Posts on the Topic "resilience"
16/ 12
2022
Pitch Event of Global AgriInno Challenge 2022
16/12/2022
16 December Friday| 13:00-15:00 CET 20:00-22:00 Beijing Time
The Global AgriInno Challenge 2022, co-organized by FAO and Zhejiang University, encourages youth and women to harness innovation, entrepreneurship, and technologies to address challenges related to the agrifood transformation.
Azerbaijan gets digital with “eagro”
06/01/2021
Electronic Agricultural Information System – e-agriculture in Azerbaijan Currently, the sector accounts for less than 10 percent of the country’s gross domestic product and employs around 40 percent of the population. To further develop the agriculture sector, the government of Azerbaijan has...06/ 03
2020
International Women’s Day (IWD) 2020 "I am Generation Equality: Realizing Women’s Rights”
Rome, Italy 06/03/2020
The United Nations theme for the observance of the International Women’s Day (IWD) 2020 is: "I am Generation Equality: Realizing Women’s Rights”. Since 2020 marks also the 25th anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women, which took place in Beijing in September 1995, this year’s IWD presents a unique opportunity to review the global progress made on gender equality and women’s empowerment in the last 25 years, identify the gender gaps that still remain, and outline the way forward.
FAO hosts Digital Innovation Dialogue on blockchain for sustainability in agriculture
11/12/2019
Rome. 10 December 2019. The IT Division in FAO hosted the Digital Innovation Dialogue session on blockchain for sustainability in agriculture where Foodcoin, AgriLedger, Ripe and FAO presented their blockchain projects. The session was held amidst many blockchain-based solutions, which are being...
How FAO RuralInvest Software Improves Agriculture Investments
05/03/2019
By Günther Feiler, Capacity Development Officer, FAO Rome, and Thomas Muenzel, Investment Support Officer, FAO Bangkok ( The article was originally published by the ICTworks and we reproduce for our community. All rights acknowledged) Experience has shown that substantial public investments in...
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...
Winner of RFI’s Challenge App Africa announced
27/11/2018
Serge Auguste Zaonogo from Burkina Faso won the Radio France Internationale (RFI) Challenge App Africa for his invention ‘Saagga’ - an electronic mapping system that optimizes irrigation in the agricultural sector, permitting management while on-the-move. In a recent article, FAO noted that in...
A glimpse into the Digital Technologies for Resilience Workshop Agenda
24/10/2018
The Digital Technologies for Resilience Workshop, which FHI 360 is organizing with support from the Rockefeller Foundation, will take place in Bangkok on November 27-28, 2018. This workshop follows the first similar workshop held in 2017. The workshop was set up as a space where participants within...
The role of technology in Food Sovereignty: Part 1
23/10/2018
by Olaitan Ogunnote & Raimot Adewunmi - Undergraduate Research Assistants, ECV Ontario, SEDRD, University of Guelph Introduction While we might not yet be able to live on our red monochromatic, moon-like planetary counterpart, Mars, we could make our stay on the bright bluish-green Earth with hints...