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Project title

The future of data driven agriculture in Uganda: A design-led approach to building climate resilient futures with marginalised smallholder farmers

Primary Funding Agency

Science Foundation Ireland

Co-Funding Organisation(s)

Department of Foreign Affairs

Lead Organisation

University of Limerick

Lead Applicant

Not listed

Project Abstract

The aim of the project is to capacitate marginalised smallholder farmer (hereafter SHF) networks to co-design solutions to climate change that are specific to their context and lived experience. The spread of mobile technology, remote-sensing data, IoTs, and distributed computing and storage capabilities are opening new opportunities to integrate SHFs into the broader agri-food system. The project will address the challenge of achieving the triple-win outcomes of agrictech: increased productivity, enhanced resilience and reduced emissions. This will be achieved through the design and development of affordable climate-smart technologies that vulnerable communities can adopt even without donor support. SHFs will be empowered and enabled to make data-driven decisions through access to data, gathered through a bespoke remote sensing network with data made available via mobile phone via community-based data translators. Further, a Futures Innovation Platform will be trialled where SHF communities will begin to use range of data to understand the changing nature of agriculture systems and imagine future scenarios for the region, incorporating future forecasting as a means of prevention, rather than reactive responses to shocks. SHFs and stakeholders will engage in co-designing strategies and solutions towards the realisation of preferable futures and their developing climate change literacy.

Grant Approved

�60,923.00

Research Hub

Climate Change

Research Theme

3. Climate Solutions, Transition Management and Opportunities

Start Date

01/02/2023

Initial Projected Completion Date

31/01/2024