Posts on the Topic "foresters"
Webinar: COVID-19 response and digitalization in Europe and Central Asia
21/05/2021
About the webinar The webinar on COVID-19 response and digitalization aims to present a number of technologies out of the wide digital agriculture range, their interconnectivity and potential benefits, as well as challenges to practical implementation during the pandemic. This webinar will help...
“Digitalization is the way of the new life and the new economy”
19/05/2021
FAO Director-General emphasizes responsibility and opportunity to overcome digital divide and make technologies available for rural smallholders 18 May 2021, Rome - Digital agriculture can drive the transformation of agri-food systems necessary to eliminate hunger, reduce poverty and build a better...27/ 04
2021
High-level Thematic Debate on Digital Cooperation and Connectivity
27/04/2021
- Date : 27 April 2020
- Online : Watch the event on UN TV
- Event Page : https://www.un.org/pga/75/digital-cooperation-and-connectivity/
Abstract
Zoominar IX: Role of Farmer Organizations in Agri-Food Systems Innovation
15/07/2020
Background In the context of COVID-19 outbreak, FAO RNE is organizing this Zoominar on Farmer organizations’ role in promoting innovation to increase food security, and sustainable rural development. Since the early spread of COVID-19, FAO underscored the crucial role of farmer organizations in...
Zoominar VIII: Innovation in social protection in response to COVID-19 in the NENA region: Building on best practices cases
06/07/2020
Background The Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak continues to spread throughout the Near East and North Africa (NENA) - Arab States region. The pandemic will have huge impacts on public health and represents already an unprecedented shock to economies, food systems and labour markets globally and in...
Blockchain Application in Seafood Value Chains
06/05/2020
Blog published by Erik van Ingen on 06.05.2020 FAO just published a circular entitled, " Blockchain application in seafood value chains". This publication contributes to equipping value chain actors with technical and managerial capacities to develop inclusive, efficient and sustainable agricultural...
Impacts of digitisation for agriculture
22/01/2020
ICT Update No. 93 published Over the last 20 years, the Technical Centre for Agriculture and Rural Cooperation (CTA) has followed and reported on the changing landscape in ICTs for agriculture through the ICT Update. Last year, CTA published the Digitalisation of African Agriculture Report, 2018...
Submit your application to speak for the 12th ICT4D Conference
19/11/2019
With next year’s 12th ICT4D Conference confirmed to take place on April 21 – 23 in Abuja, Nigeria - please note that there are now only just under 2 weeks for you to submit your speaker application. Deadline December 14, 2019. The event is an excellent platform to emphasize your position as a...26/ 11
2019
Policy Seminar : Transforming Africa’s Food System with Digital Technologies
26/11/2019
Co-Organized by the Malabo Montpellier Panel and IFPRIAfrican countries have made considerable progress in increasing agricultural productivity and reducing hunger, malnutrition, and poverty. But continued population growth, urbanization, changing diets, and climate change are putting pressure on food systems not only to provide more food but also to make more diverse and nutritious foods available and accessible.
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.