The FMM DAIH hold a planning workshop in Adama, Ethiopia 23 September 2022 . Stakeholders in Ethiopia met to discuss the digital agriculture maturity in the country, and affirmed to work together to improve innovation and digital transformation of the agricultural sector. The affirmation was resolved at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)’s FMM workshop on Business Model, Partners Responsibility Mapping and Finalization of Work Plan to Establish the Digital Agriculture and Innovation Hubs (DAIH) held on the 22 and 23 September 2022 in Adama, Ethiopia. In his opening remarks, the State...
Global AgriInno Challenge 2022 Open Call: Connecting Youth-Led Innovation to the Agri-food Sector Duration of the Call: 14 October – 20 November 2022 Global AgriInno Challenge 2022 is officially o pen for recruitment ! Global AgriInno Challenge, a worldwide competition for youth agripreneurs and innovators, showcases and promotes smart digital innovative talent. With the last two sessions successfully held in 2020 and 2021, Global AgriInno Challenge 2022 will continue to provide startups an alive platform to exchange experience, enhance knowledge and offer the opportunity to join the huge...
Background Youth, across Europe and Central Asia, is leaving the rural areas and thus the agricultural sector. Challenges related to access to knowledge, markets, natural- and financial resources force the younger generation to leave the rural areas to the more urbanized parts of their countries, where there’s a higher chance to find better working opportunities. This not only means that the rural areas are facing the consequences of the in-country migration, but the agricultural sector remains in the hand of the older generation, who often prefer and follow traditional practices and have a...
A common space for open, inclusive discussion for sharing robust science and evidence-based options for more efficient, inclusive, resilient, and sustainable agrifood systems REGISTER 14th October, Friday 12:00-13:30 (Rome) | 18:00-19:30 (Beijing) The event will focus on answering two questions by drawing on experience from two experts from ZJU and also a group of panel speakers from International Organizations such as World Bank, African Development Bank and Cornell University. ● How to support the development of digitalization, innovation and agripreneurship in agri-food systems?● How to...
MIKTA PANEL “Digital Solutions for Sustainable Agriculture” 13 October 2022, 14.00 hours - Virtual It has been nine years since the Foreign Ministers of Mexico, Indonesia, Republic of Korea, Türkiye and Australia gathered in New York in September 2013 as five democracies that benefit from open economies with robust growth rates and a significant level of economic power. Coming from diverse cultures and regions, which they are strongly linked to, MIKTA Foreign Ministers declared their will and capability to contribute to protecting public goods and strengthening global governance. In the face...
It has been nine years since the Foreign Ministers of Mexico, Indonesia, Republic of Korea, Türkiye and Australia gathered in New York in September 2013 as five democracies that benefit from open economies with robust growth rates and a significant level of economic power. Coming from diverse...
October 7th, 2022 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM CET Register here This event is a one-time event organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and Wageningen UR (The Netherlands) to discuss the latest developments on blockchain for sustainable forest management. It is a free event...
The Food and Agriculture Organization is inviting all agrifood businesses and startups from the Pacific, Maldives and Timor-Leste to apply for the Agrifood accelerator 2022. All applications must be written in English and submitted by 15 October 2022 at 11:59pm (GMT+13). Join us in Apia, Samoa for the major regional accelerator of 2022! The Agrifood accelerator 2022 is an initiative by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Subregional Office for the Pacific Islands aiming to support and scale up solutions of existing agrifood startups, businesses, and social...
World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Prizes 2023 - Call for Submissions WSIS has announced the opening of the WSIS Prizes 2023 and they are encouraging all the stakeholders to SUBMIT their project descriptions to the WSIS Prizes contest from now before the 7th of December 2022. The e-Agriculture team encourages eligible projects in agriculture to submit their projects for this prestigious award. The contest is open to all stakeholders entities representing governments, private sector, international and regional institutions, civil society and academia. Each entity is allowed to...
Harnessing digital technologies towards the SDGs Digital technologies are proving to be one of the key accelerators of sustainable development and are having a deep transformational effect on our economies and societies, including agriculture and food systems in general. In times of economic turndowns, they definitely hold the potential to unlock employment opportunities, bridge the rural divide and empower youth and women to access information, technology and markets, among many other opportunities that they trigger worldwide. As their critical role has now been clearly recognized, FAO...