TECA - Technologies and Practices for Small Agricultural Producers
Knowledge platform for smallholder technologies
Description
TECA - Technologies and Practices for Small Agricultural Producers is a web-based knowledge platform designed to share proven agricultural technologies and practices and to support smallholder farmers and rural advisory services with practical guidance for improving productivity, resilience and nutrition.
Technology
TECA - Technologies and Practices for Small Agricultural Producers uses a multilingual website with searchable content pages, standardised practice descriptions and supporting visuals, and online discussion forums (Exchange Groups) to enable peer learning and knowledge exchange.
Target
The initiative serves smallholder farmers and farm advisors and supports organisations that provide advisory services, research and extension, and producer organisations. The platform hosts around 900 technologies and practices grouped into 11 thematic categories, providing a structured knowledge base for field applications.
Business model
The platform is provided by FAO as a public knowledge platform with open access to documented technologies and practices that can be proposed by organisations and shared with users through the website and forums.
Impact
TECA supports knowledge exchange for family farmers by documenting and sharing tested technologies and practices across production, natural resource management and post-harvest topics, contributing to improved access to practical agricultural knowledge for advisory services and rural communities.
Four Betters
Better environment
Better nutrition
Better production
Better life
