Design and develop AI digital apps for the provision of digital extension advisory services and technologies linking farmers to multimedia advisory content that is culturally and ecologically relevant and specific;
Digital tools are pervasive worldwide for various agricultural applications, including resilience, environmental, and food security development efforts. Globally, reliance on digital tools to do everything from looking up a weather forecast on a smartphone to automating the analysis of complicated datasets through cloud computing is set to increase further over time. In the context of sustainable development, this can manifest in unequal geographic spread, accessibility, usability, and benefits from digital solutions. Where smallholder farmers are born, what gender they identify as, their age and education level, the social norms they have grown up with, and many other factors impact their ability to benefit from digital technologies effectively. Considering universal factors, this research undertook an understanding of the various agricultural social networks before designing and deploying digital tools relevant to the smallholder farmer contexts (which this research refers to as Indigenous knowledge systems). Thus, this research designed and developed a prototype of a digital platform aggregating small-scale holders into a common platform that enables them to share information amongst their networks for digital literacy, provide a common platform for accessing extension advice, access to market information via the platform sample of source codes
