Social Developing Goals The FrontlineSMS product impacts the following United Nations Sustainable Development goals: No poverty, Zero hunger, Climate action, peace, justice, and strong institutions. Zero Hunger The FrontlineSMS increases awareness of hunger existence. The product provides hunger alerts to governments and other stakeholders. Provides education on better agricultural activities. The use of mobile phones is widespread in developing countries where hunger is common. The FrontlineSMS product can be used to eradicate hunger in such countries by providing smallholder farmers with valuable information on irrigation practices, pest and disease diagnostic, and treatment practices. The proper information will increase the production of food in developing countries. Again, the SMS system will give real-time alerts from hunger-stricken communities to governments. These will hasten the process of providing aides and reduce deaths from hunger. No Poverty Increased information on available opportunities Increasing efficiency of markets value addition Reliable information on access to funding Mobile phones and associated technology are common in most rural and poor communities. FrontlineSMS can be used to reduce poverty by providing information about available opportunities. For instance, farmers in…
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