Achieving better production in Asia-Pacific through digital agriculture
01/12/2022
This short video looks at how a cooperative-run Digital Village Service Centre in Lahiri Mohanpur in rural Bangladesh is promoting innovation and connectivity. Thereby transforming the lives and livelihoods of smallholder dairy farmers and processors. FAO’s global Digital Village Initiative supports inclusive, gender-sensitive rural development and sustainable agrifood systems transformation.
Achieving better production in Asia Pacific through data driven insights enhance water productivity
01/12/2022
In Sri Lanka, FAO is building capacities of local irrigation experts to monitor water productivity, identify water productivity gaps and propose solutions to reduce these gaps with real-time data from the FAO WaPOR platform. Thereby contributing to a sustainable increase of agricultural production that benefits farmers and safeguards the environment.
FAO Science and Innovation Forum 2022
19/09/2022
Highlights the centrality of science, technology and innovation for agrifood systems transformation. The event will embrace a diversity of perspectives based on science, thereby facilitating rationalization and inclusiveness of debate.
FAO DG Qu Dongyu Video Message for the Science and Innovation Forum 17-21 October
15/09/2022
FAO DG Qu Dongyu Video Message for the Science and Innovation Forum 17-21 October
FAO Assistant Director-General, Maurizio Martina speaks about the Science and Innovation Forum 2022
13/09/2022
The FAO Science and Innovation Forum 2022 will focus on highlighting the centrality of science, technology and innovation for agrifood systems transformation.
FAO Chief Scientist, Ismahane Elouafi invites you to attend the Science and Innovation Forum 2022
06/09/2022
We need #innovation and #technologies to suit and work well for small-scale producers so that we leave no one behind.
FAO’s first ever Science and Innovation Strategy
21/07/2022
How science and innovation can help achieve more efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable agrifood systems
How science and innovation can help achieve more efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable agrifood systems
07/07/2022
FAO’s first ever Science and Innovation Strategy.
Recap video of Global AgriInno Challenge 2021
14/01/2022
This video is to recap the story of the Global AgriInno Challenge (GAC) 2021. GAC 2021 aims are to encourage youth and women to harness innovation, technologies and entrepreneurship to address challenges related to the transformation of rural villages into ‘Digital Villages’ that contribute to the Four Betters.
High-level event: Launching of the Memorandum of Understanding between FAO and WUR
15/04/2022
8 April 2022, Wageningen, Netherlands/Rome - Launching of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between FAO and Wageningen University & Research: Science and Innovation for MORE efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable agrifood systems.
FAO and Wageningen University & Research: Science and Innovation for MORE efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable agrifood systems
29/03/2022
FAO and the Wageningen University & Research (WUR) have a long-standing partnership and share common objectives to promote and carry out innovative and sustainable approaches for improving lives while safeguarding natural resources in line with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. In...
Scientists help keep food safe
09/06/2021
Science is behind the practices, guidelines and standards that keep our food safe in production, transit, processing, at market and at home. This video shows how the work of scientists all over the world helps to keep food safe along the supply chain.
The FAO AgrInvest – Food Systems project: Enabling sustainable investments in Burkina Faso
11/03/2022
In Burkina Faso, rice is a major staple crop and plays a considerable role in the economy, both as a source of income for poor farmers and as an important element in the diet of many households, especially in urban areas. For this reason, the AgrInvest-Food Systems project of FAO, an initiative ...
Using foresight in food safety
22/03/2022
Vittorio Fattori, FAO Food Safety Officer, explains that food may look different in the future than it does today but it still needs to be safe for human consumption. Foresight - a structured, forward-thinking approach – can build a better understanding of the drivers and trends that may affect t...
The Climate Risk Toolbox on the Hand-in-Hand Geospatial Platform
23/03/2022
The Climate risk toolbox supports FAO practitioners and the public to ensure that climate risks are fully identified and addressed by all projects and to meet the requirements of both FAO’s Environmental and Social Management Guidelines. The CRTB has been developed to promote the identific...
Innovation in the Small Island Developing States (SIDS)
27/08/2021
With the advent of the digital technology, many Small Island Developing States ( SIDS) have drawn on the power of innovation and digitalization to find solutions in agriculture, food, nutrition, environment and health. Restrictions caused by the arrival of COVID-19 have prompted innovators to loo...
Sustainable mechanization can improve the livelihoods & ensure there is enough food for everyone
10/07/2020
Tools, machines and technologies
have made our lives easier.
Simple hand tools
to advanced motorized equipment
can fundamentally transform the way we farm.
They can help us produce crops more efficiently and sustainably by…
1 Improving our use of natural resources.
2 Increasing fa...
From traditional to innovative integrated aquaculture solutions – A success story from Chilimbene
24/08/2021
In Mozambique 80 percent of people depend on agriculture and fisheries for their livelihood. Fisheries’decline in recent years has led to fish scarcity and increases of prices. Fish has slowly become a delicacy that only few could afford. Climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic added to the cha...
All we know on innovation on food and agriculture
25/11/2020
Innovation is a central driving force for transforming agri- food systems. Digital agri-food systems innovation includes: online platforms, precision agriculture (based on sensors, geodata and artificial intelligence), E-extension, E-commerce and digital technologies for rural finance. Digita...