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New digital technologies boost beekeeping for smallholder farmers and family beekeepers
19/05/2025
Beekeeping, or apiculture, is not just a hobby or a side job – it is a vital agricultural activity and essential for food security and biodiversity. Beekeepers, often smallholder or family farmers, play a crucial role in sustaining ecosystems through pollination and ensuring the health of countless...
Bridging Innovation and Policy: FAO’s Nikola Trendov Delivers Digital Agriculture Insights at ITCILO Master’s Programme
08/05/2025
The integration of digital technologies into agriculture is reshaping the way food is produced, processed, and distributed. As part of the International Training Centre of the ILO (ITCILO) Master’s Programme in Technology and Public Policy, Nikola Trendov, Digital Agriculture Specialist at FAO...
Global AgriInno Challenge 2025 Launches to Empower Youth Innovation in Digital Agriculture
06/05/2025
FAO and Zhejiang University invite youth-led startups to harness emerging technologies and Digital Public Infrastructure for climate-smart, inclusive agrifood systems Rome/Hangzhou, 30 April 2025 – The Global AgriInno Challenge 2025 is now open for applications! Organized by the Food and Agriculture...
Planting the Future: Reflections on FAO’s First Global Dialogue on AI in Agriculture
01/05/2025
Reflections from FAO’s first-ever global dialogue on the future of AI in agrifood systems From 28 to 30 April 2025, the Office of Innovation at FAO convened its first-ever Digital Agriculture and AI Innovation Dialogue, bringing together public institutions, private innovators, researchers, producer...
AgriTech Observatory recognized as Digital Public Good and surpassing 500 initiatives
28/04/2025
24/04/2025, Budapest The AgriTech Observatory, an initiative of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) for countries in Europe and Central Asia, has been officially recognized as a Digital Public Good (DPG) by the Digital Public Goods Alliance—a multi-stakeholder...06/ 05
2025
Low Code No Code | Empower Yourself to Build Solutions
06/05/2025
OICT and the UN 2.0 Data and Digital Communities invite you to this this training to introduce you to Low-Code/No-Code development using PowerApps and Power Automate, enabling you to build practical solutions—no programming expertise required!
✅ Understand the fundamentals of Low-Code/No-Code development
✅ Discover the advantages of the approach and why it’s changing solution-building
✅ Get familiar with key tools and real-world use cases
✅ Hands-on: Build your own Low-Code app using PowerApps & Power Automate
22/ 04
2025
Designing a Knowledge Management System in SharePoint | April 22nd
22/04/2025
Learn how to design and implement a structured system for storing and retrieving knowledge documents efficiently.
This course will equip you with the skills to build a knowledge repository tailored to your needs.
✅ Understand the Knowledge Cycle and Knowledge Maturity Model
✅ Master metadata and taxonomy concepts to improve document organization
✅ Build and configure your Knowledge Base library in SharePoint
✅ Explore advanced search techniques to retrieve records efficiently
Drone technology enhances rice farming in Viet Nam
07/04/2025
Agriculture remains a vital pillar of Viet Nam’s economy, contributing to approximately 14 percent of the country's gross domestic product (GDP) and employing nearly 40 percent of the workforce. To drive sustainability and efficiency in rice production, the Government of Viet Nam, with support from...
Young Innovators from the Global South Shine at AI for Good Innovation Factory Pitching Event
27/03/2025
Geneva, 25 March 2025 – A wave of youth-led innovation swept the virtual stage of the AI for Good Innovation Factory, where young entrepreneurs from the Global South presented cutting-edge AI-powered solutions to reshape the future of agrifood systems. The session, co-hosted by the International...