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• Unfortunately, indigenous knowledge of agricultural practices is rapidly disappearing, because it is not being preserved.
• I conducted a literature review to explore the benefits and challenges of preserving indigenous agricultural knowledge in a digital form in Africa.
• One is that they would improve the quality and accuracy of knowledge stored in digital form.
• The findings of this study could inform policies and interventions to record and share indigenous knowledge in Africa.

Digitalisation: what’s missing?

• They are used in irrigation farming, precision farming, drought predictions, micro-climate monitoring, and crop disease risk assessments.
• But my study found little evidence of indigenous agricultural knowledge being preserved.
• South Africa has developed a system to document indigenous knowledge.

How it could be done

• Technologies such as smartphones, voice recorders and video cameras can capture texts, videos, images and voice narrations about indigenous plants and traditional agricultural practices.
• These could cover information on crop production systems, food preservation and livestock management.
• The study found that databases of these practices and information could be a great resource for farmers.

Hurdles to overcome

• Governments could make strategic investments to overcome these challenges.
• I argue in my paper that the application of indigenous agricultural knowledge practices could help address declining agricultural productivity on the continent.
• In addition, I argue in favour of promoting indigenous knowledge of agricultural practices to address social challenges.

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