1.1. Digital for impact: digital capabilities as accelerators to support the transformation of agrifood systems 19
VIDEO Digital application of: food safety in response to COVID-19 and beyond
Country updates
The project was completed in October 2022 in Iraq, where the app was configured/customized, and content is now ready to be launched with three themes: AgriMarketPlace, plant production, livestock and the
farmer´s forum. The application is called “El Rafidain for Agriculture Extension” and is presented in three languages: Arabic, English and Kurdish. Bangladesh has been using the DSP framework to develop an app for fresh markets, adding new capabilities, replicating the behaviour of Google Maps. In October, a new project in two countries – Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan – was initiated to deliver messages to livestock farmers on meat production and dairy production.
A new capability has also been developed to deliver particular themes in specific areas of the country of the roll out, for example to Zanzibar in the United Republic of Tanzania. Algeria, Mauritania, Morocco, Tunisia: an important meeting for the introduction of DSP was organized and preparatory steps for a meeting with the Ministry of Agriculture in Tunisia to introduce the DSP app and start the development process of the app are ongoing.
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