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News and Events

The e-Agriculture is a platform of choice for many as they receive news related to ICTs for agriculture. Furthermore, daily around the world a number of events related to ICTs for agriculture are taking place. These may be trainings, meetings, workshops related to the use and upscale of technologies in agriculture. 

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  • Committee on Commodity Problems (CCP) Side Event on: “Digitalization in Food and Agricultural Markets and Trade”

    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...
  • FAO launches an online public consultation: Advancing end-to-end Seafood traceability (9 March- 12 April 2021)

    FAO has launched an online public consultation in order to collect comments and views on a draft guidance document on seafood traceability. The guidance analyses and documents the interrelation of traceability along the value chain based on country-specific traceability mechanisms that are often essential for verifying and corroborating submitted data. It focuses on Key Data Elements (KDEs) and Critical Tracking Events (CTEs) as salient collection points of traceability systems. In the case of capture fisheries, Key Data Elements (KDEs) and Critical Tracking Events (CTEs) are based on the ‘...
  • Building up strenghtened global access to information and knowledge: the Hand-in-Hand Geospatial Platform is nominated at the WSIS Prize Contest 2021

    2021 has started as the year of efficiencies and effectivness. Digitalization, modernization and agility are now the core values where organizations and businesses all over the globe are focusing their efforts to better adapt, respond and act to the evolving needs of a world more fast paced than ever. ´Innovation and investment are the key to transformation´ says FAO Director-General Qu Dongyu. FAO´s mandate includes indeed supporting and assisting the countries in their transformation towards more efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable agri-food systems for better production, better...
  • EU Funded Opportunity to support wood waste innovators expand into Canadian markets [ Apply before 21 March]

    The European Union are seeking to accelerate the presence of European SMEs in Canada through the Low Carbon Business Action and Circular Economy platform. We would like to highlight most relevant challenge for the E-Agriculture network: - FPInnovations , a leader in the development of high-quality lignin and sugar streams from sustainably harvested forest-sourced biomass, is seeking innovative ways to further convert those streams into high value-added bioproducts. Link to full description can be found here , link to apply to challenge can be found here . If selected as one of the 3...
  • Digital Agriculture: New Frontiers for the Food System

    Theme: Digital Agriculture: New Frontiers for the Food System Date : 17 March 2021 Time : 15:00 CET/10:00 EST To attend: Visit page for details About the Event Rising food insecurity and malnutrition, combined with high food loss and waste, agricultural pollution and persistent poverty, show that...
  • Technical Webinar on Farm to Fork under the European Green Deal

    In the run-up to the 2021 EU-FAO Strategic Dialogue, The European Union and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations have the honour to invite you to a technical webinar on: Farm to Fork under the European Green Deal About the webinar The technical webinar will present the EU’s...
  • Women Leadership in AgTech: Transforming the Agriculture and Food Sector

    The World Bank Group Invites interested individuals to the webinar " Women Leadership in AgTech:Transforming the Agriculture and Food Sector " to be held on Thursday, February 25, 2021 To attend, complete this registration form Webinar Details Chair: William Sonneborn, Senior Director IFC, The...
  • Special issue on Internet of Everything

    The​​​​me The Internet of Everything (IoE) is the interconnection of people, processes, data, and things. It was conceptualized by CISCO as the natural evolution of the Internet of Things (IoT), in the aim of including the entire realm of information sources and destinations in one paradigm.Although the IoE concept has attracted the increasing attention of the scientific community since its introduction, the research results achieved so far have only just scratched the surface leaving the very fundamental questions regarding the IoE unanswered. In fact, the IoE has characteristics in terms of...
  • Partnerships - ICT4D Conference

    Register for the ICT4D Conference and hear from 40+ speakers including : Sean Callahan, President & CEO, Catholic Relief Services Dr. Jemilah Mahmood, Special Advisor to the Prime Minister of Malaysia on Public Health, previously Under-Secretary General of Partnerships, IFRC Natasha Sunderji,...