Chris Addison
Sr Programme Coordinator Data4Ag, CTA
At CTA since March 2012
Biography
Chris Addison is Senior Coordinator of Data for Agriculture, at CTA. He has worked in ICT for development for 25 years. His Data4Ag experience started while working at the International Food Policy Research Institute to develop the Global Hunger Index, a linked open data set, and working on the openAIRE programme. Addison is currently running a series of CTA activities to support better use of Data4Ag through farmer-led businesses and organisations.
Articles
A declaration for the better use of West Africa’s agricultural open data
by Didier Muyiramye , André Laperrière and Chris Addison
Government delegates from French-speaking African countries met to discuss the importance of open data in economic and social development.
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Farm data supports agricultural decision-making in Burundi
by Didier Muyiramye , Annick Sezibera and Chris Addison
The CTA-funded project, Monitoring Family Farms Within CAPAD Member Cooperatives, aims to improve agricultural product development and marketing activities through the trial and use of ICTs. These technical developments are intended to better support farmer members of the Confederation of Agricultural Producer Associations for Development (CAPAD), in Burundi.
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Publications
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Whole-family approach to agricultural market success
This brief describes how Women in Business Development Incorporated (WIBDI), a non-profit organisation in Samoa, works with farming families to produce high-value products for local and global markets. Shifting away from a women-focused approach, WIBDI now uses an approach that involves the whole family, keeping all family members on board. It has also invested in digital applications and resources to increase the efficiency of operations, profile the producers and their products, and facilitate engagement with markets and customers.
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From open weather data to accessible weather information services for smallholder farmers
Weather data and services derived from weather data have a high potential to enhance support for smallholder farmers in taking operational decisions on farm management. Plant growth is driven by weather variables and therefore agricultural production is directly dependent on weather conditions.
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Leveraging ICT innovations to support farmers and farmers’ organisations
The data revolution is helping us make better decisions in all areas of our lives, and farmers are no exception. However, the smallholder farmer is being left behind as more data applications are developed for commercial farming. There is a need to better empower smallholder farmers to leverage information and communications technology (ICT) innovations for greater productivity and efficiency.
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Farmer profiling: Making data work for smallholder farmers
The objective of this research is to understand the role of farmer organisations (FO) and cooperatives in the agriculture data ecosystem. It details for each stage of the crop cycle, the findings in terms of data use, needs, and challenges and contains a summary of the findings in the form of recommendations for farmer organisations and cooperatives in terms of farmer profiling activity.
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The power of online communities
Smallholder farmers need to absorb a huge amount of information that will directly impact their work. Communities of practice can strengthen their ability to influence agricultural research and policy and improve their farming practices.
events
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Dec 1
Strike Two Summit: Chain Management
This summit comprises of three events where digital innovations are showcased to make our food system more circular, sustainable and future-proof. Each event is focused on a part of the food chain: starting with a consumer-orientated event on building trust, followed by an event entirely for farming industr… -
Dec 1
Farmer Field School and digitalisation
Thirty years after the creation of Farmer Field School (FFS), the landscape of knowledge and information has changed dramatically. Challenges with infrastructure, digital literacy, gender-digital divide, cost of access and capacity development need to be addressed to promote sustainable use of ICTs in FFS. On this basis, the FFS team produced an initial report highlighting the trends in ICT an… -
Dec 1
DigiMetis Symposium
Wageningen Economic Research organises the next Digimetis symposium entitled "Digital agriculture and rural communities: current perspectives on the digita… -
Dec 1
Strike Two Summit: Farm Income
This summit comprises of three events where digital innovations are showcased to make our food system more circular, sustainable and future-proof. Each event is focused on a part of the food chain: starting with a consumer-orientated event on building trust, followed by an event entirely for farming industry and…
