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Cristina Manfre
Cultural Practice, LLC

Cristina Manfre is senior associate with Cultural Practice, LLC, where she provides practical and actionable advice to implementing organizations, agricultural researchers and practitioners on how to address gender issues in the design, monitoring and evaluation of international development programs. Manfre brings over a decade of experience and knowledge to focus on gender issues linked to aspects of economic growth, with an emphasis on agriculture and food security including extension and advisory services, value chain development, information and communication technologies and capacity building.

Articles by Cristina Manfre

Wednesday
September 13
2017

Cristina Manfre / Christopher Burns

From Farm to Phone to Table: A Case Study Series Explores the Impact of Digital Tools on Agriculture

Over the past decade, the use of mobile phones and other digital tools in farming has skyrocketed. Today, more than 60 percent of the population in the developing world now have at least one mobile phone. USAID aims to show that digital tools can improve cost-effectiveness and development outcomes in food security and nutrition programs. Cristina Manfre and Christopher Burns explain a USAID case study series on different approaches.

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Agriculture, Technology

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Base of the Pyramid, smallholder farmers

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Cristina Manfre
Cultural Practice, LLC

Articles by Cristina Manfre

From Farm to Phone to Table: A Case Study Series Explores the Impact of Digital Tools on Agriculture

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Cristina ManfreCultural Practice, LLC

Articles by Cristina Manfre

From Farm to Phone to Table: A Case Study Series Explores the Impact of Digital Tools on Agriculture

Cristina Manfre
Cultural Practice, LLC