Apart from food security, these technologies can create employment in Africa according to Dr Agnes Kalibata of the Alliance for Green Revolution in Africa .
At just 33, Caleb Karuga was declared redundant by a local media house in Kenya. He did not mourn; instead he took his cheque and fell back into his hobby; farming. Things were different for him in business. It is then that he turned to the internet reading and researching about agribusiness. With the benefit of hindsight, he decided to train those like him who may want to start agribusiness, but have no prior knowledge on the trade.
The Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation indicates that digital technologies in agriculture may help contribute to ending global hunger by 2030, though the transformation of the current agrifood systems. Expert Dr Agnes Kalibata of AGRA agrees.
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