Posts on the Topic "rural development"
UAE/FAO UN75 Webinar on Research, Technology and Innovation for Sustainable and Resilient Food Systems
10/12/2020
Register for the event here The United Arab Emirates Vision 2021 underscores innovation, research, science and technology as key pillars of a knowledge-based, highly productive and competitive economy, driven by entrepreneurs in a business-friendly environment. The Food and Water Security Office...
How innovations are WFP’s allies in the fight against coronavirus
04/05/2020
The World Food Programme is scaling up operations in more than 80 countries with a little help from techies and creatives In a recent article, WFP has shared how the innovative use of technologies is helping the organization respond to the COVID19 pandemic. Technology and innovation have always been...
Digital Innovation Challenge in Africa now live
09/10/2019
Dear e-Agriculture Users 2SCALE, one of the largest agribusiness accelerators in Africa, just launched its first innovation challenge. This is a unique opportunity for entrepreneurs to scale their digital innovation amongst the 750,000 farmers in the 2SCALE program. We're looking for digital...
Call for Solutions Private Sector-Related Innovative Rural Development
03/06/2019
The Alliance for a Green Revolution (AGRA) is launching a Call for Rural Innovative Solutions in agriculture to invite the submission of write-ups for known existing solutions applicable to rural agriculture. These solutions should enable smallholder farmers to increase their production, incomes and...11/ 03
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Commission on the Status of Women #CSW63
New York, United States of America 11/03/2019 – 22/03/2019
The sixty-third session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW63) will take place at the United Nations Headquarters in New York from 11 to 22 March 2019.
Representatives of Member States, UN entities, and ECOSOC-accredited non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from all regions of the world are expected to attend the session.
Priority theme: Social protection systems, access to public services and sustainable infrastructure for gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls;
How FAO RuralInvest Software Improves Agriculture Investments
05/03/2019
By Günther Feiler, Capacity Development Officer, FAO Rome, and Thomas Muenzel, Investment Support Officer, FAO Bangkok ( The article was originally published by the ICTworks and we reproduce for our community. All rights acknowledged) Experience has shown that substantial public investments in...
e-Agriculture Case Study on E-KOKARI published
23/01/2019
You might be wondering, What is E-KOKARI? E-KOKARI is an interactive voice responsive (IVR) platform developed in Niger and it allows farmers, breeders and buyers to access information, advice, warnings and market prices in the field of agriculture and livestock. E-KOKARI allows farming communities...
EIP-AGRI Seminar 'Multi-level strategies for digitising agriculture and rural areas’ in session
12/12/2018
The EIP-AGRI seminar “ Multi-level strategies for digitising agriculture and rural areas” roared into life today and seeks to provide a platform that will stimulate debate on digitisation of agriculture and rural areas – combining European, national, regional and local levels. This event is...
Estonia, Rwanda ICT entrepreneurs to create network
23/11/2017
Rwanda and Estonia are reported to have started to create a professional network between ICT entrepreneurs that could benefit these countries bi-laterally. This follows a working visit by the President of Estonia Her Excellency Kersti Kaljulaid who expressed interest in ICT oriented partnerships in...