Chipo Msengezi
Project Coordinator, GODAN Action
Project Coordinator, GODAN Action
Biography
Chipo Msengezi is Project Coordinator for the GODAN Action project at CTA. She has worked in the ICT4D, capacity development and knowledge management sector for nine years. In this time Chipo has worked on various programmes in Sub-Sahara Africa to enhance capacity amongst the research and education communities in the latest information tools and advocate for the adoption of new technologies that drive development.
Articles
GODAN Action: Digital capacity building
Increased availability of agricultural data could help overcome key challenges for the sector, however many stakeholders still struggle to access and interpret agri-data. GODAN’s Action project aims to tackle this issue.
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Improving Zimbabwe’s capacities to effectively use open data on malnutrition
by Solange Tetero , Chipo Msengezi and Ronald Munatsi
The need to provide better access to timely and accurate data for policy makers, farmers and the private sector to inform agriculture and nutrition interventions and activities, has been widely acknowledged as part of the solution to ending malnutrition.
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Open data for agriculture: Towards improved collaboration between agriculture researchers and weather data providers
by Chipo Msengezi , Solange Tetero and Dorah Mweye
Weather represents the greatest opportunity – and risk – in the agriculture sector. Climate change presents major risks for long-term food security and developing countries may suffer the greatest share of damage in the form of declining yields and greater frequency of extreme weather events.
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Overcoming the divide on women and digitalisation in agriculture
by Chipo Msengezi and Yentyl Williams
Research and statistics state that women constitute around 40% of the agricultural labour force in the ACP region and while they make essential contributions to rural economies and the growing advancements in digitalisation – the gender gap in access to information communication technologies (ICTs) continue to widen. This means women farmers, particularly in rural areas, experience difficulties accessing information, financial products and services and markets. They also often do not participate in relevant policy-making.
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Publications
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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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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.
events
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Jan 20
5th Africa Women Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum (AWIEF) Conference & Exhibition
AWIEF Conference brings together on an annual basis, business leaders, public decision-makers and investors from Africa and around the world for two days of discussion on innovative and sustainable solutions to challenges in the development and growth of women-owned and women-led businesses needed to transform the African economy.
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Jan 20
Africa Geospatial Data and Internet Conference (AGDIC)
Africa Geospatial Data and Internet Conference (AGDIC) serves to bring people together from various stakeholder groups as equals, in discussions on public policy issues relating to geospatial, open data, ICTs and Internet in Africa. AGDIC informs and inspires those with policy-making powers across sectors in Africa to discuss, exchange information and… -
Jan 20
GODAN Action Webinar: Farmer's rights on data and ownership issues
The GODAN Action Webinar series address the need for capacity building among data users, producers and intermediaries to engage effectively with open data in the agriculture and nutrition sectors. This webinar… -
Jan 20
GODAN Action webinar: Agricultural Development - Open Data and the Sustainable Development Goals
The GODAN Action Webinar series address the need for capacity building among data users, producers and intermediaries to engage effectively with open data in the agriculture and nutrition sectors.
This webinar will focus on the use of open data to inform decision-making on sustainable development in Africa.
