Why is the traditional knowledge of African agriculture disappearing?

The young generation of smallholder farmers aren’t aware of indigenous knowledge.

Indeed, Africa farmers are mostly experiencing modern agriculture using imported inputs letting expect better productivity than in former times led by their old parents. Nevertheless African agriculture is still unproductive and the food deficit is increasing in many areas of Africa.

The indigenous knowledge in agriculture is not learned at modern schools and there is a common agreement asserting that indigenous knowledge in agriculture doesn’t matter.

The traditional languages what are the support of indigenous knowledge are also shrinking as well as indigenous knowledge mostly used in climate change resilience; in choosing right period of seeding by best weather forecasting; in mixing crops for best productivity; in storage crops during a long-run, in preparing seeds and planting required to face a long dry season and so on.

In the same few scarce seeds for feeding the population in periods of hunger as well as serving for medicines for humans and for domestic animals are disappearing due to the lack of know-how in the field, disappointed by modern technologies used in agriculture and livestock in a lot of remote rural areas of Africa.

Agenda:

  • Antoine Kantiza: Why is the traditional knowledge of African agriculture disappearing?
  • Didier Muyiramye: Documentation and Dissemination of African Agriculture Indigenous Knowledge: The role of digital technologies in bridguing the knowledge gaps

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Introduction to Business Plan: What is it, what does it it and how to care about it?

Most people want to start their business just by jumping in and doing «it». If they would dedicate some time to the planning and forming a sensible business plan, they would save both time and money. So let’s take a look at how they are formed in ESA BIC Prague.

Agenda:

  • What is the Business plan?
  • Lean canvas
  • TRL
  • SWAT an risks
  • Market analysis
  • Gantt chart
  • Conclusion

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Webinar Replay on Using the Atlas of Best Practice to Fight COVID-19 in Rural Areas

Agenda of the webinar:

  • Welcome from the moderator
  • Hackathon introduction and quick overview of 3 challenges: similarities and differences
  • Atlas of the Best Practices (the Enabling project) – common technical platform for presentation of outputs of individual Challenges
  • Ch. 2 presentation
    • goals, the Atlas prototype – Regional Specialities, Expected outputs, brainstorming
  • Ch. 6 presentation
    • goals, the Atlas prototype – Polirural, Expected outputs, brainstorming
  • Ch. 12 presentation
    • goals, the Atlas prototype – Social Enterprises, Expected outputs, brainstorming
  • general Q&A
  • Conclusion

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Rural Attractiveness Visualization

Agenda of the webinar:

  • Introduction to the challenge #4 → Goals, tasks, working groups
  • About Polirural project: Overview over the approach and aims of the project & presentation of the 12 pilot regions
  • Rural Attractiveness: General understanding of rural attractiveness / Principles of searching of homogeneous regions (rural attractiveness index, clustering)
  • The web map application: Features and functionalities / Brief technical details / Input data
  • Ideas for potential improvements of the map application

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