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Fall Army Worm: Info session
Thu May 10, 18:00 - Thu May 10, 20:00
Impact Hub Joburg
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Calling all #tech4dev innovators! Want the chance to win cash and promote #foodsecurity? A call for applications for the Fall Armyworm Tech Prize offers to fund up to $400,000 in digital solutions aiming to help stop the spread of anyworm in Africa.Join us on May 10th from 6-8PM at Impact Hub Joburg in Rosebank to learn more about the prize! https://www.quicket.co.za/events/46106-info-session-the-fall-armyworm-tech-prize/
Nesta in conjunction with USAID - US Agency for International Development is currently running "the Fall Armyworm Tech Prize", which aims to find innovators with digital tools and approaches that provide timely, context-specific information that enables smallholder farmers and those in the agriculture industry to identify, treat and track incidences of fall armyworm in Africa. The Fall Armyworm is a threat to food security in Sub-Saharan Africa and devastating food supplies and exacerbating global poverty and hunger. Given the spread and the outbreak, interventions are needed with information on how to respond and prevent the pest needs to be transmitted efficiently.
There is a totaling of $400,000 of prizes for the Fall Armyworm Tech Prize:
- Grand prize of $150,000 (most viable solution)
- 2 awards of $75,000 (most promising solutions)
- 2 up and comer awards of $50,000 (early stage developments that show the most potential)
For more information on the Fall Armyworm Prize visit http://fallarmywormtech.challenges.org/
Or RSVP via quicket and join us at Impact Hub Joburg May 10th!