On 14 May, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) hosted a thought-provoking webinar exploring the potential role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in shaping the future of agrifood systems governance. For this event, titled “‘AI in Charge’ of policy making and agrifood systems governance: Utopia, Exodus, or an Opportunity?”, FAO has partnered with Harvard's HUPFI programme to mentor a team tackling AI in agrifood systems and its associated policy and governance challenges. The webinar highlighted the growing importance of AI in the agricultural domain, with the...
Bringing together key players in the Digital Agriculture ecosystem for collaborative and coordinated roadmap implementation. Date :Tuesday March 28th, 2023 Streaming here Introduction The Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Institute (ATI) and the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) of Ethiopia are planning to start the implementation of the national Digital Agriculture and Advisory Service (DAEAS) Roadmap. The DAEAS roadmap aims to align efforts among several stakeholders within Ethiopia to benefit farmers. The National Forum will bring together key stakeholders from the public, private, and...
The Flexible Voluntary Contribution (FVC) Sub-programme on the Global Network Digital Agriculture Innovation Hubs in Ethiopia would like to invite interested individuals for the fist webinar entitled, "Enabling Environment for Digital Agriculture and Innovation in Ethiopia " . This webinar is part of the Innovate Ethiopian Agriculture Webinar Series . Event Details Title : Enabling Environment for Digital Agriculture and Innovation in Ethiopia Date : 30th of March 2023 Time : From 3:00 p.m to 5:00 p.m GMT+3 Register : CLICK HERE Event Abstract Ethiopia is a country of incredible diversity and...
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Investment Centre is delighted to invite you to attend the launch event for the new RuralInvest – a free toolkit to build bankable, sustainable agribusiness proposals, developed by FAO division of Digitalization and Informatics. Date...
Digital Agriculture Forum 2022 9 December | 9:00 -11:00 CET Register Now The Digital Agriculture Forum (DAF) 2022 will take place in virtual mode via Zoom on 9 December 2022, Friday . The DAF 2022, themed “Enabling Digital Transformation in Agriculture with Emerging Technologies”, is the third edition of the annual joint event co-organized by FAO and Zhejiang University to host policy and technical discussions and share knowledge and good practices in the area of digital agriculture as well as digital innovation. Since 2019, the DAF has attracted over 600 participants from more than 80...
The Data-Driven and Digital Team is excited to launch a new, monthly FoodTech Innovation Webinar Series! To register click here About the webinar FoodTech is the intersection of agriculture, food, and technology along the value-chain from harvest, storage, processing to distribution and retail...
WFF Masterclass: “Blockchain 101” Monday, 04 Oct. 2021, 14:00-15:00 (CEST) Register here The United Nations is taking now forward the strategic discussion on blockchain positioning, development, and implementation to show its relevance; and in the context of the World Food Forum (WFF), its impact...
09/08/2021 China. The Smart Agriculture Competition 2021 was launched today to facilitate agricultural modernization. The competition is led by the Chinese e-commerce company Pinduoduo, China Agricultural University and Zhejiang University and held under the technical guidance of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations and Wageningen University & Research. The competition this year will apply nutrition science, precision farming and other interdisciplinary expertise to cultivate tomatoes. The winners will be judged on the yield and nutritional value of the...
During the Committee on Commodity Problems (CCP) Side Event was held on Wednesday the 11th of March 2021. The event was webcast on FAO platform. Background to the event Digitalization is transforming economies and societies and already profoundly impacts foodand agriculture, which is facing significant challenges. Digital technologies can help increaseproductivity and generate economic, social and environmental benefits, accelerating progresstowards achieving the SDGs.Digital technologies can make agricultural and food markets more efficient and more inclusive. Globally, since the end of the...
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) invite you to participate in the ‘"e- Consultation on digital agriculture investments and digital transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa. (instructions found below) The e-Consultation will take place on the e-Agriculture platform from the 27th of October 2020 to the 9th of November 2020. Background to the e-consultation In an era of digital inclusion, Africa stands to gain exponentially from the adoption of digital technologies towards the realization of SDGs. In the...
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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Investment Centre is delighted to invite you to attend the launch event for the new RuralInvest – a free toolkit to build bankable, sustainable agribusiness proposals, developed by FAO division of Digitalization and Informatics. Date...
The Data-Driven and Digital Team is excited to launch a new, monthly FoodTech Innovation Webinar Series! To register click here About the webinar FoodTech is the intersection of agriculture, food, and technology along the value-chain from harvest, storage, processing to distribution and retail...
WFF Masterclass: “Blockchain 101” Monday, 04 Oct. 2021, 14:00-15:00 (CEST) Register here The United Nations is taking now forward the strategic discussion on blockchain positioning, development, and implementation to show its relevance; and in the context of the World Food Forum (WFF), its impact...
