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The agriculture sector in Southern Africa faces increasing risks as natural disasters become more frequent and disruptive due to climate change. Climate change is expected to intensify the following agriculture risks in the South Africa Development Community (SADC):
Crop failures due to extreme weather events (drought, floods)
Animal and/or plant pests or diseases
Food price, agriculture, and trade flow disruptions

To incentivize the development of these risk financing tools, the World Bank has launched three challenges with the aim to demonstrate alternative ways of collecting or monitoring critical datasets and indices that can be used to ultimately assess in a granular, scalable and dynamic way the various dimensions of impact induced by agricultural stressors.

CHALLENGE 1: ALTERNATIVE METHODS FOR MEASURING WEATHER VARIABLES
CHALLENGE 2: PREDICTING OR MONITORING ANIMAL AND/OR PLANT PESTS DISEASE OUTBREAKS
CHALLENGE 3: BRING YOUR OWN AGRICULTURE DATA

120 startups from 33 countries worldwide applied to participate in the World Bank Agriculture Challenge among which 20 candidates were shortlisted and 3 winners selected.

Watch the Final Round of the 2020 Southern Africa Innovation Challenge for Food Security & Agriculture Risk Financing in Southern Africa. The top shortlisted innovators are pitching their solutions in front of a Grand Jury. The Grand Jury are questioning the innovators and their solutions in a “shark-tank” style format in 30-minute sessions per each finalist.

Day 2. Predicting or Monitoring Animal and/or Plant Pests Challenge

Innovators:
Saillog (Israel)
Yuktix Technologies Private Limited (India)
GeoPotato (Bangladesh)
RVF-Zero (Senegal)
Innosapien Agro Technologies (India)
Intelligent monitoring, analysis, and early warning system for fall armyworms (Taiwan)
Fall ArmyWorm Alert Service / Satelligence (Ghana)
Jaguza Livestock (Uganda)

The Challenge 2 Grand Jury:

Dossou Ghislain Boris Aihounton, Consultant, Agricultural Global Practice at the World Bank
Ricardo Negri, Independent consultant at the World Bank
Jolene Dawson, Accenture Development Partnerships Global Agriculture Lead at Accenture
Naomi Sakane, Consultant - Agriculture Global Practice at The World Bank
Luis De La Plaza, Lead Financial Officer at the World Bank Treasury

The winner of the Challenge 2 is Fall Armyworm Alert Service-Satelligence (Ghana) [ Ссылка ]

Congratulations!

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Watch the other videos in this series:
▶ WB Innovation Challenges 2020. Day 2. Predicting, Monitoring Animal / Plant Pests Challenge Part 2 [ Ссылка ]

▶ World Bank Agriculture Innovation Challenges 2020. Day 3. Bring Your Own Agriculture Data Challenge
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