Empowering Ugandan Farmers Through Digital Innovation: Training on the M-Omulimisa Platform for Climate-Smart Farming Decisions
Decision support tools, particularly those that provide relevant data in a quick and user-friendly manner, are crucial in enabling farmers to make informed decisions in their day-to-day operations. This digital literacy training focused on utilizing the M-Omulimisa digital platforms to profile farme...
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Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa
2025
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| author | Ssebwana, Julian A Okonya, Joshua Barungi, Julian Recha, John W.M. |
| author_browse | Barungi, Julian Okonya, Joshua Recha, John W.M. Ssebwana, Julian A |
| author_facet | Ssebwana, Julian A Okonya, Joshua Barungi, Julian Recha, John W.M. |
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| description | Decision support tools, particularly those that provide relevant data in a quick and user-friendly manner, are crucial in enabling farmers to make informed decisions in their day-to-day operations. This digital literacy training focused on utilizing the M-Omulimisa digital platforms to profile farmers, enhance access to agricultural insurance, quality farm inputs, market information, weather forecasts, and agro-advisories. This digital platform can be accessed by farmers via USSD for those with feature phones or without internet, as well as through Android apps to access all the services available to farmers.
The training was attended by 69 participants (46 males, 23 females) comprising lead farmers, extension workers, digital connectors/village-based agents from five districts of Uganda (Luweero, Mukono, Buikwe, Bugiri and Lira). During the two days of fieldwork and prior to onboarding, brief training sessions were conducted to highlight the benefits of using digital platforms and the value added by the M-Omulimisa App, which addresses farmers' needs. These trainings and support for onboarding farmers were conducted in Luweero, Lira, Buikwe and Bugiri. Plans were made to monitor the utilization of digital platforms to ensure that farmers remain active and receive value for their investment. |
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| publishDate | 2025 |
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| spelling | CGSpace1770722025-11-11T17:07:29Z Empowering Ugandan Farmers Through Digital Innovation: Training on the M-Omulimisa Platform for Climate-Smart Farming Decisions Ssebwana, Julian A Okonya, Joshua Barungi, Julian Recha, John W.M. climate smart agriculture farmers innovation platforms Decision support tools, particularly those that provide relevant data in a quick and user-friendly manner, are crucial in enabling farmers to make informed decisions in their day-to-day operations. This digital literacy training focused on utilizing the M-Omulimisa digital platforms to profile farmers, enhance access to agricultural insurance, quality farm inputs, market information, weather forecasts, and agro-advisories. This digital platform can be accessed by farmers via USSD for those with feature phones or without internet, as well as through Android apps to access all the services available to farmers. The training was attended by 69 participants (46 males, 23 females) comprising lead farmers, extension workers, digital connectors/village-based agents from five districts of Uganda (Luweero, Mukono, Buikwe, Bugiri and Lira). During the two days of fieldwork and prior to onboarding, brief training sessions were conducted to highlight the benefits of using digital platforms and the value added by the M-Omulimisa App, which addresses farmers' needs. These trainings and support for onboarding farmers were conducted in Luweero, Lira, Buikwe and Bugiri. Plans were made to monitor the utilization of digital platforms to ensure that farmers remain active and receive value for their investment. 2025-07 2025-10-14T15:20:19Z 2025-10-14T15:20:19Z Report https://hdl.handle.net/10568/177072 en Open Access application/pdf Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa Ssebwana J, Okonya J, Barungi J, Recha J. 2025. Empowering Ugandan Farmers Through Digital Innovation: Training on the M-Omulimisa Platform for Climate-Smart Farming Decisions. AICCRA Report. Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research in Africa. |
| spellingShingle | climate smart agriculture farmers innovation platforms Ssebwana, Julian A Okonya, Joshua Barungi, Julian Recha, John W.M. Empowering Ugandan Farmers Through Digital Innovation: Training on the M-Omulimisa Platform for Climate-Smart Farming Decisions |
| title | Empowering Ugandan Farmers Through Digital Innovation: Training on the M-Omulimisa Platform for Climate-Smart Farming Decisions |
| title_full | Empowering Ugandan Farmers Through Digital Innovation: Training on the M-Omulimisa Platform for Climate-Smart Farming Decisions |
| title_fullStr | Empowering Ugandan Farmers Through Digital Innovation: Training on the M-Omulimisa Platform for Climate-Smart Farming Decisions |
| title_full_unstemmed | Empowering Ugandan Farmers Through Digital Innovation: Training on the M-Omulimisa Platform for Climate-Smart Farming Decisions |
| title_short | Empowering Ugandan Farmers Through Digital Innovation: Training on the M-Omulimisa Platform for Climate-Smart Farming Decisions |
| title_sort | empowering ugandan farmers through digital innovation training on the m omulimisa platform for climate smart farming decisions |
| topic | climate smart agriculture farmers innovation platforms |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/177072 |
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