IITA GoSeed eCommerce website is a digital platform for the sales and distribution of early generation materials. Seed producers therefore place orders and make payment for early generation seeds seeds and it’s is delivered to them or orders are picked up by clients.

Platform: website
Updated on: April 24th, 2020
Contact: Dr. Elohor Diebiru-Ojo
Email: Nil

App Benefits

IITA GoSeed tools helps seed producers to order early generation seeds directly from the the right source from the comfort of their home. This platform provides information about stock available and pick up locations. Payments are made virtually too for delivery.

The tool is a smartphone app which uses artificial intelligence to identify major disease and pest damage types in cassava leaves.

Platform: android
Contact: James Legg
J.LEGG@cgiar.org

App Benefits

The tool helps farmers, extensionists or researchers with no knowledge of cassava diseases to identify them and learn how to control them. It is linked to Seed Tracker.

A web-app for real-time disease reporting and disease surveillance.

Platform: website
Updated on: April 23rd, 2020
Contact: Lava Kumar L.
kumar@cgair.org

Field Book app for collecting field evaluation data, Coordinate app for Genotyping sample collection, Inventory app to assist with rapid inventory and weighing of seed stocks and harvest bags and Intercross app for collecting crossing data.

Platform: android
Contact: Najimu Adetoro
N.ADETORO@cgiar.org

App Benefits

Increases efficiency and improves data quality

KoboCollect it is an application that I use with project staff who are in the field to track our beneficiaries, target and project activities.

App info and Properties

Platform: android
Contact: Amaral Chibeba
A.Chibeba@cgiar.org

App Benefits

We use the digital tool to track our targets and project activities so the Project management, staff, beneficiaries and project stakeholders do benefit from the digital tool

Stepwise is an app that can help farmers incrementally adopt farming practices.

Platform: android
Contact: Sarah Margiotta
S.Margiotta@cgiar.org

App Benefits

It breaks down the large basket of practices that are promoted to farmers into different steps the farmer can take, decreasing the investment burden for the farmer by breaking it up into smaller sets of practices.

This tool helps farmers in weed management, ensuring that spray service providers are properly calibrated

Platform: android
Updated on: May 27th, 2021
Contact: Godwin Atser
G.Atser@cgiar.org

App Benefits

The tools helps farmers in accurate dosage measurement, hence it prevents under-dosing and over-dosing which leads to environmental pollution.

ViTSel is an R-based software to visualize results of multi-environment, multi-trait analysis for selection in plant breeding. Given a matrix of genotype by the environment in rows and traits in columns, it produces several descriptive statistics and figures to explore results. It has the capability of define different criteria to identify the best genotypes.

Platform: website
Updated on: May 19th, 2020
Contact: Ibnou Dieng
I.Dieng@cgiar.org

IITA accession map contains locations of origin of four IITA mandate crops, cowpea, maize, yam and cassava as well as agro-ecological zones where they were found. This app was compiled from the Genetic Resources Unit (GRC) germplasm origin database.

Platform: website
IITA Accession Tool
Contact: Tunrayo Alabi
T.ALABI@cgiar.org

App Benefits

It provides a visual presentation of the accession origin of GRC collections. It is also used to plan further germplasm collection survey in the geographical area where gaps exist.