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Participants, Not Data Sources: Building Farmer Data Systems That Give Back
Thompson Ogunsanmi is a scaling specialist at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, and Ifeoma Umunna is director of agriculture at DevAfric. They reveal how AkiliMo built a 700,000-farmer database across three countries with 70% of data flowing through feature phones rather than smartphones; how national partner associations now control data flow back to IITA instead of the reverse; why replicating India's AgriStack model fails in African contexts where women lack land tenure and farming is nomadic; and why treating farmer data as reusable infrastructure rather than a…
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