Posts on the Topic "decision-makers"
18/ 05
2020
Supporting Farmers with Low-Cost Digital Tools During Covid-19
18/05/2020
The COVID-19 outbreak has created extreme vulnerability in the agriculture sector, impacting farmer livelihoods and resilience, food security, and agricultural market systems. Current disruptions—such as COVID-19—and future crises are presenting threats to the food supply chain. Because of this, global, local, and government organizations are increasing the application of digital tools and introducing new innovations to provide technical assistance to farmers from distance, when traditional in-person agricultural extension is impossible.
USAID launches the agency-wide Digital Strategy
11/05/2020
USAID has released its first-ever Digital Strategy, charting an Agency-wide vision for development and humanitarian assistance in the world’s rapidly evolving digital landscape. Building on decades of leadership in digital development, the Strategy outlines USAID’s deliberate and holistic commitment...
Invitation to ZOOMINAR IV : Accelerating Digital Extension Advisory Services (DEAS) in post COVID-19 context
08/05/2020
BACKGROUND The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) are providing policy recommendations, guidelines and tools to improve Extension Advisory Services (EAS) systems, in order to build resilience of smallholders to crises and disasters...
The national digital agriculture strategy for Armenia is on its way, with FAO support
07/05/2020
Online consultation helps working group members discuss further steps and share opinion Yerevan, Armenia – An online consultation of the Ministry of Economy and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), held today, marks another step in the development of a national digital...
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...
Task Force Focusing on Impacts of COVID-19 on Africa’s Food Security Begins Work
05/05/2020
As published on fao.org 5 May 2020, Rome – Ensuring people have access to food by keeping borders open for trade is critical during this period of COVID-19 and to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, FAO Director-General QU Dongyu, said today during the first meeting of the Task Force on the...
How innovations are WFP’s allies in the fight against coronavirus
04/05/2020
The World Food Programme is scaling up operations in more than 80 countries with a little help from techies and creatives In a recent article, WFP has shared how the innovative use of technologies is helping the organization respond to the COVID19 pandemic. Technology and innovation have always been...
Innovation Challenge by GIZ
03/04/2020
The GIZ agricultural Innovation fund is looking for startups or small businesses with innovative ideas for the agri-food sector in Africa (Algeria, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Chad, Egypt, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali...
Challenge Call on the ‘Desert Locust’ at the Kampala INSPIRE Hackathon 2020
19/03/2020
The ‘desert locust’ is one of the challenge calls at the Kampala INSPIRE Hackathon 2020. The Kampala INSPIRE Hackathon 2020 is one of the satellite INSPIRE hackathons. The hackathon is organised in the frame of the IST Africa 2020 Conference. There are 9 challenges in this Kampala edition. The...