Project Details


WSIS Prizes Contest 2019 Nominee

Cassava Link


Description

Since 2013, the organisation has been involved in various agriculture education empowering and educating women farmers through digital literacy. Our major objectives are: -To promote commercial production and increase the local consumption of yellow cassava varieties that is rich in vitamin A in Nigeria through technology. -To promote adoption of production technologies for enhancing sweet cassava yields. -To optimally utilize their ICTs for purposes such as strategic learning, monitoring, evaluation, scaling, communication and stakeholder engagement.

Project website

http://www.peasfoundationng.org


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Action lines related to this project
  • AL C2. Information and communication infrastructure
  • AL C3. Access to information and knowledge 2019
  • AL C4. Capacity building
Sustainable development goals related to this project
  • Goal 1: No poverty
  • Goal 2: Zero hunger
  • Goal 5: Gender equality

Coverage
  • Nigeria

Status

Ongoing

Start date

2013

End date

Not set


Target beneficiary group(s)
  • Women
  • Remote and rural communities

WSIS values promotion

Since 2013, the organisation has been involved in various agriculture education empowering and educating women farmers through digital literacy.


Entity name

People Environment and Sustainability Foundation (PEAS)

Entity country—type

Nigeria Civil Society

Entity website

http://www.peasfoundationng.org