Regional Knowledge Hub for Organic Agriculture in East Africa: a pilot on transforming farmer access to organic training materials and information through digitalization

This pilot project aims to increase access to knowledge on organic farming of up to 30,000 farmers through the digitalization of content and testing of digital trainings.
To achieve this the project will:

• Simplify/downscale the materials into formats which are easily accessible and understood by the smallholder farmers,
• Provide access to knowledge via app and text message to help farmers access the training materials and information in a timely and interactive manner with little or no cost
• Develop a strategy for sustaining access to these materials by the smallholder farmers, and
• Develop a roll out strategy for implementing similar platforms and tools in the other three Knowledge Hubs (North, West and Southern Africa).

• Leopold Bachmann Stiftung

• Biovision Africa Trust
• Arifu
• Yielder

• Gräub Benjamin (Department of International Cooperation)

• Goldmann Eva (Department of International Cooperation)
• Huber Beate (Vice-chairwoman of the Management Board; Department of International Cooperation)
• Kadzere-Forichi Irene (Department of International Cooperation)
• Nicolay Gian L. (Department of International Cooperation)
• Ulmann Selina Laura (Department of International Cooperation)
• Weidmann Gilles (Department of Extension, Training & Communication)

Project coordination and implementation

• Advisory tools (Department of Extension, Training & Communication, FiBL Switzerland)
• Policy & Sector Development (Department of International Cooperation, FiBL Switzerland)