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Focus on women and ICTs in Agriculture
20/03/2019
In most developing countries due to rural-urban migration, rural communities are losing young people and agriculture is robbed of the needed workforce. The result has been that many smallholder farms have more women and girls remaining on the farms providing bulk of the labour force. Advances in...
WSIS FORUM 2019: FAO Director-General Video Message
20/03/2019
As the WSIS Forum 2019, a multistakeholder platform facilitating the implementation of the WSIS Action Lines for advancing Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the FAO Director-General Mr. José Graziano da Silva has delivered a video message to International Telecommunications Union (ITU) and...
‘WorldBank Group to support Africa’s digital transformation’
20/03/2019
In an opinion piece on CNN Business, the WorldBank Group CEO and interim presidents noted that automation and artificial intelligence (and other disruptive technologies) could revolutionize the industrialized world, and with great potential to the developing world. O n her tweeter account, Ms...11/ 03
2019
22/ 03
2019
Commission on the Status of Women #CSW63
New York, United States of America 11/03/2019 – 22/03/2019
The sixty-third session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW63) will take place at the United Nations Headquarters in New York from 11 to 22 March 2019.
Representatives of Member States, UN entities, and ECOSOC-accredited non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from all regions of the world are expected to attend the session.
Priority theme: Social protection systems, access to public services and sustainable infrastructure for gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls;
ICT Update 90 focuses on Women and Digitalization in Agriculture
12/03/2019
In sub-Saharan Africa and indeed in most of the developing world, women form a greater part of the agricultural labour force. There is potential of information and communications technologies (ICTs) to include women fully in the agricultural systems. The recent ICT Update 90 focuses on Women and...
International Award 2019: Innovative ideas & technologies in Agribusiness
06/03/2019
The International Award “ Innovative Ideas and Technologies in Agribusiness” is organized by UNIDO ITPO Italy in collaboration with the Future Food Institute. The international contest is aimed at identifying worldwide the most innovative ideas in the foodtech & agtech sectors from startups, think...
How FAO RuralInvest Software Improves Agriculture Investments
05/03/2019
By Günther Feiler, Capacity Development Officer, FAO Rome, and Thomas Muenzel, Investment Support Officer, FAO Bangkok ( The article was originally published by the ICTworks and we reproduce for our community. All rights acknowledged) Experience has shown that substantial public investments in...27/ 06
2019
29/ 06
2019
2019 EFITA-HAICTA-WCCA Congress "Digitizing Agriculture"
Rhodes, Greece 27/06/2019 – 29/06/2019
EFITA or European Federation for Information Technology in Agriculture, Food and the Environment is biennial conference that facilitates participants from over 25 countries focusing on knowledge sharing and thinking on the future of ICT technologies within the agri-food and bio-resource sectors.
The 2019 edition focuses on Digitizing Agriculture and will have the following major themes,
Focus on the Blockchain for Agriculture
26/02/2019
There is a growing acceptance of blockchain use in food and agriculture. This comes as part of the growth of ICTs in the last decade and technology has promised to open many opportunities to overcome some of the challenges faced in agriculture. For example, technology can allow more inclusion...