CoP Digital Solutions

On Thursday September 17, 2020, the Food security and COVID-19 Community of Practice (CoP) on Digital Solutions hosted the webinar “Providing Liquidity in Agri Value Chains with Digital Solutions”. This is the last webinar in a series of three focusing on “Digital opportunities in the response to COVID-19 in Asian & Africa agriculture”. »

On Thursday August 27, 2020, the Food security and COVID-19 Community of Practice (CoP) on Digital Solutions hosted the webinar “Digital solutions for smallholder farmers: the challenges and opportunities of COVID-19”. This is the second webinar in a series of three focusing on “Digital opportunities in the response to COVID-19 in Asian & Africa agriculture”. »

On Thursday July 30, 2020, the Food security and COVID-19 Community of Practice (CoP) on Digital Solutions hosted the webinar ”How do African entrepreneurs in agriculture use digital technology to respond to Covid-19”. This is the first webinar in a series of three focusing on “Digital opportunities in the response to COVID-19 in Asian & Africa agriculture”. »

On June 22, 2020, the second meeting of the CoP on Digital Solutions was convened by 2SCALE to discuss a proposal for an action perspective of this CoP was discussed. In preparation, a mapping was carried out to inventory the activities of organizations in the realm of digital technologies in food security programming. As an intermediate step the organization a webinars series was proposed to kick start this CoP with a practical perspective. »

During the online meetings, members of the CoP Digital Solutions refer to several documents and information, which will regularly be added to the resources list in this post. »

On May 19, 2020, a first online meeting was convened by 2SCALE for the Food security and COVID-19 CoP on Digital Solutions. The meeting was aimed at kick-starting the Digital CoP through general introductions, gaining understanding of current activities being undertaken in the respective organizations, and sharing information. »