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The Third African Union - European Union Agriculture Ministerial Conference
21/06/2019
FAO welcomes the 3rd AU-EU Agriculture Ministerial Conference in FAO HQ, Rome on the 21st of June 2019. The conference is co-hosted by the African Union Commission and the European Commission. The AU Commissioner for Agriculture and rural economy, Ms Josefa Sacko and her counterpart the EU...
Pig farmers in Papua New Guinea capitalize on blockchain technology
18/06/2019
FAO develops livestock-tracking system to help pig farmers expand their markets In Papua New Guinea, no celebration is complete without a pig roast. As one of the few mammals living on the island, pigs play an important role in the country’s culture and economy. Traditionally, smallholder farmers...
The FAO Digital Agriculture Transformation Seminar ends
14/06/2019
The curtain came down for the FAO Digital Agriculture Transformation Seminar on the 13th of June at FAO headquarters. The seminar was attended by several hundred participants and included government ministers, representatives of civil society and the private sector, non-governmental organizations...
AFDB launches Africa Digital Financial Inclusion Facility (ADFI)
13/06/2019
The African Development Bank and its partners on the 13th of June, 2019 launched the Africa Digital Financial Inclusion Facility (ADFI), designed to aid safety and expansion of digital financial transactions in Africa. The Fund, launched at the Bank’s Annual Meetings in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, is...11/ 06
2019
AGRI Innovation Summit 2019
Paris, France 11/06/2019
Farmers, researchers, advisors, enterprises, associations, decision-makers ... between 300 and 400 participants are expected in Normandy on 25 and 26 June 2019 for the second Agri Innovation Summit 2019 (AIS 2019). The event is dedicated to the contribution of the European Innovation Partnership on Agricultural Productivity & Sustainability (EIP-AGRI) for the transition to agroecology.
A spotlight on the FAO Digital Services Portfolio
11/06/2019
The FAO Digital Services Portfolio is a project that was started in November 2016 in Rulindo, Rwanda and Tambacounda, Senegal.The project included the development and distribution of 4 mobile applications to smallholder farmers. This project comes as a realisation that digital services are changing...
The Age of Digital Independence report launched by the UN Secretary-General
11/06/2019
Not so long ago the UN Secretary General instituted The High-level Panel on Digital Cooperation in July 2018 to identify good examples and propose modalities for working cooperatively across sectors, disciplines and borders to address challenges in the digital age. On the 10th of June 2019, the...12/ 06
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13/ 06
2019
Digital Agriculture Transformation Seminar : Challenges to be addressed
Rome, Italy 12/06/2019 – 13/06/2019
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and partners will hold the Digital Agriculture Transformation Seminar: The challenges to be addressed. The seminar will be held in Rome, Italy on the 12th and 13th of June, 2019.
FAO at the International Innovations Forum in the Agrarian Sector (Agrotech- 2019)
04/06/2019
The two-day International forum “Agroteh-2019 – Steps beyond the horizon,” was organized by the National Research University Higher School of Economics together with FAO and the Russian Ministry of Agriculture in Moscow, and it focused on innovation as the central driving force to transform food...