Posts on the Country "Italy"
Your feedback requested on the new feature for members area
13/11/2019
Dear e-Agriculture Member, As you might be aware, we are re-designing e-Agriculture CoP Website so that it can better fit your needs. We reached out to you in a survey 3 months ago, and we feel we have captured your requests with new features we are proposing and we welcome your feedback In order to...23/ 10
2019
Webinar:Towards the establishment of an International Digital Council for Food and Agriculture
Rome, Italy 23/10/2019
- Presenter: Mr. Samuel Varas, Director of the Information Technology Division at FAO,
- Moderator: Ms. Meng Zeng, Information Technology Officer at FAO.
Mr. Varas will provide an introduction to the role that digitalization can play in making agriculture more productive and sustainable. He will then present the ideas behind the International Digital Council and the multi-stakeholder process leading to its implementation.
The multi-stakeholder consultation on the establishment of the International Digital Council for Food and Agriculture gathers momentum at CFS46
18/10/2019
CFS delegates attend the side event for the establishment of the digital council Rome. 18 October 2019. The Food and Agriculture Organization hosted and led a multi-stakeholder consultation on the establishment of the International Digital Council for Food and Agriculture in a side event of the...
FAO webinar series on strengthening agricultural extension and advisory services system
17/10/2019
17 October. Rome. As a part of FAO’s work in transforming National Agricultural Extension and Advisory Services System (EAS), FAO’s Research and Extension Unit wishes to start a webinar series to raise awareness on various challenges and opportunities related to strengthening and reforming EAS. EAS...18/ 10
2019
Consultation on Establishing an International Digital Council for Food and Agriculture
Rome, Italy 18/10/2019
In January 2019, at the Global Forum for Food and Agriculture (GFFA), the agriculture Ministers of 74 countries issued a communiqué that called upon FAO “to draw up, in consultation with stakeholders including the World Bank, African Development Bank, IFAD, WFP, OECD, WTO, ITU, OIE and CTA a concept for the establishment of an international Digital Council for Food and Agriculture”
The goal of this side event is to have a final open multi-stakeholder consultation regarding the needs, scope and functionality of the International Digital Council for Food and Agriculture proposal.
China shares its approaches and experiences in digital agriculture and e-commerce transformation for its rural communities
11/10/2019
MARA delegation presents at the 6th FAO Digital Innovation Dialogue session. Rome. 11 October 2019. Mr. Wang Xiaobing, the Director-General of Information Centre at the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of the People’s Republic of China (MARA) led a delegation to FAO. The team presented...11/ 10
2019
DIGITAL INNOVATION DIALOGUE: Session 6 - China’s Approaches and Experiences in Digital Agriculture and Digital Rural Area
Rome, Italy 11/10/2019
In recent years, China has made great efforts to promote the integration of the internet, big data, artificial intelligence with the development of agriculture and rural areas, vigorously develop digital agriculture, accelerate the development of e-commerce in rural areas, and actively promote informatization in rural areas. In 2018, the retail sales of e-commerce in rural areas in China reached 1.37 trillion yuan, the e-commerce business volume of agricultural products exceeded 300 billion yuan, and the coverage of optical fiber in villages reached 96 percent.
FAO hosts Digital Innovation Dialogue session 4: Digital Transformation and Gender Equality
02/10/2019
2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development emphasizes the importance of gender equality and empowerment of all women and girls ( SDG 5). There is a need to leverage information and communication technologies (ICTs) to empower women and also for the achievement of all SDG Goals. The linkages between...
DIGITAL INNOVATION DIALOGUE: Session 4 - Digital Transformation and Gender Equality
26/09/2019
DIGITAL INNOVATION DIALOGUE: Session 4 - Digital Transformation and Gender Equality Digital Innovation Dialogue was launched in early 2019 by the FAO IT Division (CIO) to serve as a forum for increasing and exchanging knowledge between industry experts and FAO staff actively working on digital...