Videos
Digital Village Centres empower farmers in Bangladesh
14/09/2021
FAO and Bangladesh’s Departments of Agricultural Extension are training farmers to use Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) to achieve digital transformation of agriculture.
Agriculture, content and tools
27/08/2021
Through a collective effort involving various stakeholders from agriculture industry around the Pacific, a platform for agriculture value chain actors has been developed to connect farmers, farmer organizations and government agencies with the overall goal to create a digital agricultural infr...
E-commerce for agriculture – Samoa
27/08/2021
In a small island country with a developing infrastructure, accessing markets in urban areas and ensure daily income for farmers can be challenging. New e-commerce platforms, combined with delivery services, are providing farmers with access to new markets. Learning how to trade online and tak...
Plastic Recycling Initiative – Samoa
27/08/2021
Single use plastic gets a bad ‘wrap’ in most parts of the world, but one innovator in the Pacific Island of Samoa, sees value in it. More than just a recycler, this innovator’s approach is to make others see personal value in plastic too, rather than the demon it’s been made out to be.
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 ...
Sharing digitalization and innovation for SIDS
25/08/2021
The world is benefiting from digitalizing. But the benefits are not equally realized. Many small island developing states (SIDS) are being left behind, and that's hampering their progress toward achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. It's time to solve that.
SIDS Solutions Forum 2021 - welcome address
25/08/2021
Welcome messages from the participants of the first SIDS Solutions Forum 2021: Prime Minister of Fiji, Hon. Josaia Voreqe Bainimarama, social entrepreneur and the founder of “Loving Islands” initiative Litia Taukäve, astronaut and FAO’s goodwill ambassador Thomas Pesquet; and the chairman of t...
Tupaia - Pacific
10/08/2021
Tupaia is a data platform named after a Polynesian navigator who travelled with and helped Europeans in the 18th century to map the Pacific. In the 21st century, this platform again has mapping at its core.
Cooksafe – Cook Islands
10/08/2021
The Cook Islands, like most island countries in the South Pacific, were affected by impacts of COVID-19 on their thriving tourism industry. CEO of the Cook Islands Chamber of Commerce, Eve Hayden explains why contact tracing technology was needed in order to open their borders to one of their ...
SISSTEM - ARUBA
09/08/2021
To solve pressing challenges for Small Island States, the University of Aruba, located in the Caribbean, aims to nurture the next generation of innovators, educators, researchers and leaders.
Samoa Women’s Association of Growers (SWAG) - Samoa
07/08/2021
The Samoa Women’s Association of Growers (SWAG) is a grassroots organization helping Samoan women growers and farmers to network, learn, and socialize in an environment that is open and supportive.
My Kana - Fiji
07/08/2021
Designed and developed in Fiji, My Kana is a mobile app that promotes healthy living by calculating the nutritional make-up of food eaten and recorded by the user.
Hot air dryer technology – Solomon Islands
07/08/2021
Solomon Islands is comprised of hundreds of islands most of them mountainous and remote. Doni Keli runs an organic foods business in Solomon Islands that processes various root crops and nuts sourced from local growers.
Samoa Women’s Association of Growers (SWAG)
07/08/2021
The Samoa Women’s Association of Growers (SWAG) is a grassroots organization helping Samoan women growers and farmers to network, learn, and socialize in an environment that is open and supportive. Papali’I Mele Mauala explains how SWAG fills an organizational gap for advocating women’s issues which can be incorporated into policies, strategic planning involving women in decision making processes.
Long Distance Vanilla – Samoa
02/08/2021
Passionate organic vanilla producer, Shelly Burich from Samoa shows how online technology helped her business recover from the impacts of COVID-19.
Marshall Islands – Making more out of tuna
12/07/2021
Tuna accounts for nearly all fisheries production and exports from the Marshall Islands. FISH4ACP aims to help this island state in the Pacific Ocean to bring more added value onshore from the tuna industry, while expanding exports to markets such as the European Union.
All we know about innovation in food and agriculture
25/11/2020
Innovation is a central driving force for transforming agrifood systems. Digital agrifood systems innovation includes: online platforms, precision agriculture (based on sensors, geodata and artificial intelligence), E-extension, E-commerce and digital technologies for rural finance. Digital ag...
Fish4ACP
16/07/2020
The joint FAO, EU, ACP Fish4ACP project prioritizes strengthening fisheries and aquaculture value chains in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific to benefit local communities and facilitate trade.
Transforming Food Systems
15/07/2020
Global recovery from the pandemic… must spark new and better ways of achieving our joint goals. includes actions to build back better should catalyze a… food systems transformation.