Member profile
Ms. Ana Islas Ramos
Organization:
FAO
Country:
Italy
Field(s) of expertise:
I am working on:
Food education and behavioral strategies
Ms. Ana Islas Ramos
The usefulness of digital technologies relies heavily upon the availability of relevant context-specific local data. In my view, the biggest challenge to widespread and just digitalization is the investment (and largely non-digital effort) to gather data at the ground level (ie. farm surveys, individual food consumption assessments, soil sampling, etc.). Governments need to invest in developing capacities to gather accurate data and in recurrent, frequent data collection effots, which is very costly. The DC could advocate for such efforts and function as a mechanism to mobilize resources towards data poor geographical areas and topics.