Report Points to Potential Impact of Mobile Technology on Farmers in Tackling Global Food Gap - Deanna Krinn

Mobile technology is changing the lives of farmers everywhere, which will play a fundamental role in the 70% increase of food production that is needed to support the projected 9 billion people by 2050.

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‘Connected Agriculture,’ the title of a recent report by Vodafone and Accenture seeks to highlight the growing importance of farmers’ access to mobile communication in isolated areas of some of the world’s poorest countries.

The report found that making mobile data services such as weather forecasts, commodity market information and mobile banking available to farmers in the developing world could potentially increase world farmers’ wages by an additional $138 billion by 2020. Such technology is especially important to farmers in these areas as they often lack the tools necessary to obtain accurate weather information for planting and harvesting, do not have access to information that would enable them to keep up-to-date with the most recent farming techniques, and are often confronted with the challenge of having to traveling to and from larger urban areas in order to complete simple banking transactions like obtaining micro-loans.

(via Food+Tech+Connect)