Posts on the Topic "extensionists"
Big Data Key to Unlocking Innovation in Agriculture for Future Food Security
20/06/2018
Keynote address at the Global Forum for Innovations in Agriculture by André Laperrière , Executive Director, of the Global Open Data Initiative for Agriculture and Nutrition , GODAN and Pekka Pesonen, Secretary General, Copa - Cogeca 20th June 2018, Utrecht, Netherlands - The need for advancement of...
Agro-Weather Tool for Climate Smart Agriculture
15/06/2018
A promising practice on the use of ICTs in weather-data for farmers Many small holder farmers in developing countries have faced huge challenges as a result of climate change induced weather effects. Most of these farmers rely on traditional methods to understand weather predictions. Localised...12/ 06
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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.
Women’s access to ICTs for Agriculture and reflections on CTA at the European Development Days 2018
06/06/2018
In the just ended European Development Days 2018, The Technical Centre for Agriculture and Rural Cooperation (CTA) sponsored a session on women’s access to ICTs for agriculture. Through this event and supporting women’s access to ICTs for agriculture, CTA is helping to close the gender gap and...
Podcasting to improve food security and nutrition
04/06/2018
A case study in Guruve and Mt Darwin, Zimbabwe under the Ensuring Nutrition, Transforming and Empowering Rural Farmers and Promoting Resilience in Zimbabwe (ENTERPRIZE) program by Innocent Kafembe Guruve Zimbabwe, 2018 -The Zimbabwe Livelihoods and Food Security Programme (LFSP) is improving the...
ICTforAg 2018 : An interesting agenda ahead
03/06/2018
ICTforAg 2018 annual conference brings together 300 practitioners and decision makers in agriculture and international development. This year’s edition seeks to focus on new ICT solutions that can boost the productivity of both smallholder farmers and agricultural markets systems. ICTforAg is...
e-Agriculture webinar on Transformative Digital Extension delivery and smallholder farm marketing in Zimbabwe through the Kurima Mari Mobile app
01/06/2018
The e-Agriculture Team in conjuction with Welthungerhilfe, Zimbabwe and the Ministry of Land, Agriculture and Rural Resettlement (Midlands, Zimbabwe) invites interested persons to the webinar on "Transformative Digital Extension delivery and smallholder farm marketing in Zimbabwe through the Kurima...
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...
Innovative solutions within digital-agriculture, highlighted in FAO Director General’s interview with Xinhua
19/04/2018
Along the sidelines of the 34th FAO's Regional Conference for Asia and the Pacific in Fiji, Xinhua interviewed the Director-general of FAO Mr. José Graziano da Silva on the Belt and Road Initiative. The Belt and Road Initiative was proposed by China in 2013 and aims to ‘build trade and...