A Global Perspective on e-Agriculture

People - Institutions - Technology

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Rome, Italy

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The week-long dialogue, took place between 21-28 September 2007 focused on the use of information, communication, and associated technologies in sustainable agricultural development and food security. 

"e-Agriculture" is an emerging field comprising the enhancement of agriculture and rural development through improved information exchange, communication and learning processes, based on the use of internet and other digital technologies by actors in agriculture locally, regionally and worldwide.

The international Community at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) identified e-Agriculture as a priority in its Plan of Action. e-Agriculture Week has been designed as part of the follow-up to WSIS, and is being organized by a number of international organizations, led by FAO. This week-long event was developed based on results from a global survey on e-Agriculture in which over 3,400 stakeholders in 135 countries participated.

e-Agriculture Week allowed a wide range of stakeholders to describe their experiences while learning from others. Major areas of focus included:

- Practice: Technologies and Methodologies: a combination of discussion and hands on activities, looking at different approaches to the use of recently-developed methodologies and tools, focusing on good practices and on determining criteria by which success can be measured.

- Policy: An opportunity for participants to debate how different policies can impact e-agriculture activities and their enabling - or disabling - effect.




For more information, contact: info@e-agriculture.org

Related Links: Web2forDev - Participatory Web for Development