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MOBILE DATA COLLECTION
Agricultural Cooperative Programs
Cooperative farming holds the most potential for rural farmers to lift themselves out of poverty through their collective expertise and combined efficiencies. For many farmers, discounts on inputs and increased market access have resulted in unprecedented increases in income.
However, cooperatives become exponentially more complex to manage as they scale. The administrative burden of large memberships creates an artificial limitation to their size. Management applications and mobile tools help cooperatives reduce this management burden, allowing them to dramatically increase memberships without increasing complexity.
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Benefits of Mobile Data Collection in Agricultural Cooperative Programs
Complex calculations and data tracking help cooperatives with data-driven financial planning
Offline capabilities allow the application to be used in even the most rural, underserved communities.
Mobile workflows can virtually consolidate bulk selling and out-grower schemes to move cooperatives higher up the value chain, improving margins.
Multimedia capabilities allow for the distribution of best practices amongst cooperative members for improved and more consistent training.
Case management capabilities allow cooperative administrators to keep track of individual farmer needs and outputs.
Featured CommCare-Based Agricultural Cooperative Projects
Union des GIE de Producteurs de Céréale Local
Senegal
UGPCL is using CommCare to help better manage the data tracking and farmer training for their cooperative of over 1,000 farmers.
CARE
India
CARE India uses CommCare to track best practice adoption and farmer outputs for women in smallholder agriculture in India.
Union des GIE de Producteurs de Céréale Local
Senegal
Dimagi is working with UGPCL to help better manage their cooperative of over 1,000 farmers. Cooperative supervisors track the entire value-chain of small-scale farmers from the initial loan through its repayment, the output and quality of crops during the growing season, the farm produce’s contract sale for processing, as well as value addition by third parties. By providing a mobile-based system for tracking key metrics, cooperative managers can make informed decisions about the future of their cooperative, as well as estimate future cash flow requirements based on yield and sales data. Examples of features in the application include tools to help farmers calculate planting density, step-by-step guidance that helps farmers prepare for harvest, GPS tracking, and a module with instructional videos about how to use the application.
CARE
India
CARE India Solutions for Sustainable Development (CISSD) partnered with Dimagi as part of its Pathways program to enable more productive and more equitable participation of women farmers in sustainable agriculture and to contribute to their empowerment. To support this effort, they created the Participatory Performance Tracker, a CommCare-based mobile app that tracks individual farmers’ adoption of program-supported best practices, as well as their overall output. CISSD is inspired by the vital roles that women play in smallholder agriculture, meeting the food needs of their households and communities and contributing to development and growth, and believe the Pathways program and its Participatory Performance Tracker will improve livelihoods for women in even the most marginalized communities.
The Latest on Mobile Data Collection for Agriculture
Updates and advice from our world-class partners and Global Services team:
What’s Ahead for Mobile Data Collection in Agriculture?
A Q&A with Research Coordinator Jack Hetherington (ACIAR) on his advice for mobile data collection in ag programs.
How to Unlock the Power of Feedback
Oikoi (formerly AgImpact) shares their advice on how providing immediate feedback to beneficiaries can improve a variety of outcomes for the entire program.
Digitizing Coffee Agronomy Training & Monitoring
Global Technology Manager Kevin Zeigler discusses how three of Technoserve’s initiatives adopted mobile data collection platforms to train farmers in East Africa.
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