E-Agriculture

Posts on the topic "Research, information and knowledge sharing"

Posts on the topic "Research, information and knowledge sharing"

  • Webinar e-Agriculture: Experience Capitalization and Good Practices

    The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) and the e-Agriculture Community of Practice (COP) are launching a call for good and promising practices on the use of ICTs for Agriculture .The call aims at...

  • Open Innovation Challenge: Implementing a Sustainable ‘African Youth (especially women) Entrepreneurship Online Portal’

    The Youth for Africa and SDGs YAS ! Portal is an online portal created by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to support the development and growth of youth entrepreneurship in Africa. The portal aims to help entrepreneurs by providing them advice on enterprise development, serve as an African hub for support services concerning African youth entrepreneurship and run challenges and award financing to youth to develop SDG related business ideas. UNDP is seeking advice and help through an online challenge to develop the online portal and keeping it sustainable. The challenge is open...

  • CTA Handbook: An ICT Agripreneurship Guide

    ICTs are pivotal for the future of agriculture. As they are finding an ever important space in most sectors of everyday life, agriculture should't be an exeption. ICTs can help in many ways producers and particularly smallholders in their livelihoods and development. In particular, ICTs can be an essential tool for young people aspiring to create their own agricultural business. As most of them have grown with these tools, they are more eager to use them in their worklife as well. This handbook published by the CTA is a guide designed for aspiring ICT entrepreneurs to instruct them with the...

  • Good and promising practices on the use of ICTs for Agriculture

    The e-Agriculture Community of Practice and its partners are constantly looking for good and promising practices on the use of ICTs for Agriculture to share lessons learned and recommendations from ICT for Agriculture innitiatives all around the world with the members of the Community of Practice and beyond. You can find the selected promising and good practices and related information on Experience Capitalization and the documentation of good and promising practices on this page of the e-Agriculture platform. e-Agriculture is always happy to receive your proposals for good and promising...

  • Join us! Share your experience on the use of ICTs for Agriculture with the e-Agriculture Community of Practice

    The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) and the e-Agriculture Community of Practice (COP) are launching a call for good and promising practices on the use of ICTs for Agriculture. Are you using ICTs to improve crop production, to monitor irrigation, or to control pests or diseases? Do you have lessons and recommendations that you would like to share with the community? Is your project innovative and worth upscaling? Let us know by participating in this call for good and promising practices. The call...

  • Forum Closure: The role of ICTs in SCPI of horticulture crop based systems

    The online discussion forum, entitled “ The Role of Information communication and Technologies (ICTs) in Sustainable Crop Production Intensification (SCPI) of horticulture crop based systems (mainly fruits, vegetables, roots and tubers) ” has officially ended. Participation The online discussion ran from the 6th to the 27th of March 2017. We received a total number of 75* contributions from participants from the following countries - Argentina, Australia, Bangladesh, Benin, Cambodia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Iran, Italy, Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, Netherlands,...