TomorrowNow.org hosted a technical workshop in Nairobi to convene key partners & stakeholders who are collaborating with us to operationalize weather & climate services to empower food security applications
Participants at the workshop were drawn from Data Providers Salient, TAHMO World, Arable & Tomorrow.io who are going to avail weather & climate data to our model in helping us support agricultural decision making in East Africa,
Our Data Optimization & Localization partners Rhiza Research & Predictia Intelligent Data Solutions enlightened workshop participants about their role in improving the quality of our weather data through activities such as bias adjustment leveraging our partner TAHMO’s ground observation infrastructure
In addition, our partners involved in Program Use Cases Regrow Ag, CGIAR, International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Regen Organics, CABI/Assimila shared insights about how they are going to help us with on-the-ground testing and application of improved weather data & climate data to power activities such as pest & disease modelling to feed into smallholder farmer advisories
We also learnt from Kartoza (Pty) Ltd about the technical aspects of how they are going to build TomorrowNow.org’s proposed Global Access Platform (GAP) that’s going to help various stakeholders, including National Agricultural Research and Extension Services (NARES) like KALRO FARMING, better serve their users at the community level
We were honored to also have the participation, input & feedback from our partners & colleagues at One Acre Fund, KALRO FARMING and Kenya Meteorological Department
We are committed to delivering on northstar goal of reaching 100M smallholder farmers with weather intelligence by the year 2030, and wish to THANK the ecosystem as well as our funders Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Foundation for their continued guidance and support along the way
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