What is Plantwise?

Plantwise is an initiative, led by CABI, to improve food security and the lives of the rural poor by reducing crop losses.

How is Plantwise helping the world's poorest farmers lose less and grow more?

By delivering actionable knowledge:
Plantwise is helping countries establish community-based plant clinics which deliver practical advice to farmers when their crops have a problem.

We are helping to join up the research community and the farmers, by translating the researchers’ knowledge into practical, accessible advice and feeding back information from farmers into a central knowledge bank.

We are bringing together the best of the knowledge in the plant health field, including local pest distribution data, and making it available from a central resource.

How far have we got?

	We have built a fully working prototype of the knowledge bank, containing detailed pest distribution maps, diagnostic facility and treatment support. Explore it here and give us your feedback.
	We have already helped establish over 182 plant clinics in 15 countries and are running pilots in 5 more countries. These clinics have helped over 100,000 smallholder farmers and their families.
	We have brought together over 60 local partners and 7 international partners to make the clinic programme and the knowledge bank a reality.
	We have initial funds of $28 million from our lead donors DFID (UK Department for International Development and SDC (Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation) and others.
	This is just the beginning. This is a new initiative, barely 2 years old and we have plans to help millions more farmers and researchers access the knowledge they need to improve food securty and people's lives.

Overview of Plantwise

Find out how Plantwise is improving lives and food security

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