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● projectScaled · national · 2006
Digital Green: participatory video for agricultural extension
Digital Green disseminates agricultural information to smallholder farmers in India through participatorily produced digital video: content production with local farmers, a video database, facilitator-mediated instruction and an introduction sequence for new communities.
illustrative atlas image · mdreza jalali / UnsplashDGDigital Green / Digital Green TrustJ(JEEViKA (Bihar Rural Livelihoods Promotion Society)RGRikin GandhiKTKentaro ToyamaGRGautam Rao
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01 The context
It relies on women's self-help groups via JEEViKA and NRLM. Since mid-2023 it evolved into Farmer.Chat, a multimodal generative AI assistant (with OpenAI and Gooey.AI); the GAIA II phase runs 2025-2027.
02 How it works
03 What it stands on
Evidence level
Own experience
Grounded in published theory
Documented evidence elsewhere
Independently evaluated here
Peer-reviewed research documents this project: the strongest evidence level in the atlas.
The evidence 2 ›
EvidenceDigital Green: Participatory Video and Mediated Instruction for Agricultural ExtensionInformation Technologies & International Development (ITID), vol. 5(1) · 2009
EvidenceImproving smallholder agriculture via video-based group extensionJournal of Development Economics, Vol. 169 · 2024