Daniel Onwude, Kanaha Shoji, Roberta Evangelista, Thomas Motmans (left to right) during a Q&A panel session at West Africa Cold Chain Summit in Lagos. Image: BASE
Daniel Onwude, Kanaha Shoji, Roberta Evangelista, Thomas Motmans ( left to right ) during a Q&A panel session at West Africa Cold Chain Summit in Lagos. Image: BASE - Empa and BASE (Basel Agency for Sustainable Energy) launched a data-science driven mobile app that aims to minimize the loss of food production and lower greenhouse gas emissions by enabling access to cooling facilities and allowing smallholder farmers to monitor the shelf-life of their produce. After successfully implementing the app "YourVCCA" in India, the team has recently expanded the project into Nigeria where they have cemented key partnerships with public and private stakeholders in the industries of technology, data science and financing. The project expansion to Nigeria will be marked by piloting the software in various regions across the country, together with several local clean technology providers, starting with ColdHubs Limited. Beyond the on-the-ground insights gained from the site visits and the testing of the first prototype of the mobile application solution, the trip enabled the team to present the project at the largest cold chain conference in West Africa and to explore key partnerships, for example with Data Science Nigeria and Infracredit. The solution was very well received in Nigeria and was described as a game-changer by key actors in the cold chain industry. The expansion of the project Your Virtual Cold Chain Assistant in Nigeria is commissioned by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and is being carried out by BASE in partnership with Empa on behalf of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH.
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