CTA Project Completion Report: AgriHack Talent: Focus on Pitch AgriHack

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cg.authorship.typesNot CGIAR international instituteen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationTechnical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperationen_US
cg.contributor.donorEuropean Unionen_US
cg.coverage.regionACPen_US
cg.coverage.regionSub-Saharan Africaen_US
cg.placeWageningen, The Netherlandsen_US
cg.reviewStatusInternal Reviewen_US
cg.subject.ctaAGRICULTUREen_US
cg.subject.ctaDIGITALISATIONen_US
cg.subject.ctaICTen_US
cg.subject.ctaYOUTHen_US
dc.contributor.authorLohento, Kenen_US
dc.contributor.authorKoutchade, Folakeen_US
dc.contributor.authorBellinzas, Giorgioen_US
dc.date.accessioned2020-12-14T12:29:29Zen_US
dc.date.available2020-12-14T12:29:29Zen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/110522en_US
dc.titleCTA Project Completion Report: AgriHack Talent: Focus on Pitch AgriHacken_US
dcterms.abstractCTA’s AgriHack Talent initiative aimed to strengthen youth-led digital innovation and entrepreneurship in agriculture in African, Caribbean and Pacific countries. It was a key part of CTA’s strategy to encourage youth’s meaningful involvement in agriculture and promote youth employment and agricultural transformation through innovations. Co-designed with young innovators and partners, the AgriHack Talent project included: • competitions to develop information and communication technology (ICT) applications for agriculture (hackathons) when there is a need • a start-up competition (called Pitch AgriHack) targeting young companies already offering e-agriculture services • capacity building, mentorship and incubation opportunities • promotional and networking opportunities • facilitation of access to grants and investments to scale-up services offered. The project was launched in 2013 when a regional agricultural hackathon was organised in the framework of the international ICT4Ag conference that CTA organised in Rwanda. It was probably the first initiative of its kind at the international level targeting Africa. The hackathon targeted East Africa only, leveraging on the stronger development of digitalisation in that region. Hackathons were then organised annually until 2015. From 2016, the project focused on start-ups that already owned digital solutions as many prototypes were already in existence and needed support to grow. This was the launch of Pitch AgriHack. Four editions of Pitch AgriHack were organised. The 2016 edition covered all ACP countries, the 2017 edition focused on West Africa and the last two editions organised in 2018 and 2019 again covered all ACP countries. For these last two editions, CTA put young women’s digital entrepreneurship at the core of the project and 50% of finalists and winners were women-led businesses.en_US
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Accessen_US
dcterms.audienceDevelopment Practitionersen_US
dcterms.bibliographicCitationCTA. 2020. CTA - Project Completion Report AgriHack Talent: Focus on Pitch AgriHack. Wageningen: CTAen_US
dcterms.extent49 p.en_US
dcterms.issued2020-10-30en_US
dcterms.languageenen_US
dcterms.licenseCopyrighted; Non-commercial use onlyen_US
dcterms.publisherTechnical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperationen_US
dcterms.typeReporten_US

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