The WSIS+20 Forum High-Level Event is scheduled to be held from 27 to 31 May 2024. FAO is organizing a session on Thursday 30th May 2024, 11:00-11:45 CEST on ‘The Future of Digital Agriculture: Process for Progress- Reflecting and Building on WSIS 20 years’ journey’.

The Agricultural Stress Index System (ASIS) has been recently added to the DPG Registry. ASIS is an innovative tool developed by FAO to monitor agricultural drought across the globe. Updating its data every 10 days, ASIS utilizes satellite technology to pinpoint regions at high risk of water stress and drought.

Over the last years, FAO has been developing and implementing digital inclusion initiatives, scaling up innovative digital technologies for development and targeted interventions worldwide. The FAO Digital Services Portfolio (DSP) and the FAO Hand-in-Hand (HIH) Geospatial Platform (GP) are at the forefront of this effort.

The Digital Public Good Alliance (DPGA)'s State of the Digital Public Goods Ecosystem Report 2023 showcases the power of  Digital Public Goods (DPGs) in shaping a better future.

Launched in 2021, the Tanzanian version of the FAO Digital Services Portfolio (DSP), Ugani Kiganjani, is driving agricultural transformation, fostering partnerships, and paving the way for more sustainable and climate-resilient agrifood systems.

 

The 2023 Science and Innovation Forum has come to an end, leaving the world with a renewed sense of hope and purpose. The discussions, collaborations, and innovations that unfolded during this event have ignited a spark in the global scientific community, compelling us to work collectively towards a brighter, more sustainable future.

Showcasing two of its flagship initiatives in the area of digital transformation, FAO will host two interactive Innovation Talks at the FAO Science and Innovation Forum 2023 (SIF 2023).

FAO's new Agroinformatics Platform (AP) aims to showcase through its expansion all the new possibilities and horizons that are opening now to enable more targeted interventions on the ground. 

On International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste, the spotlight shines on the launch of the FAO Food Loss App (FLAPP), a groundbreaking initiative in the global battle against food loss and waste. 

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. 

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”

To answer the challenges that dairy and meat business in Central Asia has to tackle today, the EBRD and FAO have joined forces to offer new digital solutions to build resilience and contribute to more efficient, resilient and inclusive agrifood systems. The Agrokomek app has just been launched in Kazhakstan.

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.

Country Representatives of FAO, IFAD and WFP in Rwanda  visited fellow women producers and cross border traders to celebrate International Women’s Day under the theme: “DigitALL: Innovation and technology for gender equality:  Leveraging the transformative power of inclusive digitalization and innovation for rural women and girls." 

Membership will help FAO contribute to making digital tools and knowledge products more accessible to farmers

Women are a key to the transformation of agrifood systems worldwide and to realizing the aspirations set out in the Sustainable Development Goals.