{"id":5144,"date":"2019-09-06T10:06:42","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T07:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=5144"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:31","slug":"can-africa-feed-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/09\/06\/can-africa-feed-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Africa Feed Africa?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>By all African<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Did you ever think that they will be a time where farmers\ncan monitor their crops or the movement of their animals without having to go\nto the farm?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yes, technology is definitely changing the world, and\nAfrican farmers are catching up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But, why&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201909030632.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">digital<\/a>&nbsp;farming?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many farmers are still traditional as they use hand-hoes\nand animal traction to produce their food crops. But this is changing. Now many\nfarmers are embracing smart farming in order to meet the demands of a changing\nworld. Those who can afford it &#8211; have acquired soil sensors to measure air\ntemperature, nutrients and humidity, drones and satellites to collect and\nanalyze data &#8211; making it possible for farmers to manage their crops. This gives\nfarmers the opportunity to increase production, save costs and eliminate risk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">African leaders,\nstakeholders and experts are tackling how to develop actionable plans that will\nmove African agriculture forward at the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/agrf.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">African Green Revolution Forum<\/a>.\nThe theme of the forum is &#8220;Grow Digital: Leveraging Digital Transformation\nto Drive Sustainable Food Systems in Africa.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201909050594.html\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By all African Did you ever think that they will be a time where farmers can monitor their crops or the movement of their animals without having to go to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}