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07/ 12

2022

07/12/2022

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: 14 December 2022

Time: 14:00-16:00: Presentation of the new RuralInvest· 

07/12/2022
Register here 16 December Friday| 13:00-15:00 CET 20:00-22:00 Beijing Time The Global AgriInno Challenge 2022, co-organized by FAO and Zhejiang University, encourages youth and women to harness innovation, entrepreneurship, and technologies to address challenges related to the agrifood...
06/12/2022
Digital Agriculture Bootcamp 2022 ( 1 st -7 th December 2022, online) Link: https://fao.zoom.us/j/98513946618 Meeting ID: 985 1394 6618 | Passcode: Bootcamp22 Since November 2021, FAO and Zhejiang University (ZJU), through a letter of agreement, have supported the Digital Agriculture Bootcamp event...

09/ 12

2022

09/12/2022

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. 

01/12/2022
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...

17/ 11

2022

China 17/11/2022

The Global AgriInno Challenge 2022, co-organized by FAO and Zhejiang University as part of the MoU between these two entities; GAC is in its third edition after the great success in 2020 and 2021.  

25/10/2022
Digital on the spotlight The week 17-21 October 2022 was a crucial week for FAO. In that week, FAO (in conjunction with partners) organized three major forums which encouraged a diversity of perspectives and facilitated the rationalization and inclusiveness of debate on our agrifood systems. Besides...
A drone operator flies a drone at a farm at Tengeru, near the city of Arusha
16/10/2022
The FMM DAIH hold a planning workshop in Adama, Ethiopia 23 September 2022. Stakeholders in Ethiopia met to discuss the digital agriculture maturity in the country, and affirmed to work together to improve innovation and digital transformation of the agricultural sector. The affirmation was resolved...
14/10/2022
Global AgriInno Challenge 2022 Open Call: Connecting Youth-Led Innovation to the Agri-food Sector Duration of the Call: 14 October – 20 November 2022 Global AgriInno Challenge 2022 is officially o pen for recruitment ! Global AgriInno Challenge, a worldwide competition for youth agripreneurs and...
A drone operator flies a drone at a farm at Tengeru, near the city of Arusha
12/10/2022
Background Youth, across Europe and Central Asia, is leaving the rural areas and thus the agricultural sector. Challenges related to access to knowledge, markets, natural- and financial resources force the younger generation to leave the rural areas to the more urbanized parts of their countries...