smartfarming

05
Jul
2017
by SmartAgrIoT
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Our SAAS software lets the farmer (small holder or commercial) plan, monitor and analyze all farming activities easily. Tillage, planting, spraying, fertilization, irrigation, harvesting and all other activities are managed with a few clicks. Quick to onboard and start using the software. Keep your farm records and all farming data in the cloud. Get real-time […]

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Agriselana

http://agriselana.smartagriot.co.za

NO POVERTY

More than 700 million people, or 10% of the world population, still live in extreme poverty. Surviving on less than US$1.90 a day.
Having a job does not guarantee a decent living. In fact, 8 percent of employed workers and their families worldwide lived in extreme poverty in 2018.
Globally, there are 122 women aged 25 to 34 living in extreme poverty for every 100 men of the same age group.
The majority of people living on less than $1.90 a day live in sub-Saharan Africa.
High poverty rates are often found in small, fragile, and conflict-affected countries.
Poverty affects children disproportionately. One out of five children live in extreme poverty.
As of 2018, 55% of the world’s population has no access to social protection.
In 2018, only 41% of women giving birth received maternity cash benefits.

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AgriFaka – Inputs

http://agriafricamp.smartagriot.co.za

DECENT WORK AND ECONOMIC GROWTH

The global unemployment rate in 2017 was 5.6%, down from 6.4% in 2000.
Globally, 61% of all workers were engaged in informal employment in 2016. Excluding the agricultural sector, 51% of all workers fell into this employment category.
Men earn 12.5% more than women in 40 out of 45 countries with data.
The global gender pay gap stands at 23 percent globally and without decisive action, it will take another 68 years to achieve equal pay. Women’s labor force participation rate is 63 percent while that of men is 94 percent.
Despite their increasing presence in public life, women continue to do 2.6 times the unpaid care and domestic work that men do.
470 million jobs are needed globally for new entrants to the labor market between 2016 and 2030.

AgriLab

http://agrilab.smartagriot.co.za

REDUCED INEQUALITIES

In 2016, over 64.4% of products exported by the least developed countries to world markets faced zero tariffs, an increase of 20% since 2010.
Evidence from developing countries shows that children in the poorest 20 percent of the population are still up to three times more likely to die before their fifth birthday than children in the richest quintiles.
Social protection has been significantly extended globally, yet persons with disabilities are up to five times more likely than average to incur catastrophic health expenditures.
Despite overall declines in maternal mortality in most developing countries, women in rural areas are still up to three times more likely to die while giving birth than women living in urban centers.
Up to 30 percent of income inequality is due to inequality within households, including between women and men. Women are also more likely than men to live below 50 percent of the median income

Agri Training

http://training.smartagriot.co.za

GLOBAL PARTNERSHIPS

Official development assistance stood at $146.6 billion in 2017. This represents a decrease of 0.6 percent in real terms over 2016.

79 percent of imports from developing countries enter developed countries duty-free

The debt burden on developing countries remains stable at about 3 percent of export revenue

The number of Internet users in Africa almost doubled in the past four years

30 percent of the world’s youth are digital natives, active online for at least five years

But more four billion people do not use the Internet, and 90 percent of them are from the developing world