Challenge completedDigitize Rural-Urban Agriculture
Faced with climate change and major food shortages, agriculture in African countries must increase their economic, environmental and social performance. Team up with the major IT-company Atos and collaborate with African farmers boosting their productivity to contribute to a sustainable development of African cities. Come up with new digital platform solutions that innovate farming in Africa!
Finalists of the Innovate 2030 - SDG 11 Programm
In the course of the Innovate 2030 - SDG 11 programm, 237 submissions by almost 1.000 innovative future minds from 65 countries around the world were handed in. 23 teams were selected with their project plans to work out their ideas and concepts over the next few weeks based on seven challenges.
Finalists for Atos
One of the challenges was aligned by Atos. The following teams are selected to participate in the next steps of the innovation challenge:
- CABI
Climate change and the emergence of agricultural pests: digital solutions to Acanthopluscricket outbreaks in Southern Africa. - AgriFriend
Increase productivity and income of small-scale farmers in emerging economies, combining human-centereddesign with advanced technology.