Posts on the Topic "farmers"
Food System Vision Prize: Envisioning Regenerative and Nourishing Food Futures
30/10/2019
The Food System Vision Prize has opened for submission until the 31st of January 2020 in phase 1 (Open Submission). This is an invitation for organizations across the globe to develop a vision of regenerative and nourishing food system that they aspire to create by the year 2050. Are you a legally...
African Drone Business Challenge
28/10/2019
The African Drone Forum’s Business Challenge is the first Pan-African business plan competition designed exclusively for African entrepreneurs that have identified new and innovative business models enabled through drone technology and data. The commercial use cases for drone applications can impact...
The ICT Update No. 92 for September 2019 reflecting on digitalisation published
24/10/2019
The September Issue of ICT Update is now available online and reflects on the 20 years of publishing the ICT Update - nearly 100 issues. The current issue highlights three recurring themes – learning; barriers for inclusion and adoption of ICTs; and innovation and entrepreneurship.An editorial by...23/ 10
2019
Webinar:Towards the establishment of an International Digital Council for Food and Agriculture
Rome, Italy 23/10/2019
- Presenter: Mr. Samuel Varas, Director of the Information Technology Division at FAO,
- Moderator: Ms. Meng Zeng, Information Technology Officer at FAO.
Mr. Varas will provide an introduction to the role that digitalization can play in making agriculture more productive and sustainable. He will then present the ideas behind the International Digital Council and the multi-stakeholder process leading to its implementation.
FAO webinar series on strengthening agricultural extension and advisory services system
17/10/2019
17 October. Rome. As a part of FAO’s work in transforming National Agricultural Extension and Advisory Services System (EAS), FAO’s Research and Extension Unit wishes to start a webinar series to raise awareness on various challenges and opportunities related to strengthening and reforming EAS. EAS...18/ 10
2019
Consultation on Establishing an International Digital Council for Food and Agriculture
Rome, Italy 18/10/2019
In January 2019, at the Global Forum for Food and Agriculture (GFFA), the agriculture Ministers of 74 countries issued a communiqué that called upon FAO “to draw up, in consultation with stakeholders including the World Bank, African Development Bank, IFAD, WFP, OECD, WTO, ITU, OIE and CTA a concept for the establishment of an international Digital Council for Food and Agriculture”
The goal of this side event is to have a final open multi-stakeholder consultation regarding the needs, scope and functionality of the International Digital Council for Food and Agriculture proposal.
The Global Emergence of Community Drones (2012-2017)
10/10/2019
A recently published paper overviews the use of drones in the past decade. Authors Nicolás Vargas-Ramírez * and Jaime Paneque-Gálvez *Centro de Investigaciones en Geografía Ambiental, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Antiguacarretera a Pátzcuaro No. 8701, Morelia CP 58190, Michoacán, México...
“Innovating together: connectivity that matters” – ITU Telecom World ‘19
10/09/2019
The International Telecommunication Union in conjunction with partners is holding the ITU Telecom World ’19, in Budapest, Hungary from the 9th to the 12th of September 2019. The theme of this edition is ‘ Innovating together: connectivity that matters’ and brings a cross spectrum of participants...
Digital Agriculture Knowledge Sharing - AGRF Side Meeting
04/09/2019
The African Green Revolution Forum is underway in Accra, Ghana and the FAO E-Agriculture team is participating and facilitated a parallel session on Establishing the International Digital Council for Food and Agriculture, on the 3rd of September and the FAO CIO director also spoke on the Panel...