Posts on the Topic "researchers"
European Union funds digital research and innovation for agriculture to tackle societal challenges
17/11/2017
The European Union avails 100 million euros funding for digital research and innovation that is made available under The Horizon 2020 work programme 2018-2020 which ( inter alia) seeks to advance the development and uptake of digital technologies in agriculture and rural areas. Digital technologies...
Further, faster, together: The vital role of ICTs in mitigating and adapting to climate change
17/11/2017
What has ICTs to do with climate change? Malcolm Johnson the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) Deputy Secretary General, answers this question in the published news items coinciding with the COP23 that was discussing The Paris Agreement. He positions ICTs as a solution to the current...
Regional Forum on e-agriculture for Central and South-East Europe Agenda
13/11/2017
The regional forum on e-agriculture for Central and South-East Europe began on the 13th of November 2017. The forum is themed, “ Precise and integrated response for sustainable farming and inclusive food systems” is being held in Novi Sad, Serbia. The agenda of the event is available here, and is...
New app to diagnose crop diseases, alert smallholders
13/11/2017
The CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas team won US$100,000 grant to refine a mobile application that uses artificial intelligence to diagnose crop diseases. This new app will attempt to solve the problem of pests and diseases that be face farmers with small holder farmers hardly hit...27/ 11
2017
Challenges for a data-driven society ITU Kaleidoscope Academic Conference,
China 27/11/2017
Kaleidoscope 2017: Challenges for a data-driven society is the ninth in a series of peer-reviewed academic conferences organized by ITU to bring together a wide range of views from universities, industry and research institutions.
How technology is primed to transform farming in Rwanda
09/11/2017
The NewTimes Newspaper in Rwanda reports the testing of mobile applications developed under the "Agricultural Services and Digital Inclusion in Rwanda" - which includes the four mobile applications - 'Cure and feed your livestock', 'eNtrifood', 'Weather and crop', and 'AgriMarketplace' developed in...
Kukua: Weather Data and forecasting services for local farmers in Africa
09/11/2017
Africa’s economy is based largely agriculture and most of them being smallholder farmers. One of the challenges these family farmers face is access to weather information and forecasting services. Lack of access to relevant weather information is due to lack of access of weather source information...
Use of mobile phone in rural area for agriculture development.
07/11/2017
In most developping countries, agriculture is the main source of the population’s income. Lack of acces to relevant informations leads to low yields, famers stress and low income. Nowadays Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have the potential to transform agriculture in rural area...
Week 2 round up on the introduction to drones learning activity
31/10/2017
From 16 to 27 October, e-Agriculture Team organized the “introduction to drones in agriculture’ learning activity. This self-learning activity is intended to increase the appreciation of and knowledge on the use of drones in agriculture and rural development to members and followers of the e...