Not-so-digital platforms?
Superficial adoption, offline services and (in)appropriate technologies in digital services for African smallholders.
Across sub-Saharan Africa, digital agricultural platforms are promoted as transformative tools for smallholders. From market price alerts to weather forecasts and farm credit, these platforms claim to modernize agriculture through scalable, low-cost digital services. Yet empirical evidence reveals a growing disconnect between these promises and the reality on-the-ground. Drawing on multi-year qualitative fieldwork in Kenya and Ghana, this presentation examines why many platforms struggle to achieve meaningful engagement among smallholders.
Distinguished Speaker
Dr Oane Visser
Associate Professor of agrarian, food & environmental studies, Institute of Social Studies (ISS), Erasmus University, Netherlands, and Visiting Researcher, Oxford University, New York
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