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Welcome to Sproutings, a newsletter from Sprout, the open content platform. Sprout is a project of Mercy Corps Agrifin. We're sending this to you, as a valued member of the Sprout community to share news, call for partnerships, and more. Sign up here to subscribe.     Sprout Insider  Opinion Editorial by Kristin Peterson Sprout Platform Lead   Every new year brings the opportunity to try to do better for ourselves, our families and our communities. It’s the same with the Sprout team! In Decem...

Sprout, a project of Mercy Corps Agrifin, and the CGIAR Excellence in Agronomy Initiative (EIA), have joined hands to unleash open digital agriculture advisory content and precision advisory services for farmer facing organizations (FFOs) and the millions of smallholder farmers (SHFs) they serve across Nigeria. Sprout will support EiA to digitize deep researched specific value chain agronomic content for Nigeria using human centered design principles. The content will also be translated in sp...

This week at COP27 the global community of experts have come together to discuss solutions to address climate change with a key focus on climate adaptation for the developing world. In Sub-Saharan Africa, 70% of the population is dependent on agriculture. It is imperative to make farmers the center point for development of climate adaptation tools. Sprout is partnering with TomorrowNow (Press Release) to scale digital weather advisory services (DWAS) to millions of farmers through its network...