Posts on the Topic "Technologies"
How Technology can help end hunger? IFAD’s Position
16/02/2018
Evidence have shown that technology has the potential to improve agricultural productivity. Specifically ICTs can help governments and developmental organizations to enhance food security and improve rural livelihoods through both knowledge and skills transfer. In most cases also improve the...
Seminar on FAO’s Farmer Field Schools programme and Global Platform
13/02/2018
The FAO Technical Network on Sustainable Crop Production and Agroecology will hold a Seminar on FAO’s Farmer Field Schools programme and Global Platform on Wednesday in FAO HQ with remote participation online at http://www.fao.org/webcast/en/ . All interested e-Agriculture CoP members can...
The power of digital technologies for the future of agriculture and food security -Agenda 2030
12/02/2018
The future of agriculture hinges on the adoption of technologies such as the Internet of Things (loT), Big Data and Artificial Intelligence, noted Vicente Muñoz, Chief Internet of Things Officer, Telefónica. This comment was made during the presentation on the power of digital technologies to the...
International Day of Women and Girls in Science : Reflections from women in Ag
12/02/2018
11 February was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly (resolution A/RES/70/212) as the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, to achieve full and equal acceess to and participation in science for women and girls. Within agriculture, CIMMYT has chosen to celebrate this day by...
Webinar series on Farmers’ access to data
07/02/2018
GFAR recently announced a series of webinars on farmers' rights to data and this is a follow-up to the face-to-face course on Farmers Access to Data that was held in Centurion (Pretoria), South Africa in November 2017. According to the GFAR website,the webinars will be co-convened together with...
FAO Agricultural Services and Digital Inclusion in Africa nominated for WSIS Prize 2018
06/02/2018
The FAO Agricultural Services and Digital Inclusion in Africa has been nominated to the WSIS Prizes 2018. We are inviting your vote for the project to win. The selection of the projects will be done on the 19th to the 23rd of February and then announced during the WSIS Forum 2018. To vote one needs...
Drones in agriculture: a tool for early pest detection.
06/02/2018
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations projects that by 2050 humanity’s ranks will likely have grown to nearly 10 billion people. Farmers will need to produce more with less, while preserving our environment for future generations. And society has a duty to help them...
African Union embraces drones technology for agriculture
05/02/2018
African Union publishes a Decision EX . CL/Dec. 986-1007 (XXXII), the Executive Council of the African Union (AU), requests the AU and Member States to harness drones for agriculture as one of three emerging technologies of relevance for African development. The recently held African Union saw its...05/ 04
2018
Can innovation and technology make agriculture sustainable?
United States of America 05/04/2018
This two-day business forum is designed to provide leading discussion and debate around how to leverage technology, climate-smart agriculture and cross-sector collaborations to improve sustainable farming, deliver against company objectives and balance positive impact for farmers, businesses and the planet. We will cover important questions by taking a practical look at a wide range of solutions in AgTech, Climate Smart Agriculture, Standards, Benchmarks, Corporate Case Studies, and Finance.