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2025 Global Multi-Stakeholder SIDS Partnership Dialogue - SIDS Partnership Labs hosted by FAO

2025 Global Multi-Stakeholder SIDS Partnership Dialogue - SIDS Partnership Labs hosted by FAO

Date: 12 December 2025

Time: 13:30-2:45 p.m. (New York time) / 7:30-8:45 p.m. (Rome time) 

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3:00-4:15 p.m. (New York time) / 9:00-10:15 p.m. (Rome time)

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FAO’s Global Network of Digital Agriculture Innovation Hubs: Accelerating Inclusive and Sustainable Digital Transformation
October 2025
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) will present its Global Network of Digital Agriculture Innovation Hubs at Synergy Days 2025, Europe’s premier event for digital innovators in the agri-food sector, taking place on 21–22 October in Rotterdam. Funded through FAO’s Flexible Voluntary Contribution (FVC) mechanism, the subprogramme establishes a global network of country-led hubs designed around national priorities, digital maturity and partner capacities. Launched in...

e-Agriculture is a global community of practice that facilitates dialogue, information exchange and sharing of ideas related to the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) for sustainable agriculture and rural development.

The mission of e-Agriculture is to facilitate the discussion on the adoption and use of ICTs and digital innovations in agriculture, forestry, fisheries, natural resource management and rural development.

e-Agriculture was born out of Action Line C7 ICT Applications: e-agriculture from the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO of the UN) was assigned as facilitator of this action line and also took up the role of the facilitation of the e-Agriculture Community of Practice

News and e-Agriculture

Reading ripeness: A drone flies over the vineyards of a Bordeaux winemaker in southwestern France. Equipped with an infrared camera, the drone can help determine when the grapes are mature and ready for harvest. CREDIT: JEAN PIERRE MULLER / AFP / GETTY IMAGES
20/01/2026
From spotting leaks to patrolling for pathogens, flying robots are taking up chores on the farm. By Rachel Ehrenberg 11 October 2018 Not long ago, drones on a farm meant male bees, essential for a healthy hive. But like catfish, cloud and viral, drone has taken on a new meaning in the age of high...
A drone operator flies a drone at a farm at Tengeru, near the city of Arusha
20/01/2026
18-Mar-2017 Advances in information and communication technology (ICT) are leading to improvements in food security and safety in Asia and the Pacific, according to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). https://www.foodnavigator-asia.com/Article/2016/08/31/Information-and-c…...
A drone operator flies a drone at a farm at Tengeru, near the city of Arusha
20/01/2026
June 13, 2017 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 information gap in agriculture affects the...