{"id":1668,"date":"2018-01-03T11:20:14","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T10:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weatherimpact.com\/?p=1668"},"modified":"2019-09-03T14:16:27","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T14:16:27","slug":"focus-on-african-agriculture-in-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.weatherimpact.com\/focus-on-african-agriculture-in-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Focus on African agriculture in 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new year prospects for new chances in African small-scale agribusiness. The Weather Impact team celebrated the end of the year 2017 in Ethiopia. Together with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wur.nl\/nl\/Expertises-Dienstverlening\/Onderzoeksinstituten\/Environmental-Research.htm\">Wageningen Environmental Research<\/a>, a workshop on agro-meteo services for small-scale Ethiopian farmers was organised. We came together with 20 Ethiopian meteorological and agronomical experts, to discuss the best methods and partnerships for a reliable and financially sustainable service in Ethiopia. It was decided that the <a href=\"http:\/\/weatherimpact.com\/2017\/11\/27\/weather-forecasts-for-sesame-farmers-in-ethiopia\/\">mobile text message<\/a> with a localized weather forecast, provided in 3 indigenous languages, will be continued in 2018 with at least a doubled number of users.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-529\" src=\"http:\/\/weatherimpact.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/southafrica-1024x584.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"411\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In Kenya, ten-thousands of farmers will be reached with agro-meteo advisory in the CropMon project. In South-Africa, a Mobile farm-advisory app for extension officers will be released in the context of the R4A project. Furthermore, new projects will start in various African countries.<\/p>\n<p>In March 2018, Weather Impact organises a symposium on \u201cWeather information as success factor in local African agriculture\u201d to celebrate our 3<sup>rd<\/sup> anniversary and share the successes with our partners.<\/p>\n<p>The Weather impact team wishes you a healthy and successful 2018!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new year prospects for new chances in African small-scale agribusiness. The Weather Impact team celebrated the end of the year 2017 in Ethiopia. Together with Wageningen Environmental Research, a workshop on agro-meteo services for small-scale Ethiopian farmers was organised. We came together with 20 Ethiopian meteorological and agronomical experts, to discuss the best methods [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2566,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weatherimpact.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weatherimpact.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weatherimpact.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weatherimpact.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weatherimpact.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.weatherimpact.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weatherimpact.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weatherimpact.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weatherimpact.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weatherimpact.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}