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April 2024
Artificial Intelligence
AGROVOC URI: http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_27064
FAO/Lekha Edirisinghe
Today, artificial intelligence and robots have become an integral part of most agricultural processes. Robots and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are being utilized for the benefit of farmers and the agriculture industry as a whole.
Weather forecasting is one of the important aspects for farmers. Flying robots can help farmers with tasks such as crop monitoring, soil analysis and pest control, while AI software can help predict weather conditions and make decisions about when to plant, harvest and apply pesticides, as well as reduce vulnerability to environmental extremes.
Gender equity in access to land
March 2022
March 8 is International Women's Day. Equal access to land has always been the cornerstone of inclusive sustainable development. We...
AGROVOC URI: http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_f29f3106
Rangelands monitoring
February 2022
Rangeland monitoring is an important tool as it helps understand how conditions of rangelands are changing in response to the...
AGROVOC URI: http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_218f84e4
Renewable energy
January 2022
Renewable energy, as experts assert, is a durable solution for energy security which is a vital necessity for humanity and...
AGROVOC URI: http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_25719
Beer
December 2021
Beer is one of the ancient beverage known today the first mentions of which is ten thousand years old. After...
AGROVOC URI: http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_864
Conservation agriculture
November 2021
Conservation agriculture is considered as an environmentally friendly production system. It stops the degradation of the soil which is the...
AGROVOC URI: http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_264f7edd