall goal of aLIVE is to support Ethiopia in meeting national food demands as well as achieving food security while building a more robust, independent economy.
Digital Advisory Support Services for Accelerated Rural Transformation (DAS) Program
The DAS Program seeks to advance food security across Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia by advancing access to and use of technological solutions that support smallholder farmers.
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Building a Sustainable Cashew Sector in West Africa Through Data and Collaboration
Cashew-IN project came to an end in August 2024 after four years of working with government agencies, producers, traders, processors, and development partners in the five implementing countries to co-create an online tool aimed to inform, support, promote, and strengthen Africa’s cashew industry. This blog outlines some of the key project highlights, including some of the challenges we faced, lessons learned, success stories, and identified opportunities for a more competitive cashew sector in West Africa.
Unlocking Africa’s Agricultural Potential: Introducing the Soil Nutrient Roadmap
For over a decade, Development Gateway: An IREX Venture (DG) has been at the forefront of digital agriculture, leveraging agricultural data to support input monitoring, value chain analysis, and farmer-centric governance models. With funding from the Gates Foundation, DG is launching the Soil Nutrient Roadmap (SNR), a cutting-edge initiative using geospatial data to estimate current and future soil and crop nutrient requirements.