19th March 2017
Image of Kiringai Kamau - Executive Director at CANIS, University of Nairobi; Andrea Powell - Chief Information Officer - CABI; André Laperrière - Executive Director, GODAN

GODAN’s 3rd International Workshop on Creating Impact with Open Data

The Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN) is a worldwide network of institutions and governments supporting open data within the agriculture and nutrition space. LDRI […]
7th November 2016
Agriculture data survey. Image of tea picker in Kitabi, Rwanda

Participate in this Quick Survey on Agriculture Data

This short survey is part of a broader effort to understand the kinds of data stakeholders in the agriculture sector want most. Please click on this link […]
20th September 2016
An artists representation of the discussions in one of the GODAN 2016 sessions.

3 Things We Need for Open Data to Count in Agriculture

Agriculture and nutrition open data, especially its role in supporting progress towards the achievement of SDG2, formed the central theme of this year’s GODAN Summit in New […]
25th June 2016

R&D Critical for Agricultural Transformation

Africa relies on rain fed agriculture to feed its people and millions of others around the world. Rain, however, isn’t always the most reliable partner in […]
12th May 2016

Using Insurance to Build Resilience

Located within the drought-prone Sahel region, Senegal is heavily reliant on rain fed agriculture despite the irregular rainfall that characterizes the region making resilience building a […]
31st December 2015

The Data Revolution in the Context of the Developmental State

In our first post of the series, we established our compound working definition for ‘developmental state’ as we explore the context within which a data revolution […]