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06/ 04

2018

United States of America 06/04/2018

In developing countries, there is little smallholder farmers can do to protect themselves from shock. When faced with unexpected volatility, they often turn to negative coping mechanisms like selling assets, reducing meals, or pulling children out of school.

23/03/2018
©CTA Agriculture has been one of the fastest adopters of drones and they are being implemented in the various agricultural practices. One of our colleagues discovered a free publication entitled, “ Drones in Agriculture: The Ultimate Guide to Putting Your Drone to Work on the Farm” which we share...
A drone operator flies a drone at a farm at Tengeru, near the city of Arusha
23/03/2018
In January, l attended the webinar on Blockchain for Development, which was hosted by NETHOPE solutions. With the cryptocurrency buzz and the bitcoin bullish behavior l was curious to learn about this new technology and how it is applied in development and also how it can be assimilated within food...
23/03/2018
The Technical Centre for Agriculture and Rural Cooperation (CTA) has published a policy brief that emphasize the importance of weather data, and its derived services for agriculture and nutrition and challenges in dealing with weather data value chain. Farmers need access to accurate and localized...
A drone operator flies a drone at a farm at Tengeru, near the city of Arusha
22/03/2018
The International Telecommunication Union’s (ITU) headquarters was a busy location with more than 2,500 ICT experts from around the world arriving for the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). The theme of WSIS Forum 2018 is ‘Leveraging ICTs to Build Information and Knowledge Societies for...
A drone operator flies a drone at a farm at Tengeru, near the city of Arusha
22/03/2018
The AGRIS Team at the Food & Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), together with the Information Training & Outreach Center for Africa (ITOCA), are pleased to invite you to attend a FREE online Webinar on: AGRIS for Agricultural Information Data providers Details of the Webinar Title...
A drone operator flies a drone at a farm at Tengeru, near the city of Arusha
21/03/2018
The United Nations General Assembly proclaimed 21 March the International Day of Forests (IDF) in 2012. The Day celebrates and raises awareness of the importance of all types of forests. On each International Day of Forests, countries are encouraged to undertake local, national and international...
15/03/2018
Are you monitoring food security risk locally or regionally? Would localized food security information be a value to your organization? Are you concerned about where and when a population would come into significant food insecurity stress? If you answered "YES" to any of these questions, aWhere can...
A drone operator flies a drone at a farm at Tengeru, near the city of Arusha
14/03/2018
GFAR has just published the highlights of the farmer’s access to data symposium which was held in November 2017 in Centurion, South Africa. And as an outcome, a white paper on ‘ Digital and data-driven agriculture – enhancing use of data by smallholders’ will soon be co-published by GFAR, GODAN and...
A drone operator flies a drone at a farm at Tengeru, near the city of Arusha
12/03/2018
The e-Agriculture monthly newsletter for March has been published to subscribed members. This months' newsletter focuses on Women, Girls and ICT, as explained in the lead article that the month of March has many activities that focus on ICTs and Women. Coincidentally, the in March a new publication...