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Posts on the Topic "extensionists"

A drone operator flies a drone at a farm at Tengeru, near the city of Arusha
MITRA (Mobile Interventions and Technologies for Rural Areas) app provides advice on fertilizer needs and doses
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
Summary of Discussions: Week 3 of the e-Forum on ICTs and Open Data in Agriculture and Nutrition
14/07/2017
The third week of the e-forum discussion on ICTs and Open Data in Agriculture and Nutrition continued with participants sharing tips on different investments that are needed to reap open data benefits. The question for week 3 was: What investments are needed to reap open data benefits and what...
A drone operator flies a drone at a farm at Tengeru, near the city of Arusha
AGORA Webinars: Effective Search Strategies for Researchers. Finding resources on AGORA and other platforms (EN/FR/ES)
13/07/2017
As promoted on AIMS We are pleased to announce three upcoming webinars in English, French and Spanish about developing search strategie for researchers. We will demonstrate how a well formulated search strategy can facilitate literature search on the AGORA platform via Summon and on other platforms...
A drone operator flies a drone at a farm at Tengeru, near the city of Arusha
e-Forum discussion on the Agriculture Open Data Package - AgPack.info
12/07/2017
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in partnership with the Global Open 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...
A drone operator flies a drone at a farm at Tengeru, near the city of Arusha
Seminar Summary: Towards Inclusive Rural Communication Services, contributing to poverty reduction and the SDGs
05/07/2017
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) recently held on the 27th of June a seminar entitled, " Towards Inclusive Rural Communication Services: Contributing to Poverty Reduction and the SDGs". This seminar is timely in that FAO recently aligned its strategic objectives with...
A drone operator flies a drone at a farm at Tengeru, near the city of Arusha
Summary of Discussions: Week 2 of the e-Forum on ICTs and Open Data in Agriculture and Nutrition
03/07/2017
The second week of the e-forum discussion on ICTs and Open Data in Agriculture and Nutrition continued with participants sharing examples and case studies on open data in agriculture. The question for week 2 was: What is the potential for open data in agriculture and nutrition? Does open data...
A drone operator flies a drone at a farm at Tengeru, near the city of Arusha
Four new videos on agriculture and nutrition have been posted on Access Agriculture
30/06/2017
Four new videos on four different areas (mango seedlings, making soumbala from soya beans, sheep & goats, and pumpkins) have been posted on the platform www.accessagriculture.org. They are currently available in English and French for the one on soya while in English, French, and Bangla for the...
FAO Technical Cooperation Project (TCP) Emergency response to enhance technical capacity for early warning, monitoring and management of Fall Armyworm in Sri Lanka
What Is the Future of ICT4Ag?
22/06/2017
With the ICTforAg Conference scheduled for June 23rd in Washington, D.C., we got to thinking about the future of AgTech. A key lesson learned from the first wave of ICT4Ag development, which is now driving a new era, is that it doesn’t matter how brilliantly an app is designed but rather whether the...