Florence Good questions. I believe we all have a role to play in our different capacities. Government's role is of course already well known. Government needs to be supported by different non-state players while the farmers themselves need to embrace new thinking and new ways to enhance productivity. Regards *Ali Hussein* *Principal* *Hussein & Associates* Tel: +254 713 601113 Twitter: @AliHKassim Skype: abu-jomo LinkedIn: http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim <http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim> 13th Floor , Delta Towers, Oracle Wing, Chiromo Road, Westlands, Nairobi, Kenya. Any information of a personal nature expressed in this email are purely mine and do not necessarily reflect the official positions of the organizations that I work with. On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 9:38 AM, florence mwangangi <fmwangangi1@gmail.com> wrote:

What is now needed is dissemination of the information and the technologies to the farmers upto to the one at the furthest end. What role does the Government, particularly the County Government have in the dissemination? What role do you and me have in it?

On 25 May 2017 02:50, "Ali Hussein via kictanet" < kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

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According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations <http://www.fao.org/fileadmin/templates/wsfs/docs/expert_paper/How_to_Feed_the_World_in_2050.pdf>, the world population will reach 9.1 billion by 2050, and to feed that number of people, global food production will need to grow by 70%. For Africa, which is projected to be home to about 2 billion people by then, farm productivity must accelerate at a faster rate than the global average to avoid continued mass hunger <http://tekedia.com/59914/stanford-artificial-intelligence-shows-distribution-of-poverty-in-nigeria-via-satellite-images/> .

Kenyan Startups FarmDrive and UjuziKilimo get honorable mentions in this HBR Article.

Read on:-

https://hbr.org/2017/05/how-digital-technology-is-changing- farming-in-africa

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