Making knowledge needs visible through agricultural markets

One of the biggest challenges besetting African smallholder agriculture is the fact that agricultural knowledge is invisible.

By looking at a farmer or a trader, you cannot tell what knowledge these people possess or need.

Two farmers can pass each other in the market, one possessing the solution to a problem that is taxing to the other, and they may not know it because their agricultural knowledge needs are invisible.

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