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Asked by Robyn Capes-Baldrey to Sreejita, Maja, Amy on 23 Jan 2020.
Question: how have you helped farmers in Uganda?
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Sreejita Ghosh answered on 23 Jan 2020: last edited 23 Jan 2020 8:14 pm
I haven’t but my colleague from Uganda whose PhD is partly in Kampala (Uganda) and partly in Groningen (the Netherlands) uses machine learning for agriculture.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EJEb0H2WoAADg2e?format=jpg&name=small
She also won the Biotechnology Award 2019 for developing a low cost smartphone add-on spectrometer for the diagnosis of crop diseases.
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Deirdre commented on :
One of the research projects I am working looks at how people around the world experience water insecurity in different ways. One of the sites in this study is in Uganda.
We aim to understand how different communities find solutions that are unique to their particular situation and how we can use that information so that when organisations (both governmental and non-governmental) are trying to provide solutions, they are working with local communities to provide something that is likely to work in practice rather than just in theory.