Data management system for sustainable agriculture among smallholder farmers in Tanzania: research-in-progress
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Date
2023-05-31
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Taylor & Francis
Abstract
Smallholder farmers produce about 70% of the world’s food and employ
more than one billion people. They therefore have an important role to
play in eradicating food insecurity and poverty among the world’s
growing population. Although there are different digital services for
smallholder farmers, the existing services lack sustainability in the
agriculture context and hardly meet their needs. Data management and
sharing among different agriculture stakeholders has the potential to
make agriculture sustainable, but there is a need to enable access to
digital services in an entire farming cycle under one roof. This paper
aims to propose the design of a comprehensive data management
digital framework to solve common challenges of smallholder farmers
in Tanzania and other countries’ agricultural systems. We follow the
design science research (DSR) method to develop an artifact that
interacts with the problem context. To illustrate the framework’s
applicability, we use different case studies in Tanzania.
Description
Journal Article of Information Technology for Development, pp. 558-581
Keywords
Smallholder farmers, information system design, sustainable agriculture, farm data management, Tanzania