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Posts on the Topic "advocacy"

A drone operator flies a drone at a farm at Tengeru, near the city of Arusha
01/08/2017
Mitra, which stands for Mobile Interventions and Technologies for Rural Areas, is an app providing advice on fertilizer needs and doses for farmers. The app is designed both for farmers and extension workers to advocate site-specific recommendations to farmers on fertilizer dose. Mitra is available...
A drone operator flies a drone at a farm at Tengeru, near the city of Arusha
21/06/2017
When: Session 1: Monday 10 July 2017 at 10 AM CEST/ Rome Session 2: Monday 10 July 2017 at 4PM CEST/Rome Duration: 1 hour e-Agriculture, the Food and Agriculture Organizaiton of the United Nations (FAO) and the Global Open Data on Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN ) are organizing a webinar to...

10/ 07

2017

10/07/2017

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in partnership with the Global 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.

19/ 06

2017

19/06/2017

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in partnership with the Global Data on Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN); the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) and the World Bank are inviting interested individuals to participate on the upcoming forum discussion to be held on e-agriculture platform. The forum is summarised below

10/ 07

2017

10/07/2017

When: 

Session 1: Monday 10 July 2017 at  10 AM CEST/ Rome

Session 2: Monday 10 July 2017 at  4PM CEST/Rome

Duration: 1 hour

A drone operator flies a drone at a farm at Tengeru, near the city of Arusha
06/06/2017
The United Nations Global Pulse is an initiative that focus on Big Data. The Pulse Lab Kampala, in Uganda has developed a prototype application that makes it possible to analyse in real time public discussions on the radio. This tool is unique in that it applies speech technology in three Ugandan...
A drone operator flies a drone at a farm at Tengeru, near the city of Arusha
17/05/2017
The text below is from the United Nations website The purpose of World Telecommunication and Information Society Day (WTISD) is to help raise awareness of the possibilities that the use of the Internet and other information and communication technologies (ICT) can bring to societies and economies...
A drone operator flies a drone at a farm at Tengeru, near the city of Arusha
28/04/2017
ICTs are pivotal for the future of agriculture. As they are finding an ever important space in most sectors of everyday life, agriculture should't be an exeption. ICTs can help in many ways producers and particularly smallholders in their livelihoods and development. In particular, ICTs can be an...
A drone operator flies a drone at a farm at Tengeru, near the city of Arusha
22/02/2017
One of the main issues farmers face is the lack of data on their land and crops, and the same thing could be said of the national level. One solution for this are ICT toold which provide cheap, fast and reliable information on crops and yelds both to farmers and researchers or governements. AgriNeTT...