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The Compass: Ground Shift: The Farming Revolution: Ground Shift: Digital technology and rural communities

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Ground Shift: Digital technology and rural communities

Ground Shift: The Farming Revolution

BBC World Service - The Compass, Ground Shift: The Farming Revolution, Ground Shift: Digital technology and rural communities

How digital and mobile phone technology is changing farming and boosting prosperity

How digital and mobile phone technology is changing farming and boosting prosperity in rural communities

Anna Jones looks at how digital and mobile phone technology is changing farming and boosting prosperity in rural communities around the world.

Anna goes on a road trip through Ghana with young entrepreneur Peter Awin, transporting animal vaccines from the capital Accra to the remote northern region. Peter has developed a mobile app called Cowtribe, which connects some of West Africa’s poorest smallholder farmers with vital animal health and veterinary services. For the first time ever they can prevent their animals from getting sick - and all because of a mobile phone.

In north-west Queensland, Anna hears how one farmer is bringing super-fast internet speeds to some of the most isolated communities in the world. With Australian families leaving the outback due to poor connectivity, William Harrington’s Wi-Sky internet is helping to keep bush communities alive.

But who owns all this data? As Millennials' pull agriculture into the 21st Century, are farmers ready for the changes that come with it?

(Photo: Internet tower in rural Australia)

The Compass: Ground Shift: The Farming Revolution

Ground Shift talks to the next generation of farmers in Ghana, Australia and the USA.

Ground Shift talks to the next generation of farmers. In Ghana, Australia and the USA, Anna Jones investigates what young farmers make of the agriculture they’ve inherited, and how they are transforming the way food is produced. She finds out how farmers in different parts of the world face difficult choices as they adapt to new technology and environmental change. Will we see more agriculture in and around cities? Are new people being attracted to farming? And, in a globalised world, are new business opportunities opening up?

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