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Insights From The 3rd African Conference On Precision Agriculture (AFCPA 2024)

21 January 2025, Africa: The recently held 3rd African Conference on Precision Agriculture (AfCPA) wrapped up its three impactful days this December 3 to 5, bringing together experts, practitioners and leaders to discuss the future of agriculture in Africa.

AfCPA is a biennial event organized by APNI through its partnerships with the International Society of Precision Agriculture (ISPA), the African Association for Precision Agriculture (AAPA), and Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P).

The ongoing mission of AfCPA is to foster a forum dedicated to “building the connections between science and practice to put precision agriculture in action for Africa.” The conference has a uniquely networked structure. This year’s parent conference was in Marrakech, Morocco, and nine other in-person satellite conference sites were held concurrently in Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Benin, Nigeria, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Zimbabwe, and South Africa. The AfCPA partner organizations serving as national satellite site hosts were:

  1. National Polytechnic Institute Félix Houphouët-Boigny (INP-HB), Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
  2. University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana
  3. Genetics, Biotechnology & Seed Sciences Unit (GBioS), University of Abomey Calavi, Benin
  4. Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta
  5. National Authority for Remote Sensing & Space Sciences (NARSS), Cairo, Egypt
  6. Ethiopia Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
  7. University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya
  8. Plant Production Sciences and Technologies, University of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe
  9. University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa

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