Posts on the Country "Philippines"
Recording of the e-Agriculture webinar on the FarmerLink in the Philippines: Digital Innovation for Agriculture
15/05/2018
On the 25th of April 2018 the e-Agriculture team organized a webinar in partnership with Grameen Foundation on the FarmerLink in the Philippines: Digital Innovation for Agriculture. The webinar presented the strategy used to develop and deploy FarmerLink, and review results of an 18-month pilot...
FAO is using drones to help end hunger
24/01/2018
FAO is using drones to fight hunger, improve nutrition and counter the effects of climate change and extreme weather events. A documentary from Asia and the Pacific Office of the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization shows collaboration with countries to leverage the used of ICTs using drones...
Information gap a challenge to sustainable food production – FAO
13/06/2017
June 13, 2017 Access to information and communications technology (ICT) is among the challenges to sustainable food production and the agriculture sector in the Philippines, the United Nations’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Tuesday. “The information gap in agriculture affects the...
Bringing Coconut Farmers into the 21st Century through Mobile Agriculture
13/02/2017
Can technology help family famers in the developing world? The story of Coconut farmers in the Philippines does offer answers to this question. Philippines has more than 3.5 million coconut farmers and most of them are communal farmers. Most abject poverty in the world is concentrated in farming...