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CHAKULA BORA DIGITAL NETWORK
Leveraging the power of Connection
The Chakula Bora Digital Network is part of our strategy to promote food sovereignty in Africa. The digital platform creates an online community, across borders, to facilitate knowledge exchange and people-to-people connections within the agricultural value chain. What we share in common is a conviction that healthy food and nutrition must be grounded in regenerative agriculture and measured by Triple P performance metrics (profitability, planet health, and people empowerment).
Within the Chakula Bora online Community, we envision the genesis of a new generation of innovations, resources, and policies which will be lead to true food sovereignty for the impoverished and marginalized. The platform allows for peer-to-peer interaction through knowledge sharing engagements making the best use of communication technology. The platform aims to be a central repository for learning, containing publications, instructional videos, guidance notes on best practices, and internet forums.
The Chakula Bora Digital Network objectives include:
To understand and document the direction of the agri-food industry in various geographical and ecological regions of Africa, in the context of trade reforms and growing market uncertainties on the one hand and climate change-and COVID-19-induced risks on the other.
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To understand local policy responses and interventions made by the state and other development agencies to address the large-scale retreat of young people from the farming sector.
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To develop gender-specific and elderly-specific technological innovations and institutional support mechanisms so that their hardships are minimized and they are adequately rewarded for their contributions.
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To enable peer-to-peer engagement and endogenous knowledge transfer among small holder and medium scale farmers.