In collaboration with the FAO, the e-Agriculture Community of Practice organized its 26th e-Agriculture forum ICTs for resilience from 28 November to 13 December 2016. The mandate for the e-Agriculture Action Line was extended in the WSIS+10 Vision. Building on work to [...]

This good practice fact sheet sets out to show how an SMS Gateway system developed by FAO has been used to improve rural communication, support animal disease crisis management and contribute to livelihood resilience for small-scale farmers. Focusing on the case study of avian influenza in Bangladesh, [...]

The objective of this good practice fact sheet is to provide guidance on using remote sensing technology in a developing country environment, in particular to verify infrastructure rehabilitation. The document explores how the technology can be used to monitor improvements [...]

The Desert Locust is considered the world’s most dangerous migratory pest species. It threatens people’s livelihoods, food security, the environment and economic development. A single outbreak can affect as many as 65 of the world’s poorest countries, and up to [...]