Agricultural education: INFONET BioVision
Infonet-BioVision is a database-driven on-line information platform tailored to the rural population in East Africa. It offers information on sustainable agriculture and ecological control of plant-, human- and animal- targeting pests and disease vectors. It also provides information on simple and environmentally safe technologies and approaches to improve the life and generate income while at the same time protecting the environment and the natural resources. Infonet-BioVision’s aim is to contribute to poverty reduction and environmental protection by disseminating appropriate methods for crop and livestock production, human and environmental health.
INFONET-BioVision is being carried out by the Swiss BioVision foundation for environment and development.
Find our more at the website of the BioVision foundation, the Avallain blog or at infonet-biovision.org.
Agricultural education
Access to agricultural information is necessary to support small scale farmers in Africa to improve their production in amount and quality thus boosting incomes, thus strengthening capacities for investments and further improvement of production methods.
Eco trainers explore information from infonet-biovision.org.
It took these women less then 10 minutes to manage the mouse and to click through infonet-biovision.org.
Pest and soil management, water treatment, livestock farming – all these areas require specific competences, skills and continuing training. Therefore a lot of small scale farmers in African communities unite in farmer networks to discuss similar challenges they meet, problems they share and explore ways to jointly address them. ICT-based information and training solutions can play a supportive role in these learning networks: examples like www.infonet-biovision.org show how database-driven on-line information systems can facilitate gathering, updating and editing of media rich information material tailored to meet the needs of various target groups.
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