Shaping the Future of Agriculture: FAO at AI for Good Summit 2025
04/07/2025
In a world where artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly redefining the boundaries of what's possible, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is actively ensuring that AI innovation serves one of the most essential of all human needs: food security and sustainable...
A Policy Vision for Earth Observation: Food, Water, Energy, Democracy, Peace Empowered Through Space - European Space Policy Institute
04/07/2025
The Policy Vision for Earth Observation was officially published on Wednesday 25 June, and launched at the Living Planet Symposium (LPS) in Vienna by the European Space Policy Institute (ESPI) Director Hermann Ludwig Moeller. This Vision initiates a dialogue to maximise the policy impact of Earth...
The UN 2.0 Week side event on UN Careers in Data & Digital
27/06/2025
On the 11th of June, the UN 2.0 week side event on UN Careers in Data & Digital, part of our OneUN Talent Outreach Group across FAO, UNEP, WFP, UNV and UN Secretariat, highlighted the rich variety of roles and careers for the next generation of thinkers, doers and changemakers embracing data...The Office of Innovation in FAO and University of Helsinki’s Viikki Food Design Factory (VFDF) are teaming up to launch the Data for Farm Value Global Challenge, a global call for startups using farm-level data to drive sustainable, inclusive, and scalable agrifood solutions.
This initiative will:
Invitation to Participate: Foresight Survey on Women Empowerment in Agrifood Innovation
20/06/2025
The Office of Innovation of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has launched two complementary foresight surveys to inform a forthcoming report on gender-transformative innovations and women's empowerment in agrifood innovation ecosystems. These surveys are part of our...
UN Virtual Worlds Day 2025: Global call-to-action to accelerate social progress through AI-powered virtual worlds
19/06/2025
UN entities joined forces during the 2nd UN Virtual Worlds Day to urge governments, civil society, academia, and the private sector from around the world to harness AI-powered virtual worlds to drive development that works for all Twelve priorities for a digital future for all Held under the...
FAO, Zhejiang University and Pinduoduo hold Global Digital Agriculture Innovation Bootcamp for Young agrientreprenuers in China
12/06/2025
DALI, China — A group of young agripreneurs from eight countries have completed a seven-days’ journey of bootcamp on 31 May 2025. Started in Hangzhou, ended in Dali, the Digital Agriculture Innovation Bootcamp is part of a global effort to equip the next generation of agrifood leaders with the...
Planting the Future: Reflections on FAO’s First Global Dialogue on AI in Agriculture
01/05/2025
Reflections from FAO’s first-ever global dialogue on the future of AI in agrifood systems From 28 to 30 April 2025, the Office of Innovation at FAO convened its first-ever Digital Agriculture and AI Innovation Dialogue, bringing together public institutions, private innovators, researchers, producer...
Initial exchanges in the e-conversation on "Digitalization and agroecology: a challenging marriage?" - Join us!
19/07/2023
The e-agriculture team kindly agreed to let us re-post 2- or 3-day threads from the e-conversation that we are conducting on "Digitalization and agroecology: a challenging marriage?". This e-conversation is hosted by the Digital Agri Hub in partnership with the Global Forum on Agricultural Research...The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the International Telecommunication Union recently launched a new publication, Status of Digital Agriculture in 47 Sub-Saharan Africa
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