Posts on the Topic "researchers"
CTA 2016 Annual Report is online!
09/06/2017
The Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) just released its 2016 online annual report. The articles in this annual review focus on CTA’s projects aimed at smallholder farmers and concerns innovations in agribusiness, finance, ICTs, climate-smart agriculture, agro-tourism...
EM-DAT: The International Disaster Database
30/05/2017
The Emergency Events Database (EM-DAT) was created by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED), a leading repository of information on the impact of disasters, in 1988. The Emergency Events Database (EM-DAT) is a free database containing worldwide data on the occurrence and...
Introducing the new FAOSTAT: the world's largest database of food and agriculture statistics
29/05/2017
FAO introduced a new and updated FAOSTAT website, making the world's most comprehensive statistical database on food, agriculture, fisheries, forestry, natural resource management and nutrition even more accessible. The updated web tool - in its fourth edition - incorporates multiple technology...11/ 09
2017
SoilMapp for iPad: soil information at your fingertips
26/05/2017
SoilMapp is an app for iPad that lets users find out soil information such as how much water the soil holds, its clay content and acidity, among other attributes related to agricultural productivity and land management. The app enables users to view maps, photographs, satellite images, tables and...
AQUASTAT: FAO's Global Information System on Water and Agriculture
19/05/2017
AQUASTAT is FAO's global information system on water and agriculture. It collects, analyses and disseminates data and information by country and by region. Its aim is to provide users interested in global, regional and national analyses with comprehensive information related to water resources and...
Webinars! Finding AGORA resources by keyword - Literature Research with Summon
18/05/2017
This announcement is published as it was shared on AIMS We are pleased to announce three upcoming webinars in English, French and Spanish about how to search AGORA with Summon. Summon facilitates literature research on the AGORA portal enabling the user to search resources by keyword, filter search...
ICT and SDGs: How Information and Communications Technology Can Accelerate Action on the Sustainable Development Goals
18/05/2017
Ericsson and The Earth Institute, Columbria University have published this report entitled, " ICT and SDGs: How Information and Communications Technology Can Accelerate Action on the Sustainable Development Goals". The authors of this report acknowledge that the achievement of the Sustainable...