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President, Global Growth & Opportunity Division, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Digital innovations like AI are helping smallholder farmers adapt to a changing climate by providing critical information at their fingertips.  In Malawi, farmers like Christina Matsenga benefit from AI-powered tools, which offer quick guidance for issues like livestock health, saving them trips to town for expert advice. This is one of many powerful innovations empowering smallholder farmers. Read more from Devexhttps://lnkd.in/eYs5GBHH

Devex Dish: How the farmers without smartphones are using AI

Devex Dish: How the farmers without smartphones are using AI

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Greg Nelson

Chief Technology Officer, Former Microsoft executive, Board member

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Thanks Rodger Voorhies for highlighting this work, which shows such promise for smallholder farmers around the world. We're excited about our progress so far and we're developing similar practical AI solutions for other use cases in agriculture, education, and microentrepreneurship. Appreciate the help from Laura C. Rudert and Howard Lakougna to help us understand AI efforts at Gates Foundation better, and hope we can find ways to partner! Great work from our Opportunity International teams to make this all come together. You can see more here from the article in Bloomberg: https://opportunity.org/content/News/News/Media%20Coverage/2024-bloomberg-feature.pdf

Simona Haiduc

Managing Director, Strategic Partnerships

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Thanks, Rodger, for sharing this article that highlights Opportunity’s Ulangizi app! …and this is just the beginning… regenerative ag practices through Ulangizi to help farmers adaptat to climate changes are currently being tested… thanks again!

gerard boyle

Process Operator at Abbott Ireland Cootehill.

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Thanks for sharing

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John Mundy

Partnerships, climate finance, and technology | Food systems | Acumen Global Fellow

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Laura C. Rudert

Building Sustainable Futures | Leadership in Infrastructure, Economic Development, Gender Empowerment, Climate & Innovation

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Greg Nelson happy to see your Malawi work featured here

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