Unpredictable weather patterns and extreme events are increasing, hitting the world’s 500 million smallholder farmers hard and affecting their ability to continue to feed one-third of all people on Earth. We are seeing unprecedented threats to food systems, driven by climate change and now the global COVID-19 pandemic. For climate adaptation efforts and emergency response to be effective, scale for effective solutions must happen now.
How can we equip the ecosystem with the right digital solutions to respond to these threats?
This Skoll World Forum Ecosystem online webinar hosted by Mercy Corps AgriFin and moderated by Program Director Leesa Shrader – will engage world-leading entrepreneurs in a lively and honest discussion about what’s working and what’s not in scaling climate smart agriculture, emergency response, communications systems for farmers and rapidly emerging digital innovations to respond to, and prepare for, food system shocks. We will share the latest innovation in technologies, business models and behaviour change practices, revealing the highs and lows of working together to make impact and taking audience questions along the way.
Leesa Shrader, Program Director (host)
Gustav Praekelt, Founder Praekelt.org, Co-Founder Turn.io
David Bergvinson, Chief Science Officer, aWhere
Sitati Kituyi, CTO, Pula Advisors
Samir Ibrahim, CEO, SunCulture
Laura Crow, Senior Product Manager, M-PESA, Vodafone Group
Catherine Nakalembe, Africa Program Lead, NASA Harvest