Posts on the Topic "extensionists"
Season's Greetings from e-Agriculture
19/12/2018
2018 has been a remarkable year for the e-Agriculture. We continued to foster the global community of practice through dialogue, information exchange and sharing of ideas related to the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) for sustainable agriculture and rural development. We...18/ 12
2018
19/ 12
2018
Open and Fair Data for Agriculture
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.
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...
Focus on FAO-ITU E-agriculture Solutions Forum 2018
04/12/2018
The E-agriculture Solutions Forum 2018 was held from 15 to 17 November 2018 and was organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the International Telecommunications Union (ITU). The meeting was hosted by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of the P.R. of China and in...
Digital disruption in agriculture
30/11/2018
Perhaps the name sounds negative, but not until you dig deeper. The rate of technology change has affected many people, processes and sectors. With regards to agriculture, our colleagues published an article, ' digital disruption in agriculture’. They premise that, the pace of digital disruption...
Call for abstracts on Capacity Building in a Changing ICT Environment 2019 Edition
23/11/2018
ITU invites interested authors to submit papers to be considered for the third issue of the publication " Capacity Building in a Changing ICT Environment 2019". The ITU online publication “Capacity Building in a Changing ICT Environment”, which is released annually, puts together scholarly articles...
The Call for Nominations is Now Open!
21/11/2018
International Innovation Award for Sustainable Food and Agriculture The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the Government of Switzerland have announced the call for nominations for the 1st International Innovation Award for the Sustainable Food and Agriculture. The call is targeted at...
The International Symposium on Agricultural Innovation for Family Farmers roars into life
21/11/2018
The FAO headquarters in Rome was this morning abuzz with delegates and participants to the much anticipated International Symposium on Agricultural Innovation for Family Farmers, which runs from the 21st to the 23rd of November 2018. The theme of this symposium is ‘unlocking the potential of...25/ 11
2018
Innovative Solutions and Technologies for Conservation
25/11/2018
Science and technology are transforming society and expanding the frontier of possibility. The field of biodiversity conservation can and should capitalize on the opportunities that emerging innovative solutions and technologies present.
This side event will feature the UN Biodiversity Lab and other innovative solutions and explore how fourth industrial revolution technologies can improve conservation efforts around the global and shift the direction of the biodiversity agenda..
