A self-building workshop approach to promote digital tool adoption among smallholder farmers
Résumé
Although precision agricultural technologies are recognised as crucial for addressing agricultural challenges, they have seen limited adoption in small-scale farming due to the high cost of solutions developed. To overcome this issue, this article proposes a three-stage approach to empower farmers to build digital tools using low-cost components. Using a truck hosting a FabLab, the method facilitates direct interactions to bring out farmer's needs, to propose low-cost sensors to meet and to support farmers through dedicated workshops. To date, 22 events have been organized, leading to the design of 10 distinct tools, approximately 35 of which were self-built by farmers. While this method is not universally applicable, participating farmers exhibited significant interest.
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