Posts on the Topic "drought monitoring systems"
Task Force Focusing on Impacts of COVID-19 on Africa’s Food Security Begins Work
05/05/2020
As published on fao.org 5 May 2020, Rome – Ensuring people have access to food by keeping borders open for trade is critical during this period of COVID-19 and to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, FAO Director-General QU Dongyu, said today during the first meeting of the Task Force on the...
A glimpse into the Digital Technologies for Resilience Workshop Agenda
24/10/2018
The Digital Technologies for Resilience Workshop, which FHI 360 is organizing with support from the Rockefeller Foundation, will take place in Bangkok on November 27-28, 2018. This workshop follows the first similar workshop held in 2017. The workshop was set up as a space where participants within...
Applications for "Mobile for Humanitarian Innovation Fund" open
16/07/2018
The application for the mobile for humanitarian innovation fund for Round 2 opened on the 16th of July 2018 and will close on the 10th of August 2018. Eligible e-Agriculture CoP members are encouraged to apply. The GSMA Mobile for Humanitarian Innovation Fund The GSMA Mobile for Humanitarian...
Inviting Feedback to the 'Humanitarian UAV Update Code of Conduct'
11/07/2018
The Humanitarian UAV Network is inviting interested persons, entities and organizations within the International Humanitarian field to comment and contribute to the next version of the Humanitarian UAV/Drone Code of Conduct and Guidelines by the 1st of October 2018. Background to the call In May...
Launch of WeRobotics Online Training Academy
20/04/2018
WeRobotics has just announced the WeRobotics Online Training Academy to provide professional training on the use of drones by developmental agencies.The academy is co-managed with TechChange who have offered dynamic online training platform and in 2017 they trained over 7,000 people from 155...
Ethiopian herders get automated weather stations
16/01/2018
Image credit : Panos/SciDev.Net Ethiopian herders have been provided the automated weather stations which are providing them with reliable climate information; armed with this information they can weigh up risks and make preventative decisions – reports SciDev.Net. The Automated weather stations...
ICTs For Small-Scale Farmers: A Game Changing Approach to Climate Smart Agriculture in Latin America
10/11/2017
The UN Climate Change Conference (COP23) is hosted by the secretariat of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and presided over by Fiji; signaling the return of climate change to the international agenda. This meeting comes just in time when the world is seeing climate induced...
FAO Myanmar promotes the use of drones to enhance disaster risk reduction
25/05/2017
FAO Myanmar is promoting the usage of drones to enhance disaster risk reduction and disaster risk management in the agriculture sector. The project is conducted in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation (MOALI) of Myanmar and the Myanmar Aerospace Engineering...05/ 06
2017
e-Agriculture Webinar on land and water data collection using low cost smartphones in Somalia
05/06/2017
Monday 5th of June – 15h CEST (1 hour) – Webinar on land and water data collection using low cost smartphones in Somalia