Posts on the Topic "farmers"
Call for Solutions Private Sector-Related Innovative Rural Development
03/06/2019
The Alliance for a Green Revolution (AGRA) is launching a Call for Rural Innovative Solutions in agriculture to invite the submission of write-ups for known existing solutions applicable to rural agriculture. These solutions should enable smallholder farmers to increase their production, incomes and...
Digital Agriculture Transformation Seminar
21/05/2019
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has organized the Digital Agriculture Transformation Seminar which will be held on the 12th and 13th of June, 2019. The theme of the seminar is 'The challenges to be addressed'. The two day seminar will focus on the transformational digital technologies...
Girls in ICT Day (25 April 2019): Expand horizons, change attitudes
25/04/2019
Today is the 25 April 2019 and more than 170 countries worldwide get set to promote tech studies to girls and women on ‘ Girls in ICT Day’. The International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the global technology community and an expected 170+ countries will celebrate 'Girls in ICT Day', an...
Technology Brings Revolutionary Change in African Agriculture
18/04/2019
by Tom Price, Independent Writer for ICT4D Conference Humans have been farming the African landscape for thousands of years, and not a great deal has changed over the many centuries. The slow rhythms of the agricultural seasons are what really drive this continent with more than 60 percent of the...
Smallholders benefitting from digitized agriculture
17/04/2019
SciDevNet opines that the use of ICT tools is helping smallholders access farm inputs and increase yields. The article reviews a project in Uganda that is using ICTs to empower smallholder farmers. The situation: A major problem that has been confronting the two Ugandan smallholders – who epitomise...
Call for Applications for the first edition of its Arab Women Leaders in Agriculture
11/04/2019
The International Centre for Biosaline Agriculture (ICBA), has launched the Call for Applications for the first edition of its Arab Women Leaders in Agriculture, Awla Fellowship. The Call is open to Arab women researchers from the MENA region, with a strong and demonstrable interest in national...24/ 06
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The 3rd African Youth Agripreneur Forum (AYAF) Conference
Cape Town, South Africa 24/06/2019 – 28/06/2019
The 3rd African Youth Agripreneur Forum (AYAF) Conference and AgriPitch Competition will be held in Cape town, South Africa from 24th – 28th June 2019 under the theme:
“Climate Smart Agriculture: Business and Employment Opportunities for Africa’s Youth”.
First TECA Moderated discussion on the topic of Agricultural Mechanization
03/04/2019
The Technologies and Practices for Small Agricultural Producers (TECA) is an online platform that gathers successful agricultural technologies and practices to facilitate knowledge exchange and help family farmers in the field. Recently TECA has launched the first moderated discussion on the topic...
Call on digital innovations for agriculture in the Europe and Central Asia region
25/03/2019
FAO Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia has launched a call on digital innovations for agriculture in that region. The call aims at collecting lessons learned and recommendations for the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) or digital innovations in the sectors of...