FAO's special event at SIF2023 ‘AI and Digital Tools for Climate Resilient Agrifood Systems’ will take place on Thursday 19th October, 14.30-16.00 CEST to showcase concrete examples of technological innovations that aim at transforming traditional agricultural practices into sophisticated, data-driven systems that will protect efficiently our people and our planet. 

On September 7-8, 2023 the Government of the Republic of Uzbekistan - with the technical support of FAO - will host the International Conference on Food Security as a global multilateral platform to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals in the field of food security.

ФАО приглашает новаторов в области агротехнологий продемонстрировать свои цифровые решения на демонстрационных фермах в странах Европы и Центральной Азии (Албания, Азербайджан, Босния и Герцеговина, Грузия, Кыргызстан, Таджикистан, Турция и Узбекистан) в рамках.

Building on the DSP model and ESA’s experience in designing and evaluate policy instruments, with the valuable support of the national Country Office, FAO has developed a comprehensive e-extension platform called “Smart Extension and Efficient Decision-making (S.E.E.D) Hub”.

The GEO-AI Challenge for Cropland Mapping is an initiative of the UN Open-GIS group, initiated by FAO, ITU and UNODC that aims to develop accurate and cost-effective classification models for cropland extent mapping with machine learning techniques.

From July 4 to 6, 2023, a technical worksh...

Европейский банк реконструкции и развития (ЕБРР), Инвестиционный центр ФАО и Отдел цифровизации и информатики ФАО в партнерстве с отраслевыми ассоциациями Казахстана разработали специализированное бесплатное приложение.

This three-day event, which will take place from 11th to 13th July in Amman, Jordan, aims at assisting countries in the NENA region in the development of their e-agriculture national strategy and consequently to further promote and invest in digital agriculture.

As Digitalization is now more than ever critical for accelerating the full implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development at all levels, the UN Food Stocktaking Moment special event on ‘Digitalization for Resilient Agrifood systems’ will be held in Rome on the 25^th July, 14h30-15h30 CEST.

The FAO's Hand-in-Hand Initiative leads a training mission in Asunción, as Paraguay is preparing projects for the second Global Investment Forum to be held in Rome in October.

В 2021 году Продовольственная и сельскохозяйственная организация Объединенных Наций (ФАО) начала реализацию глобальной инициативы «Цифровые деревни» с целью популяризации цифровых инноваций в сельских общинах. В настоящее время в странах Европы и Центральной Азии происходит расширение масштабов данной инициативы с целью повышения эффективности источников средств к существованию, благосостояния и социальной сплоченности в этом регионе.

FAO in Europe and Central Asia (REU), along with its partners in Albania, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Türkiye, and Uzbekistan, is taking action to accelerate the digital transformation of agriculture and rural areas through the Digital Villages Initiative (DVI). 

FAO AgroInformatics TechTalks are interactive expert talks hosted by FAO Digitalization and Informatics Division (CSI) inviting agroinformatics experts to foster peer-to-peer discussion and strengthen links within the agroinformatics community and beyond.

Agricultural statistics play a paramount role in efficient water use and water management. FAO estimates that around 70 percent of freshwater withdrawals go into agriculture.

The 2023 edition of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Forum organized by ITU, UNESCO, UNDP and UNCTAD from the 13th to the 17th of March under the theme, “Action Lines for building back better and accelerating the achievement of the SDGs” concretely illustrated this vision through an intensive week of successful information exchanges, knowledge creation and sharing of best practices, in close collaboration with all WSIS action line co-/facilitators and other UN Organizations that gathered in Geneva to better identify emerging trends and foster partnerships together.

Call for Open Agricultural Advisory Services

 

Call for Open Agricultural Advisory Services

Team 16 wins the hackathon with a proposal for an advisory service for Sudanese farmers