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10/ 05
2017
Free Webinar : How much data is enough in Precision Agriculture?
10/05/2017
| AIMS@Webinars series: How much data is enough in precision agricolture? |
Free Webinar : How much data is enough in Precision Agriculture?
02/05/2017
This announcement is reproduced as published on AIMS Dear Users AIMS team pleased to invite you to attend an upcoming webinar as part of the AIMS@Webinars series: HOW MUCH DATA IS ENOUGH IN PRECISION AGRICULTURE? DATE: Wednesday May 10th, 2017 TIME: at 15.00 CET / 16.00 CEST TARGET AUDIENCE: The...
Read the e-Agriculture No.2 Newsletter
28/04/2017
The e-Agriculture Team announces the 2nd Newsletter in 2017. This issue provides a quick update of the planned e-Agriculture Capacity Development activities. In the coming months the e-Agriculture team will develop several capacity development activities mearnt to increase the knowledge of ICTs to...
Precision Farming tool becomes free for European Farmers
28/04/2017
Yara ImageIT is a smartphone app designed to measure nitrogen uptake in a crop and generate a nitrogen recommendation based on photographs of the crop. ImageIT calculates nitrogen uptake based on leaf cover, leaf green color and estimated fraction of brown leaves. The app also generates an...
CTA Handbook: An ICT Agripreneurship Guide
28/04/2017
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...
International Girls in ICT Day : 27 April 2017
27/04/2017
Today marks the International Girls in ICT Day 2017, which is celebrated yearly on the 4th Thursday in April. The day is organised by ITU ; the UN Women has also issued a commemoration statement. What is Girls in ICT Day? This is an initiative that was backed by all International Telecommunication...08/ 05
2017
Youth, Agripreneurship and the Sustainable Development Goals Workshop
27/04/2017
By the year 2050, the world population is expected to grow to 9.7 billion: demand for food will grow dramatically. Following a present trend, 2/3 of this population will be concetrated in big cities. In sub-saharan Africa, the number of 15-24 year olds will dramatically increase. The challenge at...
Drone Technology is aiding data collection for crop breeding in Africa
25/04/2017
Preliminary results of a study shows that using drone technology could cut labour and costs spent in collecting data for maize breeding by at least 10%. The SciDevNEt reported that The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center ( CIMMYT) in Southern Africa has adopted the use of unmanned...