open data

Posts on the Topic "open data"

29/07/2019
In continuation of the efforts to promote sustainable ICTs for agriculture and to share knowledge on emerging technologies that holds great promise for agriculture, FAO-ITU have released the next in the series of E-agriculture in Action publication. About the Big Data for Agriculture publication...
04/06/2019
The two-day International forum “Agroteh-2019 – Steps beyond the horizon,” was organized by the National Research University Higher School of Economics together with FAO and the Russian Ministry of Agriculture in Moscow, and it focused on innovation as the central driving force to transform food...

27/ 03

2019

Paris, France 27/03/2019

This webinar adds to the existing discourse on gender data by demonstrating how partnerships within data systems are necessary for closing existing gaps and generating evidence-based policy for women and girls. The three different perspectives will offer webinar participants a unique view of progress towards closing gaps, collaborations that have cultivate that success, and the roadblocks that impede further progress.

The following questions will be discussed:

18/ 12

2018

19/ 12

2018

Kampala, Uganda 18/12/2018 – 19/12/2018

YITEDEV-Uganda is organising the Open and FAIR Data in Agriculture and Nutrition workshop with the main goal of unlocking the potential of weather, land and nutrition data to better the food value chain in Uganda.

26/09/2018
Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) and its GODAN Action partners in collaboration with Agricultural Data Interest Group (IGAD) are pleased to announce an Open Data in Agriculture Workshop to be held during International Data Week in Gaborone, Botswana on 6 November 2018...
10/09/2018
GODAN partners have scheduled a webinar on farmers'rights on data and ownership issues, on the 18th of September 2018 at 4:00 PM- 5:00 PM CEST. The webinar will address the following questions:- What do we mean by the farmers' rights to data? Who owns data? Who is entitled to the value of the data...
A drone operator flies a drone at a farm at Tengeru, near the city of Arusha
07/02/2018
GFAR recently announced a series of webinars on farmers' rights to data and this is a follow-up to the face-to-face course on Farmers Access to Data that was held in Centurion (Pretoria), South Africa in November 2017. According to the GFAR website,the webinars will be co-convened together with...
A drone operator flies a drone at a farm at Tengeru, near the city of Arusha
08/11/2017
On the 24th of November GFAR (Global Forum on Agricultural Research) has convened a syposium on farmers' rights and access to data in Johannesburg, South Africa. The event is co-funded by GODAN and CTA and organized by ITOCA. In order to learn more about the event or to register for the event, click...
A drone operator flies a drone at a farm at Tengeru, near the city of Arusha
18/05/2017
The first beta release of the FAO Water Productivity through Open access of Remotely sensed derived data (WaPOR) portal is available as of 14 April 2017. The FAO portal monitors and reports on agriculture water productivity over Africa and the Near East. The portal provides open access to the water...