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The role of ICTs in sustainable intensification of horticulture and other related views by Dr Fen Beed the 200th Member in SCPI-Hortcrops Dgroup CoP
04/08/2017
This interview of Dr Fen Beed the 200th Member of the SCPI-Hortcrops Dgroup community is part of the follow-up discussion on Sustainable Crop Production Intensification of Horticulture production based systems. Could you tell us briefly about yourself, and why you are interested in the ongoing...
What Is the Future of ICT4Ag?
22/06/2017
With the ICTforAg Conference scheduled for June 23rd in Washington, D.C., we got to thinking about the future of AgTech. A key lesson learned from the first wave of ICT4Ag development, which is now driving a new era, is that it doesn’t matter how brilliantly an app is designed but rather whether the...
Invitation to join the Workshop at WSIS Forum 2017 on eKrishok
30/05/2017
Dear Fellow Colleagues, Greetings from Bangladesh, Trust all are doing well. We are glad to share that BIID will host a session titled eKrishok: Making ICT Works for Agricultural Sector to Empower Farmers and Agro-SMEs during the WSIS Forum Meeting 2017 to be held during June 12-16, 2017 at Geneva...
The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and ICTs in agriculture : Introduction
08/05/2017
This introductory piece is part of a broader series of blogs that will look at the application of ICTs to the SDGs. The first blog introduces the SDGs and their conceptual framework and their integration to the agricultural domain - using the FAO mainstreaming of SDGs as an example. In the...
Interview with Innocent Chamisa: Looking back, looking ahead …ICTs and Sustainable Crop Production Intensification...
02/05/2017
Following the forum on The Role of ICTs in Sustainable Crop Production Intensification (SCPI) of horticulture crop based system (mainly fruits, vegetables, roots and tubers) we caught up with Innocent Chamisa - the co-moderator from the Rural and Urban Crop and Mechanization Systems Team (AGPML) and...
AGRIinsight | Connecting People - to Place - to Opportunity
26/04/2017
AGRIinsight is a UK-based company developing innovative technologies to be used in emerging markets. AGRIinsight has developed an online platform that has a powerful geo-visualisation interface, relevant map overlays and search and communication tools that enables users to store, visualise and...