Posts on the Topic "partners"
Article: AI-powered banana diseases and pest detection
05/08/2019
A recent paper has been published and examines the use of Artificial Intelligence in 'just-in-time' crop disease detection in banana. The paper reviews research towards the development of an AI-based banana disease and pest detection system using a deep convolutional neural networks (DCNN) to...
e-Agriculture Survey 2019
01/08/2019
The e-Agriculture team is launching a user survey to obtain feedback from the Community of Practice and interested users to better understand their needs, interaction on the platform and how content can be designed to meet their needs. The survey will take less than 10 minutes to complete and it...26/ 08
2019
29/ 08
2019
3rd Session of the Asia-Pacific Information Superhighway (AP-IS) Steering Committee and WSIS Regional Review
Bangkok, Thailand 26/08/2019 – 29/08/2019
The 3rd session of the AP-IS Steering Committee is planned to review the latest research findings, current implementation of the Master Plan 2019-2022 by member countries, ESCAP and partner organizations and discuss emerging trends and technologies which affect the implementation and agree on follow-up actions.
The Third African Union - European Union Agriculture Ministerial Conference
21/06/2019
FAO welcomes the 3rd AU-EU Agriculture Ministerial Conference in FAO HQ, Rome on the 21st of June 2019. The conference is co-hosted by the African Union Commission and the European Commission. The AU Commissioner for Agriculture and rural economy, Ms Josefa Sacko and her counterpart the EU...12/ 06
2019
13/ 06
2019
Digital Agriculture Transformation Seminar : Challenges to be addressed
Rome, Italy 12/06/2019 – 13/06/2019
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and partners will hold the Digital Agriculture Transformation Seminar: The challenges to be addressed. The seminar will be held in Rome, Italy on the 12th and 13th of June, 2019.
Keep in mind the real use of research
01/06/2019
Cover photo: Irrigating rice fields in Sirajganj, Bangladesh. Photo: Haseeb Md. Irfanullah. This post was originally published by I NASP blog and is reposted here for information sharing purposes A research system is basically made up of four components: accessing, conducting, communicating, and...
APPLY NOW: CGIAR’s 2019 Inspire Challenge
22/05/2019
APPLY NOW: CGIAR’s 2019 Inspire Challenge awarding up to 750,000 USD for innovative big data solutions that transform lives of smallholder farmers The 2019 launch of CGIAR’s Inspire Challenge is great news for innovators looking to transform the agriculture sector, with smallholder farmers in the...
Digital Agriculture Transformation Seminar
21/05/2019
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has organized the Digital Agriculture Transformation Seminar which will be held on the 12th and 13th of June, 2019. The theme of the seminar is 'The challenges to be addressed'. The two day seminar will focus on the transformational digital technologies...
Digital disruption in agriculture
30/11/2018
Perhaps the name sounds negative, but not until you dig deeper. The rate of technology change has affected many people, processes and sectors. With regards to agriculture, our colleagues published an article, ' digital disruption in agriculture’. They premise that, the pace of digital disruption...