Access Agriculture Awards
October 2018
Access Agriculture wins the Prize D4D 2018 in ‘iStandOut’ category
Access Agriculture was declared as the winner of the Prize Digital for Development (D4D) in the ‘iStandOut’ category during the Innovation Fair & Awards Ceremony, organized by the Royal Museum for Central Africa, on 4 October 2018 in Brussels, Belgium. The Awards ceremony was presided by Mr Alexander De Croo, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance, and Minister for Development Cooperation.
Prize D4D is a biennial initiative of the Royal Museum for Central Africa with the support of the Directorate-General for Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid (DGD).
The Prize rewards outstanding initiatives that use digitisation and new technologies as a lever towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Access Agriculture, which is a world-leading organisation for quality agricultural training videos in local languages working across the Global South, was congratulated by the selection jury for its effective innovative approach and outstanding outreach.
The jury observed that the online video platform of Access Agriculture was the best success story in the category iStandOut. “Using Access Agriculture training videos in local languages, farmers from the South could learn sustainable agriculture technologies from each other.”
The innovative digital approach, technologies and partnerships used by Access Agriculture has enabled global access to quality training videos in local languages and has transformed the lives of millions of farmers.
Today more than 200 broadcast-quality agricultural training videos in over 80 languages are hosted on the open-access video platform of Access Agriculture www.accessagriculture.org
Access Agriculture invested the prize of 10,000 Euro in its Young Entrepreneur Challenge Fund to support local entrepreneurs in the South to start a business around last mile delivery of its farmer-training videos.
October 2016
Access Agriculture wins Gold award at EVCOM Clarion Awards 2016
Access Agriculture took home the Gold award in the ‘Innovation’ category of the EVCOM Clarion Awards at an international ceremony, held on 7 October 2016, London UK. It also received a highly recommended award in the ‘Learning and Education’ category.
The EVCOM Clarion Awards are the leading event and communication awards that recognise performance in corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainability, including environment, diversity, equality, community, charity initiatives, education, ethics, health and welfare issues.
Access Agriculture, which promotes “farmer to farmer” videos in international and local languages, was singled out for the imaginative way in which videos can be accessed by the target audience either directly or through extension staff. Its video platform provides an invaluable resource of agricultural training videos in local languages to enable farmers from around the world to share knowledge and skills.
Access Agriculture was established in 2012 and registered as an international non-profit organisation (AISBL), in Belgium. It is a global service provider that supports South–South learning among farmers and rural businesses by making available its quality agricultural training videos on agroecology and rural entrepreneurship in international and local languages.
Access Agriculture Conference award winners
At a gala dinner during the Access Agriculture Conference the award winners for 2015 were announced.
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