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A drone operator flies a drone at a farm at Tengeru, near the city of Arusha
13/07/2017
AMAN (Avian-Diseases Monitoring and Awareness Network) mobile app and web platform has been developed by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) as a communication tool for early warning, reporting, monitoring and awareness services for small poultry farmers in Egypt (a country...
A drone operator flies a drone at a farm at Tengeru, near the city of Arusha
13/07/2017
As promoted on AIMS We are pleased to announce three upcoming webinars in English, French and Spanish about developing search strategie for researchers. We will demonstrate how a well formulated search strategy can facilitate literature search on the AGORA platform via Summon and on other platforms...
A drone operator flies a drone at a farm at Tengeru, near the city of Arusha
12/07/2017
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in partnership with the Global Open Data on Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN) are inviting interested individuals to participate in this forum discussion on ' Agriculture Open Data Package' to be held on the e-Agriculture Platform...
A drone operator flies a drone at a farm at Tengeru, near the city of Arusha
11/07/2017
The FAO in Emergencies app allows you to follow the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations top news and recent highlights covering response to disasters, emergencies and food security crises all over the world. This new tool will allow you to keep up with FAO’s continued efforts to...
A drone operator flies a drone at a farm at Tengeru, near the city of Arusha
10/07/2017
Realizing the potential of ICTs in developing countries' agriculture, the Agriculture and Rural Development Department (ARD) of the World Bank in collaboration with InfoDev (part of the World Bank Group) embarked in an effort to explore and capture the expanding knowledge and use of ICT tools in...
A drone operator flies a drone at a farm at Tengeru, near the city of Arusha
07/07/2017
Pitch AgriHack West Africa 2017 is a competition for start-ups and entrepreneurs in the e-agriculture sector. The objective is to help develop these business and at the same time contribute to accelerate the adoption of technology services in the agricultural sector. This edition of the prize is...
A drone operator flies a drone at a farm at Tengeru, near the city of Arusha
07/07/2017
The new ICT Update, Issue 85 is now available online. The issue is entitled "Applications for Agricultue" reporting CTA's work in covering the growth and proliferation of digital and mobile phone technologies for agriculture. CTA is now moving forward by developing the Apps4Ag database - which is...
A drone operator flies a drone at a farm at Tengeru, near the city of Arusha
05/07/2017
Millions of underemployed skilled farmers and millions of hectares of underused arable land exhist all over the world, especially in developing countries. At the same time, the demand for high-quality organic food increases daily. According to FAO, our food production will have to increase...
A drone operator flies a drone at a farm at Tengeru, near the city of Arusha
05/07/2017
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) recently held on the 27th of June a seminar entitled, " Towards Inclusive Rural Communication Services: Contributing to Poverty Reduction and the SDGs". This seminar is timely in that FAO recently aligned its strategic objectives with...