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FAO Ag-Lab innovation incubation event launched in Beijing
12/07/2018
Innovation lab gives youth the chance to unlock and accelerate social and economic potential of traditional agriculture sector This article was initially published by FAO China, and is reproduced for the e-Agriculture CoP 11/07/2018. New initiatives can empower the traditional agricultural sector...
Inviting Feedback to the 'Humanitarian UAV Update Code of Conduct'
11/07/2018
The Humanitarian UAV Network is inviting interested persons, entities and organizations within the International Humanitarian field to comment and contribute to the next version of the Humanitarian UAV/Drone Code of Conduct and Guidelines by the 1st of October 2018. Background to the call In May...
How robotics and Artificial Intelligence will shape access to finance for Smallholder farmers in East Africa?
11/07/2018
An audio-visual podcast by MicroSave provides an insight into how Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML) and drone technology have a potential to improve access to finance for smallholder farmers in East Africa. MicroSave is an international financial inclusion consulting firm operating...
Ugandan scientists to digitise agriculture chain with new apps
11/07/2018
The Ugandan National Agricultural Research Organization (NARO) has launched 3 mobile apps to facilitate access to information on agricultural research. The East African reports that Boniface Akuku, director for ICT at the Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization, helped Uganda develop...
Pitch AgriHack 2018 finalists announced
10/07/2018
The Technical Centre for Agriculture and Rural Cooperation (CTA) has announced the 26 finalists for the Pitch AgriHack 2018, where the 53% of the finalists are companies led by women founders or co-founders. The Pitch AgriHack was launched by CTA with the support of the African Development Bank...09/ 07
2018
ITU Workshop on Multimedia Applications and the Future of Digital Society
Ljubljana, Slovenia 09/07/2018
The International Telecommunication Union is organizing the ITU Workshop on "Multimedia applications and the future of digital society", which will take place on 9 July 2018 at the Ljubljana Exhibition and Convention Centre, Dunajska cesta 18, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Moving Europe towards full precision agriculture
06/07/2018
Reflections on the ICT-AGRI 2: ICTs and robotics for sustainable agriculture The use of new technologies in Europe has grown in the last decade, and this also true within agriculture. In fact, there is renewed expectation towards digitizing agriculture and food value chains. Can robotics adoption in...05/ 07
2018
06/ 07
2018
FAO Investment Days
Rome, Italy 05/07/2018 – 06/07/2018
FAO Investment Centre is hosting its ninth internal knowledge-sharing event, Investment Days 2018 on the 4th and 5th of July at FAO headquarters in Rome. The two-day event will focus on the following sub-themes: (i) Innovative finance in food and agriculture, and (ii) Digital agriculture. See the programme here
Digital innovations designed to tackle the Fall Armyworm
04/07/2018
The finalists of the Fall Armyworm Tech Prize In the beginning of the year we posed the question, Can ICTs be used to fight pest’s outbreaks? Such as the Fall Armyworm? At that time the two initiatives by Farm Radio Trust and CABIs Pest Risk Information Service) PRISE stood out. Recently, we just...25/ 09
2018
27/ 09
2018
Scale-up Conference
West Lafayette, United States of America 25/09/2018 – 27/09/2018
A conference focusing on effective approaches to scaling up agricultural technologies and innovations in the developing world.