Client

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

A specialised agency of the United Nations leading international efforts to defeat hunger and improve nutrition and food security. PANEOTECH partners with FAO on agricultural data platforms across Africa.

  • Multilateral / Food Security
  • HQ in Italy
  • 4 projects with PANEOTECH
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Countries

Where we work with The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Projects PANEOTECH has delivered in partnership with The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations across 4 countries.

Burundi 1
Somalia 1
Togo 1
Zambia 1

Engagements

Projects with The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Somalia

Integrated Seed Certification and Traceability System for SARIS Somalia

A national digital platform for SARIS, the Somali Agricultural Regulatory and Inspection Service, that digitises seventeen regulated processes spanning seed certification and plant variety protection, with offline-capable field inspection, QR-verifiable e-certificates, and a public verification portal. Currently in delivery with a working staging environment.

In Delivery
Zambia

Integrated Stakeholder Engagement Platform for the SIFAZ Programme

A national digital platform connecting smallholder farmers, agribusinesses, extension officers, and government institutions across Zambia through USSD, SMS, WhatsApp, and email, built for FAO Zambia's Sustainable Intensification of Smallholder Farming Systems programme.

Live
Togo

e-Agriconseil+, National Agricultural Advisory Platform for Togo

A national agricultural advisory platform for the Institut de Conseil et d'Appui Technique, redesigned for offline-first operation in low-connectivity rural Togo, with audio content in four local languages and a content management system that gives the institution full editorial autonomy.

Live
Burundi

Imbuto, National Digital Platform for the Seed Sector of Burundi

A national platform for the Burundi seed sector that delivers lot by lot traceability, a unified actor registry, a variety catalogue synchronised with the certification authority, and analytical dashboards across all eighteen provinces, in production since May 2025.

Live

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Insights tagged The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Tutorials

Offline-First Field Operations: PWA, Trusted Web Activity, and the Sync Status Contract With the Inspector

Field inspectors do not have time to wonder whether their data was uploaded. The discipline behind offline-first design is the contract you make with the user about sync status, and the engineering that honours it.

Field Notes

SOP Driven Platform Design: Building for Quality Management Audit From Day One

When a regulator operates under a Quality Management System, the digital platform is part of the audit perimeter. Designing for SOP traceability from the start is faster, cheaper, and more defensible than retrofitting it later.

Case Studies

Why Public Sector Regulators Need a Configurable Workflow Engine, Not a Hardcoded Application

Regulatory frameworks change faster than software release cycles. Treat process types, forms, and approvals as data, and the platform survives every legislative amendment without a redeployment.

Tutorials

Scaling Bulk Messaging in African Public Sector Programmes: A Queue and Worker Pattern

How to design bulk messaging architectures that handle 50,000 plus recipients reliably, with concrete patterns from the SIFAZ Outreach Platform deployed for FAO Zambia.

Case Studies

Building a Unified Communication Façade for National Programmes

How a single API gateway behind USSD, SMS, WhatsApp, and email lets institutional clients run national engagement programmes without managing four vendors and four integrations.

Field Notes

Reaching the Last Mile: Why Multi Channel Beats Mobile First in Rural Zambia

Why a smartphone first design would have failed FAO Zambia's SIFAZ programme, and how a unified USSD, SMS, WhatsApp, and email engine reaches farmers across the entire connectivity spectrum.

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