More than 12,000 farmers in Kenya provided access to zoonotic disease information though mobile phones

CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health. 2019. More than 12,000 farmers in Kenya provided access to zoonotic disease information though mobile phones. Reported in Agriculture for Nutrition and Health Annual Report 2019. Outcome Impact Case Report.

Since 2017, ILRI researchers supported by A4NH have been partnering with Green Dream Tech to integrate information on 15 key zoonoses into iCow, a mobile phone agricultural platform reaching nearly 600,000 smallholder farmer subscribers in East Africa. As of November 2019, around 178,000 SMS messages on zoonotic diseases have been sent to 12,643 farmers primarily in Kenya.