Accelerating Inclusive Green Growth through Agri-based Digital Innovation in West Africa (AGriDI): Close-out and Dissemination Workshop
The International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe) and CORAF will co-host the AGriDI Close-out and Dissemination Workshop from 27–29 August 2025 at the Four Points by Sheraton Dakar Diamniadio, Senegal. The event marks a key milestone in the five-year AGriDI project, co-funded by the European Union under the OACPS R&I Programme, which has advanced agri-based digital innovations to foster inclusive green growth in West Africa. Since 2020, AGriDI has supported 13 projects across the ECOWAS region, promoting digital literacy, enhancing collaboration between research, industry, and policymakers, and driving the uptake of cost-effective technologies—particularly for women and youth farmers.
The workshop will bring together project partners, policymakers, development agencies, and private sector representatives to review achievements, share lessons learned, and explore opportunities for sustaining AGriDI’s impact. Through keynote addresses, panel discussions, project presentations, and interactive group sessions, participants will reflect on success factors, address challenges, and identify pathways for scaling up digital innovations in agriculture. The outcomes will include a documented synthesis of best practices, strengthened stakeholder networks, and recommendations to guide future policy and programming for agri-digital transformation in West Africa.
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SmartSoil Project Delivers GeaGrow App to Boost Sustainable Farming in Nigeria
From March 2022 to April 2025, FUNAAB’s SmartSoil Project developed GeaGrow, an innovative mobile app providing farmers in Southwest Nigeria with real-time, location-specific soil fertility data. Powered by AI and digital soil mapping, the app offers cost-effective, open-source tools for sustainable land management.
The project, part of the EU-funded AGriDI programme coordinated by icipe, trained farmers, extension agents, and researchers in app use, provided soil data to government agencies, and developed policy briefs to guide agricultural decision-making.
At the July 2025 Close-out Meeting, stakeholders from government, academia, the private sector, and development organisations reviewed achievements and explored how to scale GeaGrow across Nigeria and West Africa — ensuring more farmers can benefit from science-based agricultural practices.