E-Agriculture

Posts on the topic "advocacy"

Posts on the topic "advocacy"

  • AI Ethics: An Abrahamic commitment to the Rome Call

    (left to right: Sheikh Al Mahfoudh Bin Bayyah (Secretary General of the Abu Dhabi Peace Forum); Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, president of the Pontifical Academy for Life and the RenAIssance Foundation; and Chief Rabbi Eliezer Simha Weisz (member of the Council of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel). The three Abrahamic religions launch an appeal for an ethical development of artificial intelligence VATICAN CITY, 10th January 2023- “We have gathered with our Jewish and Muslim brothers in an event of great importance to call upon the world to think and act in the name of brotherhood and peace - even...
  • LAUNCH EVENT: RuralInvest

    The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Investment Centre is delighted to invite you to attend the launch event for the new RuralInvest – a free toolkit to build bankable, sustainable agribusiness proposals, developed by FAO division of Digitalization and Informatics. Date...
  • Join the Pitch Event of Global AgriInno Challenge 2022

    Register here 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. The youth led-innovation solutions are selected for their standout entrepreneurship and promising potential for a positive impact on agrifood systems contributing to the Four Betters: better production, better nutrition, a better environment and a better life. This year there are 8 youth-led...
  • Digital Agriculture Forum 2022

    9 December | 9:00 -11:00 CET Register Now The Digital Agriculture Forum (DAF) 2022 will take place in virtual mode via Zoom on 9 December 2022, Friday . The DAF 2022, themed “Enabling Digital Transformation in Agriculture with Emerging Technologies”, is the third edition of the annual joint event...
  • Digital Agriculture Forum 2022 is open for registration!

    Digital Agriculture Forum 2022 9 December | 9:00 -11:00 CET Register Now The Digital Agriculture Forum (DAF) 2022 will take place in virtual mode via Zoom on 9 December 2022, Friday . The DAF 2022, themed “Enabling Digital Transformation in Agriculture with Emerging Technologies”, is the third edition of the annual joint event co-organized by FAO and Zhejiang University to host policy and technical discussions and share knowledge and good practices in the area of digital agriculture as well as digital innovation. Since 2019, the DAF has attracted over 600 participants from more than 80...
  • Invitation to apply for the Global AgriInno Challenge 2022

    The Global AgriInno Challenge 2022, co-organized by FAO and Zhejiang University as part of the MoU between these two entities; GAC is in its third edition after the great success in 2020 and 2021. The GAC 2022 aims to identify, accelerate, and scale up youth-led innovative business models and...
  • The Digital Agriculture and Innovation Hubs (DAIH) in Ethiopia roars to action

    The FMM DAIH hold a planning workshop in Adama, Ethiopia 23 September 2022 . Stakeholders in Ethiopia met to discuss the digital agriculture maturity in the country, and affirmed to work together to improve innovation and digital transformation of the agricultural sector. The affirmation was resolved at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)’s FMM workshop on Business Model, Partners Responsibility Mapping and Finalization of Work Plan to Establish the Digital Agriculture and Innovation Hubs (DAIH) held on the 22 and 23 September 2022 in Adama, Ethiopia. In his opening remarks, the State...
  • Grab the Chance to Grow Your Agrifood Business or Startup with FAO!

    The Food and Agriculture Organization is inviting all agrifood businesses and startups from the Pacific, Maldives and Timor-Leste to apply for the Agrifood accelerator 2022. All applications must be written in English and submitted by 15 October 2022 at 11:59pm (GMT+13). Join us in Apia, Samoa for the major regional accelerator of 2022! The Agrifood accelerator 2022 is an initiative by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Subregional Office for the Pacific Islands aiming to support and scale up solutions of existing agrifood startups, businesses, and social...
  • WSIS Prizes 2023 submission opens

    World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Prizes 2023 - Call for Submissions WSIS has announced the opening of the WSIS Prizes 2023 and they are encouraging all the stakeholders to SUBMIT their project descriptions to the WSIS Prizes contest from now before the 7th of December 2022. The e-Agriculture team encourages eligible projects in agriculture to submit their projects for this prestigious award. The contest is open to all stakeholders entities representing governments, private sector, international and regional institutions, civil society and academia. Each entity is allowed to...