Posts on the Topic "advocacy"
e-Agriculture Community of Practice now above 14,000
28/09/2018
The e-Agriculture community is now above 14,000 users. e-Agriculture is a global community of practice, where people from all over the world exchange information, ideas, and resources related to the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) for sustainable agriculture and rural...
Global push to stamp out hunger hinges on better data
27/09/2018
Major new initiative aims to help low-income countries improve collection of agricultural data As published on FAO News 25 September 2018, New York - The lack of timely and high-quality agricultural data is handicapping efforts to implement the UN's sweeping Agenda for Sustainable Development, FAO...22/ 10
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2018
Free online e-conference on responding to the fall armyworm outbreak in Africa
22/10/2018 – 26/10/2018
Free online e-conference on responding to the fall armyworm outbreak in Africa, 22-26 October
Two years ago, fall armyworm (FAW) arrived in Africa. What we have learned so far? What are effective strategies in reaching farmers across the continent? How effective have responses so far been? What are the long-term consequences of these responses? What innovative ideas might work better?
Youth in Agriculture as Solid Solution to ending Hunger and Poverty in Africa
24/08/2018
The 20th and 21st of August was a hive of activity at the Kigali Conference Centre, where the youth from more than 40 countries, their ministers, government officials and international developmental partners led by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations participated in the youth...
The Inspire Challenge
20/07/2018
The CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture has announced “ The Inspire Challenge” which calls upon partners, universities, and others to use CGIAR data to create innovative pilots projects that can be scaled up. The winning teams will receive $100,000 to put their ideas into practice and the...
Invitation to the Interest Group in Agricultural Data (IGAD) Pre-Meeting P12 in Gaborone, Botswana
12/07/2018
Interested e-Agriculture CoP members are invited to the Botswana Research Data Alliance (RDA) Interest Group on Agricultural Data (IGAD) meeting in Gaborone, Botswana on the 5 -6th of November 2018. The Theme of the meeting is " Data Collection in Africa: State of the Art, Challenges and Solutions"...
Digital innovations designed to tackle the Fall Armyworm
04/07/2018
The finalists of the Fall Armyworm Tech Prize In the beginning of the year we posed the question, Can ICTs be used to fight pest’s outbreaks? Such as the Fall Armyworm? At that time the two initiatives by Farm Radio Trust and CABIs Pest Risk Information Service) PRISE stood out. Recently, we just...
aWhere: providing weather-based tips for smallholder farmers
12/06/2018
Location specific and timely advice to improve productivity and climate resilience among smallholder farmers Farmers in developing countries have a challenge of accessing localized weather data. Recently the e-Agriculture Team at FAO and aWhere published a Promising Practice that explains how aWhere...12/ 06
2018
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2018
Cracking the Nut 18
Antigua, Guatemala 12/06/2018 – 13/06/2018
Cracking the Nut 18 : Promoting Agricultural Technology Adoption and Resilience
Cracking the Nut 18 conference focuses on encouraging the uptake of new technologies for agriculture and access to finance in a way that promotes resilience.
