Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) have been used to help agriculture communities improve their farming knowledge and market strategies.
A wealth of farming knowledge has been lost, too, and Simon is working hard to restore that and bring it up to date.
Ogwang, a local man who is fluent in the local language, Ateso, explains how the 20 years of insurgency and unrest in the region, which only ended in 2003, wiped out three crucial things - big trees, herds of cattle and, most importantly, a generation's farming knowledge.
"We weren't looking for it - it almost came on us as a surprise," says Jo. "We saw it advertised and started thinking, actually, maybe we could do it". Steve grew up on a sheep farm but freely admits to not having any current farming knowledge.
Smart Control of Rural Renewable Energy and Storage (Scorres), which has been trialled in the Tamil Nadu region of southern India, relies on localised weather forecasts and farming knowledge combined with solar energy storage and machine learning to create a precisely targeted irrigation system that farmers can control by mobile phone.
While Don and Sally continued to run the restaurant, Karen (now Bates) and her husband, Tim, drew on their small-scale organic farming knowledge to transform the 2,000 mostly Golden and Red Delicious trees into a business that reflected the family's vision and taste.
They may have limited dairy farm knowledge, so getting to know them before the inspection starts will help you to know how to talk to them and how much dairy jargon you can use.
Indeed, organic farming is knowledge intensive and requires regular interactions between farmers and extension services.
Ensuring proper design of offshore wind turbines and wind farms requires knowledge of the external conditions in which the turbines and associated facilities are to operate.
When they are not studying or working on their commercial plots, they work on their individual family farms, using knowledge from the farmer field school and tools from the FAO.
Studies on farm workers' knowledge about the effect of pesticide use conducted in Florida, North Carolina, USA, and Nueva Ecija, Philippines, Egypt, Turkey, and Malaysia reported similar findings [ 25– 29].
