Posts on the Country "Italy"
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2019
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2019
Digital Agriculture Transformation Seminar : Challenges to be addressed
Rome, Italy 12/06/2019 – 13/06/2019
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and partners will hold the Digital Agriculture Transformation Seminar: The challenges to be addressed. The seminar will be held in Rome, Italy on the 12th and 13th of June, 2019.
Digital Agriculture Transformation Seminar
21/05/2019
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has organized the Digital Agriculture Transformation Seminar which will be held on the 12th and 13th of June, 2019. The theme of the seminar is 'The challenges to be addressed'. The two day seminar will focus on the transformational digital technologies...
e-Agriculture Community of Practice reaches 15,000
02/05/2019
The e-Agriculture community is now above 15,000 users. e-Agriculture is a global community of practice, where people from all over the world exchange information, ideas, and resources related to the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) for sustainable agriculture and rural...
First TECA Moderated discussion on the topic of Agricultural Mechanization
03/04/2019
The Technologies and Practices for Small Agricultural Producers (TECA) is an online platform that gathers successful agricultural technologies and practices to facilitate knowledge exchange and help family farmers in the field. Recently TECA has launched the first moderated discussion on the topic...
Focus on women and ICTs in Agriculture
20/03/2019
In most developing countries due to rural-urban migration, rural communities are losing young people and agriculture is robbed of the needed workforce. The result has been that many smallholder farms have more women and girls remaining on the farms providing bulk of the labour force. Advances in...
How FAO RuralInvest Software Improves Agriculture Investments
05/03/2019
By Günther Feiler, Capacity Development Officer, FAO Rome, and Thomas Muenzel, Investment Support Officer, FAO Bangkok ( The article was originally published by the ICTworks and we reproduce for our community. All rights acknowledged) Experience has shown that substantial public investments in...
Focus on the Blockchain for Agriculture
26/02/2019
There is a growing acceptance of blockchain use in food and agriculture. This comes as part of the growth of ICTs in the last decade and technology has promised to open many opportunities to overcome some of the challenges faced in agriculture. For example, technology can allow more inclusion...
E-Agriculture in Action: Blockchain for Agriculture
01/02/2019
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) have recently published a title called, ‘ Blockchain for Agriculture, Opportunities and Challenges’ as part of the E-Agriculture in Action series publications. This is part of the...
Season's Greetings from e-Agriculture
19/12/2018
2018 has been a remarkable year for the e-Agriculture. We continued to foster the global community of practice through dialogue, information exchange and sharing of ideas related to the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) for sustainable agriculture and rural development. We...