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Driving Financial Inclusion for Smallholder Farmers by Leveraging Satellite Data and Machine Learning
Globally, there are an estimated 500 million smallholder farmers -- and some 2.5 billion people living in smallholder farmer households -- who rely on agricultural production for their livelihood. These farmers feed 80% of the population in developing countries. By 2050 the world’s population is...
Posted by Meena Abedi on 21.11.2018
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Big Data Key to Unlocking Innovation in Agriculture for Future Food Security
Keynote address at the Global Forum for Innovations in Agriculture by André Laperrière , Executive Director, of the Global Open Data Initiative for Agriculture and Nutrition , GODAN and Pekka Pesonen, Secretary General, Copa - Cogeca 20th June 2018, Utrecht, Netherlands - The need for advancement...
Posted by Natasha Dsouza on 20.06.2018
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Join the East Africa Digital Farmers Conference
Kenya Agricultural & Livestock Research Organization and partners are organizing the East African Digital Farmers Conference. The conference will run from the 29 April to the 31st of May 2018, at the Kenya Agriculture & Livestock Research Organization (KALRO) grounds in Nairobi, Kenya . The...
Posted by Boniface Akuku on 28.05.2018
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Use of mobile phone in rural area for agriculture development.
In most developping countries, agriculture is the main source of the population’s income. Lack of acces to relevant informations leads to low yields, famers stress and low income. Nowadays Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have the potential to transform agriculture in rural area...
Posted by Yves Stephane NGALEU on 07.11.2017
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Youth, ICTs and Agriculture
Can ICTs make the youth stay in agriculture? FAO and partners established that rural youth are the future of food security, yet the challenge is that few young people see a future for themselves in agriculture or rural areas. A study published by FAO noted six principal challenges affecting youth...
Posted by Administrator e-Agriculture on 14.02.2017
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