Agriculture

The Kenyan-based African Insect Science for Food and Health (icipe) launched yesterday on 30^th march, 2011 the most avoidable technology system, (ADOPT) Adaptation and Dissemination of the ‘Push-Pull’ Technology to Climate Change and is also a kind of preservation on agriculture approach for smallholder cereal livestock production in drier areas to withstand climate change.

I am still all jazzed up and energized by the great Addis Share Fair experience. So, what was so special about this event?

Dear Friends,

I appeal to you all to support my Teachers Talking Project idea at Africa Rural Connect, a program of the American National Peace Corps Association. The idea is to empower teachers to enter into informed debate and to influence policy regarding ICT in education, investment and development in rural agricultural communities in Kenya.

To endorse please go to the African Rural Connect sign up page:

http://arc.peacecorpsconnect.org

Click on the link, if it doesn't work copy and paste at your browser.

Soon after you sign up an email will be send to email address that you provided, go to your email account, check your inbox and if you don't see it check your spam mails (its happening to some people) and click on the link provided to confirm your registration. After that Login into African Rural Connect go to ideas just below the ARC logo,  find Teachers Talking and click on it the idea page will open. When there you can first choose to go through the whole idea information and later ENDORSE it on the right side.

I am also looking for support, collaborations and networks to expand and replicate this project idea to other rural Kenyan communities and probably Africa that share the same needs.

Comment what you think about the idea and share with friends to endorse too.

With Kind regards

David Mutua

Former VSO Volunteer

Crossposted from the ICT-KM Newsletter OCT 2010 announcing the AgKnowledge Afria Share Fair taking place this week in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: 

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