DAC Data Sharing and Consent Learning Publication

This learning publication describes the activities held in 2024, as elaborated on below, shares key insights about data sharing and informed consent, and discusses reflections, and lessons learned from DAC members. It concludes by describing potential models for gathering informed consent from farmers and laying out future ambitions.

DAC Activities 2024

Pilot training results workshop: In 2024 the DAC continued the work of 2023. After a pilot training with 3900 Kenyan farmers on informed consent, a follow up survey was done to understand its effects. The impacts of this training were discussed in with the DAC membership (see report).

Call for a data sharing pilot: As a result of the workshop a call for a more practical pilot was created and sent out (read the call for use cases), to facilitate actual data sharing and learn from this. Based on this call, exploratory conversations were had with DAC partners to find interest and understand the relevance and potential of use cases.

Community discussions: Meanwhile, a number of fundamental questions around balancing innovation for Agtech and ethical data sharing were shared and debated in an online discussion (see  LinkedIn) as well as a panel discussion (view the recording)

About the Digital Agrifood Collective
The DAC is one of the initiatives supported by NFP. Together with Bopinc, NFP has been facilitating this group to exchange learnings and align strategies to make sure that the digital revolution in agriculture benefits the thousands of agribusinesses and millions of low-income producers (and consumers) in Lower and Middle Income Countries.