WeFarm
Cafedirect Producers’ Foundation
WeFarm is a peer-to-peer knowledge sharing platform for smallholder farmers. WeFarm users can ask and answer farming questions and share farming tips, via SMS or online, enabling farmers in rural areas without internet access to share information.
WeFarm is built around the principle that rural farming communities in developing countries have generations worth of knowledge to share, but lack the tools to do so. WeFarm provides an SMS service based around peer-to-peer, crowdsourcing of knowledge. Users ask a wide range of questions regarding farming techniques and share information around business ideas, or how to improve livelihoods.
WeFarm is a free service.
PlantVillage, iCow, mFarm and mShamba
Goal 2: WeFarm aims to improve the livelihoods of small-scale farmers by providing the access to knowledge of how to improve crop yield or how to start a micro-business, enabling them to increase household income.