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The GSMA mAgri Programme forges partnerships between mobile operators, technology providers and agricultural organisations. Although it has enourmous potential, Mexico seems to have been left out by ICT for agriculture initiatives. This article presents seven reasons for which Mexican agriculture should invest in ICT related projects to lift farmers out of poverty and into the 21st century. 1. The needs of Mexican farmers are huge 3.9 million farmers out of 5.3 million in Mexico earn of less than USD 1,000 per year. 61 per cent of Mexican farmers live in poverty. The reasons for this...
This announcement is reproduced as published on AIMS Dear Users AIMS team pleased to invite you to attend an upcoming webinar as part of the AIMS@Webinars series: HOW MUCH DATA IS ENOUGH IN PRECISION AGRICULTURE? DATE: Wednesday May 10th, 2017 TIME: at 15.00 CET / 16.00 CEST TARGET AUDIENCE: The webinar is open to all We welcome questions and suggestions at: [email protected] To PARTICIPATE: SEND YOUR REQUEST at: [email protected] containing: Subject: AIMS@Webinar_BDI Your Name: Your e-mail: Affiliation: LINK TO THE WEBINAR ROOM http://fao.adobeconnect.com/bde-pilot/ Once registered, you will receive...
The e-Agriculture Community of Practice and its partners are constantly looking for good and promising practices on the use of ICTs for Agriculture to share lessons learned and recommendations from ICT for Agriculture innitiatives all around the world with the members of the Community of Practice and beyond. You can find the selected promising and good practices and related information on Experience Capitalization and the documentation of good and promising practices on this page of the e-Agriculture platform. e-Agriculture is always happy to receive your proposals for good and promising...
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) and the e-Agriculture Community of Practice (COP) are launching a call for good and promising practices on the use of ICTs for Agriculture. Are you using ICTs to improve crop production, to monitor irrigation, or to control pests or diseases? Do you have lessons and recommendations that you would like to share with the community? Is your project innovative and worth upscaling? Let us know by participating in this call for good and promising practices. The call...
e-Learning Africa is the largest gathering (conference) of e-Learning and ICT supported education and training professionals in Africa and it enables participants to interact with multinational and cross-industry participants and partnerships. This e-Learning Africa 2017, is the 12th International Conference on ICT for Development, Education & Training and is themed "Learning in Context". This year the conference will be hosted by the Government of the Republic of Mauritius. The conference will have talks and exhibition from wide range of stakeholders.Governments, manufacturers, service...
ICTforAg2017 Date Friday 23 June 2017 Location Washington DC, United States of America Description ICTforAg2017 conference will bring together 300 thought leaders and decision-makers in agriculture and technology from the international development community and the private sector. With community-...
First webinar GODAN Working Group on Capacity Development Date Wednesday 15 March 2017 15:00 CET Description The GODAN Working Group on Capacity Development has organised a webinar that will give an overview of the activities of the working group (WG) and the webinar will also explain how one can...
The GODAN Working Group on Capacity Development has organised a webinar that will give an overview of the activities of the working group (WG) and the webinar will also explain how one can get involved with WG's activities. GODAN welcomes all interested in joining the GODAN WG on Capacity Development and contributing to education and training on Open Data in food and agricultural sciences. This is open and free to all interested Date & Time: Wednesday 15 March 2017 15:00 CET Participation https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/849000378880392705 Speakers: André Laperrière- Executive...
Open Data and Open Science is a current hot topic and has implications for food and nutrition security , especially in Africa. JOIN us at a FREE WEBINAR dicussing OPEN DATA and OPEN SCIENCE: Current Trends and Global Initiatives Date: 14 February 2017, Tuesday Time: 13:00 Ghana | 14:00 Rome | 15:00 Johannesburg | 16:00 Nairobi Presenter: Imma Subirats , Information Management Officer at the FAO of the United Nations , Rome, Italy. Imma has more than 20 years’ experience in information management. Moderator: Blessing Mawire, Deputy Director for Training and Research at the Information Training...
INTRODUCTION The livelihoods of the world’s poor rise and fall with the fate of agriculture. Enhancing the ability of smallholders to connect with the knowledge, networks, and institutions necessary to improve their productivity, food security, and employment opportunities is a fundamental...
ICTforAg2017 Date Friday 23 June 2017 Location Washington DC, United States of America Description ICTforAg2017 conference will bring together 300 thought leaders and decision-makers in agriculture and technology from the international development community and the private sector. With community-...