Access to information and communications technology (ICT) is among the challenges to sustainable food production and the agriculture sector in the Philippines, the United Nations’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Tuesday.

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), together with support from partners including the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA), have developed the E-agriculture Strategy Guide. 

The objective of the session is to share initiatives on e-agriculture – the challenges and opportunities from public and private sector.

Experience sharing in implementing ICT solutions for agriculture; Bring together proven e-agriculture solutions that will benefit agriculture stakeholders; Establish a Community-of-Practice (CoP) among e-agriculture solution providers; Experts involved in implementing e-agriculture strategies in Asia-Pacific countries; Detailed presentation of methodology to...

With the recent publication of its e-RNR (renewable natural resources) masterplan, the tiny Himalayan country of Bhutan has joined an exclusive club of only a handful of countries globally, including Rwanda and Côte d’Ivoire, to have a concerted national strategy...