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Agrocentra - Providing smallholder farmers with trusted information on COVID-19

  • Funded by Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), GSMA Foundation
  • Total publications:0 publications

Grant number: US-EIN-37-1552838-82

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Key facts

  • Disease

    COVID-19

  • Start & end year

    2020
    2020

  • Known Financial Commitments (USD)

    $0

  • Funder

    Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), GSMA Foundation

  • Research Location

    Ghana

  • Lead Research Institution

    Agrocenta

  • Research Priority Alignment

    N/A

  • Research Category

    Policies for public health, disease control & community resilience

  • Research Subcategory

    Approaches to public health interventions

  • Special Interest Tags

    N/A

  • Study Type

    Non-Clinical

  • Clinical Trial Details

    N/A

  • Broad Policy Alignment

    Pending

  • Age Group

    Adults (18 and older)

  • Vulnerable Population

    Unspecified

  • Occupations of Interest

    Farmers

Abstract

Create a digital advisory service, known as Sentinel, which transmits health and safety information on COVID-19 to smallholder farmers through IVR channels. Providing this information to smallholder farmers is vital as they still rely heavily on non-mechanised farming, requiring them to operate in close proximity to one another, which can enable the virus to spread more easily.