{"id":43515,"date":"2025-04-14T15:25:58","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T12:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sbs.strathmore.edu\/?p=43515"},"modified":"2025-04-17T11:22:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T08:22:20","slug":"agri-markets-data-for-investment-and-growth-amdigac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbs.strathmore.edu\/en_gb\/agri-markets-data-for-investment-and-growth-amdigac\/","title":{"rendered":"Focus on Research: Agri-Markets Data for Investment and Growth (AMDiG) Community of Practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container has-pattern-background has-mask-background nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1248px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-slider-sc\"><div class=\"fusion-flexslider-loading flexslider flexslider-hover-type-none\" data-slideshow_autoplay=\"0\" data-slideshow_smooth_height=\"0\" data-slideshow_speed=\"7000\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:100%;\"><ul class=\"slides\"><li class=\"image\"><span class=\"lazyload fusion-image-hover-element hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sbs.strathmore.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/AgriMarkets.thb_.png\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/sbs.strathmore.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/AgriMarkets.thb_.png\" width=\"800\" height=\"700\" class=\"lazyload wp-image-43516\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27800%27%20height%3D%27700%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20800%20700%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27800%27%20height%3D%27700%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/sbs.strathmore.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/AgriMarkets.thb_-200x175.png 200w, https:\/\/sbs.strathmore.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/AgriMarkets.thb_-400x350.png 400w, https:\/\/sbs.strathmore.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/AgriMarkets.thb_-600x525.png 600w, https:\/\/sbs.strathmore.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/AgriMarkets.thb_.png 800w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>The <strong>Agri-Markets Data for Investment and Growth (AMDiG) Community of Practice (CoP)<\/strong> is a multi-stakeholder partnership that brings together actors from government, academia, the private sector, and development organizations to accelerate <strong>inclusive agricultural transformation in Kenya<\/strong> through data-driven market integration.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Coordinated by the Strathmore Agri-Food Innovation Centre (SAFIC),<\/strong> AMDiG seeks to champion evidence-based interventions to unlock market potential and stimulate private sector action. These evidence-based approaches can unlock the untapped potential of agricultural markets and stimulate meaningful private sector participation. The operational framework of the CoP focuses on tackling systemic challenges hindering institutions in the agri-markets ecosystem from achieving their objectives in data and insights generation, decision-making, investment planning, and farmer support.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The CoP is organized around three thematic areas:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mainstreaming data insights\u00a0for value chain and enterprise decision-making and investment.<\/li>\n<li>Aligning government priorities\u00a0and policy positions with farmer practices, private sector needs, and investments.<\/li>\n<li>Building efficient and sustainable supply chains\u00a0through effective value chain coordination, formalization, and governance<strong>.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Join the CoP here:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/safic.strathmore.edu\/community-of-practice-registration\/\"><strong>Community of Practice Registration &#8211; Strathmore Agri-Food Innovation Centre<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":43518,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v20.2.1 (Yoast SEO v27.8) - 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