KIAG

31/07/2024

The DHL sorting center in Poznań (Poland) recently hit a new record of processing 425.000 parcels in a single day.

We are honored to play our part in software development for this success!

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/piotr-mierzwicki-38006ab0_mcl-activity-7181680768962707457-SpTc?trk=public_profile

Image created with generative AI bei Midjourney

28/06/2021

InnovAfrica Consortium Meeting

As the InnovAfrica project is in its final steps of implementation, all project partners met from 15 to 16 June - this time online – to discuss the projects progress and the final steps to successfully complete all activities.

For KIAG, together with its partners, the focus is on documenting the numerous results and findings. These are now gradually being processed for the Knowledge Platform (http://kp-innovafrica.africabiosciences.org/) and published hereon and thus made available to farmers, extension officers, scientists and other interested parties. Readers can learn about techniques for cultivating brachiaria grass as livestock forage, food crop production systems and other relevant aspects that need to be considered such as household’s needs and the structure of value chains.

21/04/2021

Based on the project results and the scientific findings of the InnovAfrica project, concrete guidelines for (small) farmers and extension officers have now been developed as farmer manuals.

The knowledge gained about techniques regarding sustainable agriculture intensification for forage-livestock systems and food crop production is presented therein. Individual aspects and steps for practical implementation like e.g. intercropping or selection of cultivars are elaborated in the context of smallholder farmers.

Especially for farmers with small land size, intercropping offers a sustainable and efficiency-increasing method of cultivating maize and beans, which are widely grown crops in all project countries. Planting calendars with an overview of the different steps in the course of the year have been developed to suit the climatic conditions of the individual project countries.

The pictures show the planting calendars for Malawi and the Free State of South Africa as well as for Ethiopia. Small farmers have the opportunity to make optimal use of their available land. They become less dependent on single products and thus have the chance to satisfy their own nutritional needs and also to operate more diversely on the food market.

Data needed to perform the scientific analysis have been captured using the KIPUS framework which allows flexible adjustment of questionnaires and subsequent use in Business Intelligence analysis systems.

The complete manuals and findings will be published on the project's knowledge platform http://kp-innovafrica.africabiosciences.org/ and made usable for everyone.

For more information about the project visit the website: http://www.innovafrica.eu/

31/07/2020

Business Impact Profile for DEG

DEG, a subsidiary of KfW, is a financing partner of private-sector companies operating in developing and emerging countries. DEG provides long-term financing and promotional programmes, and advises the companies as they implement their investments.

KIAG has developed an innovative tool enabling DEG to provide their partners with impact data in a rich visual presentation, allowing them to easily analyse the data.

Web links about DEG and the project:
https://www.deginvest.de/International-financing/DEG/
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/julian-frede_business-impact-profile-bip-activity-6689484616098742272-VAwe

31/07/2020

KIAG creates the new website for „Antike am Königsplatz“

The museums at Königsplatz in Munich – State Collections of Antiquities and Glyptothek – rank among the leading international museums for antique art.

Working closely with the director and the curators, KIAG has developed an entirely new website that puts the focus on the visitor. Enhancing the usability on mobile devices was another key aspect.

All important information for visiting the individual museums is clearly accessible on the home page. Included are an event calendar, the history of each museum and its collections, and a gallery presenting selected highlights.

The website also introduces an online shop offering publications and souvenirs as well as reproductions of several masterpieces from the museums‘ collections.

The website is accessible here: www.antike-am-koenigsplatz.mwn.de

08/04/2020

Production of learning videos for replication of sustainable agriculture intensification in Sub-Saharan Africa

KIAG partnered up with Agriculture and Research Council (ARC) in South Africa to create on-site farming demonstration videos which will help farmers to replicate innovative farming techniques. KIAG’s Project Manager ICT4D, Simon Striegel, travelled to Phuthaditjhaba in the Maluti-a-Phofung municipality in the Free State Province to meet farming communities who demonstrated best practices in mid- and small-scale bean and maize production – from planting to marketing. The videos will be made available on the InnovAfrica Knowledge Platform at http://kp-innovafrica.africabiosciences.org/ shortly.

07/04/2020

InnovAfrica Consortium Meeting in Lilongwe, Malawi

As the InnovAfrica project has entered the last two years of its implementation, all project partners met in Lilongwe from 12 to 15 February to discuss project progress and the next steps of implementation. More detailed information on the meeting proceedings are available on the InnovAfrica website http://innovafrica.eu/.

In the coming months, KIAG together with project partners will focus on consolidating project results and research findings to generate knowledge that can be used and replicated by practitioners in the six African case countries. Techniques for sustainable agriculture intensification for forage-livestock systems and food crop production are promoted to improve food security in the small-scale farming context.

Photo: The InnovAfrica Consortium in Lilongwe, Malawi (copyright ILRI-BeCA)

06/03/2020

GCP: Vietnamese coffee sector advances with sustainability monitoring

The system behind this effort has been custom-built with our inhouse WeTrace framework for GCP.
We are proud to support coffee farmers in their respective countries for the sustainable production of good quality coffee.

The Vietnamese coffee sector has engaged with local government, trade, producers and GCP since 2017 in order to gather sustainability information and baselines on coffee regions. The aim is to inform local partners’ agendas for improvement and interventions.

19/12/2019

KIAG on traceability and business intelligence mission in the Green Innovation Centre Mali

After the initial field study of ICT usage and preferences of producers in the mango, potato and rice value chains, KIAG was invited by GIZ and AFC to present the study results, elaborate an approach on digital traceability in the Malian Mango sector and to train the programme’s M&E team on data analytics and the use of state-of-the-art business intelligence software. This will help the Green Innovation Centres reporting and evaluation practices in the future.
Interviews conducted with key public and private sector representatives have clearly shown that digital traceability is the future for Malian Mango industry and next steps in implementing an ICT-based system along the value chain are now put in action.

19/12/2019

Career Day (Unternehmenstag) at Hochschule Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences

On 14. November 2019, KIAG presented its work in the field of development cooperation and traceability at the “Unternehmenstag”, which has been organized by Hochschule Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences. Many interested students shared their views on the projects currently implemented by KIAG in different industries and countries.

Foto © Eva Tritschler 2019