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SMS Gateway: Improving animal health through Information and Communication Technologies. Information factsheet
05/04/2017
For poultry farmers in Bangladesh, avian influenza can be a devastating problem. The avian influenza, called H5N1 HPAI, is highly pathogenic and spreads very fast. Once the flu is spread out, birds can die in 5 to 10 minutes from it and the farmer sees its poultry farm devastated. This information...
Forum Closure: The role of ICTs in SCPI of horticulture crop based systems
05/04/2017
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...
Ecosia search engine: Plant trees while you search the web
04/04/2017
Ecosia is a search engine that plants trees each time you search for something. The Bing-powered search engine earns about half a Euro cent with each search and spends 28 cents to plant a tree. So to plant one tree Ecosia only needs about 56 searches. This way, the Berlin-based search engine has...
Remote sensing: monitoring the Cash for Work Programme. Information factsheet
03/04/2017
In order to enhance its capacity to observe large swathes of territory on a regular basis, as well as viewing otherwise inaccessible areas, SWALIM developed a remote monitoring system using remotely sensed data. Remote Sensing (RS) is the ability to capture and analyse information from the earth’s...
World Food Program teams up with WeRobotics to use drones in emergencies
03/04/2017
The World Food Program (WFP) is officially partnering with WeRobotics to develop coordination mechanisms to guide the safe and effective use of aerial robotics (UAVs) in response to humanitarian disasters. Assisting 80 million people in around 80 countries each year, the World Food Programme (WFP)...
End of the forum discussion: overview of case studies on the use of ICTs in SCPI
31/03/2017
The online discussion on, “The role of Information and communication technologies (ICTs) in the Sustainable Intensification of Crop Production (SCPI)” has officially ended. This has been a very fascinating discussion!. The sharp increase in the number of people joining the e-Agriculture platform...
e-Learning Africa 2017 : Learning in Context
30/03/2017
e-Learning Africa is the largest gathering (conference) of e-Learning and ICT supported education and training professionals in Africa and it enables participants to interact with multinational and cross-industry participants and partnerships. This e-Learning Africa 2017, is the 12th International...
Trees, forests and land use in drylands: The first global assessment. Conducted using Open Foris Collect Earth
30/03/2017
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Global Drylands Assessment is a thematic study based on the visual interpretation of satellite images in publicly available repositories (such as Google Earth Engine and Bing Maps) focusing on drylands. Results are reported at the...
Brief summary week 3 of the discussion on the role of ICTs in sustainable intensification of horticulture crop based systems
29/03/2017
During the third and last week of the online discussion forum, the members of the e-Agriculture community of practice discussed the specific constraints they have faced when using ICTs in horticulture. Based on the constraints, several recommendations for decision makers were brought forward...