TAAT e-catalogs

2023-2025 | Knowledge management system | IITA

TAAT e-catalogs infographic

The objective of the e-catalogs is to double crop, livestock, and fish productivity in Africa by engaging public and private sectors to rapidly roll out proven productivity-increasing technologies to more than 40 million smallholder farmers across the continent.

The project

The TAAT e-catalogs are an online resource that lists vetted and validated agri-tech solutions for the African continent.

TAAT e-catalogs service map
The e-catalogs are part of a complex ecosystem with various players and stakeholders. We worked closely with the team in Benin to map this out and design a service that enables technologies to be submitted by tech owners, edited and classified by the TAAT team, and finally adopted by governments, development organisations and private sector users.

The web application via which the e-catalogs' content is administrated is a custom-built system tailored to the project's needs. Training sessions with the admin team were part of the deliverables of this project.

TAAT e-catalogs user interface showing a map

There are 3 different e-catalogs on the website: for governments, private sector and development organisations. Each e-catalog contains information that is specific to its target group. Technologies are categorised by type, commodity, value chain step and where they can be used.

After a technology has been submitted by its owner, the technology profile team prepares a page with clear and concise information to be included in the e-catalogs. But before it is published the technology needs to be approved by an independent team of experts. Each technology profile page can be printed as a one-page brochure for better portability in areas with low internet access.

Users can make themed collections of technologies that play well together, AKA 'toolkits', and print or save them as a PDF brochure with a custom front and a back page.

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