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Harvesting startup is hiring a full time remote sensing scientist
27/09/2017
Harvesting is a Silicon Valley based growing startup driving financial inclusion for farmers. Harvesting uses cutting edge remote sensing & machine learning based approach to help large financial institutions lend small farm holders. Harvesting is now looking for a full time remote sensing scientist...
Satellite Monitoring: An Innovative Solution for Water Management
26/09/2017
In Kenya, in the region of Turkana County, a severe drought is threatening people's livelihoods and livestock. Agricultural production is close to none as the rainy season going from March to June remained a vain hope. The nearest borehole is sometimes walking days away and not all of the population...
September 2017: AGRIS has exceeded the threshold of 9 million records!
26/09/2017
This announcement is as originally announced on AIMS AGRIS team at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) takes this opportunity to inform all interested parties that in September 2017 AGRIS has exceeded the threshold of 9 million records ! (9,025,192 records). AGRIS team...
Stories from the field: Going to scale with ICTs for agriculture
26/09/2017
ICTs in agriculture have a huge potential: they can increase agricultural yields or help farmers get a fairer price for their produce. Farmers now have access to farm mapping, weather data, marketing tools, financial credit, advice from extension workers, and social networks thanks to SMS...
Spore Magazine issue no. 186: Big data and climate insurance: Redusing risks and maximizing revenues
25/09/2017
The Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) has recently published the issue Number 186 of Spore magazine, which focuses on Big data and climate insurance: Redusing risks and maximizing revenues. Spore Magazine aims to give the reader a global perspective on agribusiness and...22/ 11
2017
Turning Data into Decisions in AgriFood
London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 22/11/2017
How to enable smallholder farmers to use ICTs?
25/09/2017
In this blog post, Ajit Maru describes all the requirements an ICT product has to have to be usable for the farmer: the hardware, the software, connectivity, skills, content, security and safety in use, privacy and a profitable and productive environment. But, he points out, some problems can rise...09/ 10
2017
World Telecommunication Development Conference (WTDC-17)
Buenos Aires, Argentina 09/10/2017
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World Telecommunication Development Conference (WTDC-17) to take place in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from 9 to 20 October 2017
22/09/2017
The World Telecommunication Development Conference (WTDC-17) will be convened in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from 9 to 20 October 2017. The conference is convened to consider topics, projects and programmes relevant to telecommunication development. The theme of WTDC-17 is "ICT for Sustainable...