ICARDA is an international organization undertaking research for development. We provide innovative, science-based solutions for countries across the non-tropical dry areas. Our research aims to reduce poverty and enhance food, water, and nutritional security and environmental health, in the face of global challenges, including climate change.
Based off of a participatory design and user-research process with women beekeepers in Uzbekistan and Ethiopia, AID-CSB will localize a beekeeping companion app and make it available to beekeepers. Incorporating traditional and local beekeeping knowledge and weather data, the app will be driven by data collected by beekeepers to support women, their decision-making for hive management, and provide a low-entry barrier economic activity. The women beekeepers will use the app to monitor and manage their hives by entering data on hive inspections and receiving helpful notifications on when to inspect the hive, weather, pests, diseases, and more.
To support biodiversity and enable improved hive management among women by leveraging traditional knowledge and technical assistance to become more productive beekeepers, using a gender-sensitive, participatory and inclusive app development process.
1. Successful technology adoption and usage: How and to what extent is the beekeeping companion used by the lead beekeepers trained during the project period against the target of a weekly interaction as per: (a) Frequency and quality of data collection (b) Frequency and type of interaction with the app to request guidance in case of diseases or anomalies 2. Improved beekeeping proficiency and livelihood effect: We will measure the: (a) Number, frequency, and quality of hive inspections using the app against the target of a weekly interaction (b) Total harvested honey and compare it to the regional average at the end of each harvest
Author: Max Rünzel
Date: 2021-04-01
Author: Max Rünzel
Date: 2021-04-01
Author: Max Rünzel
Date: 2021-04-01
Author: Laura Becker
Date: 2021-03-10
