Collect Earth: Land Use and Land Cover Assessment through Augmented Visual Interpretation

31/07/2017

Collect Earth is a free and open source software for land monitoring developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The software is part of the set of tools called Open Foris, and was developed with Google Earth, Bing Maps and Google Earth Engine. Collect Earth is...

Developing Apps: Building and Sharing Knowledge Workshop

28/07/2017

A workshop called “Developing Apps: Building and Sharing Knowledge” will be held from July 31th to August 4th 2017 in FAO HQ in Rome, Italy, as part of the development of four new agricultural service apps delivered by FAO in the framework of the “Agricultural Services and Digital Inclusion in...

Summary of Discussions: Week 3 of the e-Forum on ICTs and Open Data in Agriculture and Nutrition

14/07/2017

The third week of the e-forum discussion on ICTs and Open Data in Agriculture and Nutrition continued with participants sharing tips on different investments that are needed to reap open data benefits. The question for week 3 was: What investments are needed to reap open data benefits and what...

AGORA Webinars: Effective Search Strategies for Researchers. Finding resources on AGORA and other platforms (EN/FR/ES)

13/07/2017

As promoted on AIMS We are pleased to announce three upcoming webinars in English, French and Spanish about developing search strategie for researchers. We will demonstrate how a well formulated search strategy can facilitate literature search on the AGORA platform via Summon and on other platforms...

Seminar Summary: Towards Inclusive Rural Communication Services, contributing to poverty reduction and the SDGs

05/07/2017

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) recently held on the 27th of June a seminar entitled, " Towards Inclusive Rural Communication Services: Contributing to Poverty Reduction and the SDGs". This seminar is timely in that FAO recently aligned its strategic objectives with...

FAO Director-General urges African agriculture ministers to tackle rural youth unemployment through investments and ICTs

04/07/2017

Youth employment should be at the center of any strategy to face economic and demographic challenges in Africa, the Director-General of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization José Graziano da Silva told a joint African Union- European Union meeting, hosted at FAO headquarters in Rome on July 2nd...

Summary of Discussions: Week 2 of the e-Forum on ICTs and Open Data in Agriculture and Nutrition

03/07/2017

The second week of the e-forum discussion on ICTs and Open Data in Agriculture and Nutrition continued with participants sharing examples and case studies on open data in agriculture. The question for week 2 was: What is the potential for open data in agriculture and nutrition? Does open data...

Summary of Discussions: Week 1 of the e-Forum on ICTs and Open Data in Agriculture and Nutrition

26/06/2017

The first week of our e-forum discussion on ICTs and Open Data in Agriculture and Nutrition generated many insightful contributions. The discussion explored the crossroads between ICTs and issues around Open Data in agriculture and nutrition. The question for week 1 was: What role can ICTs play in...