March 2018 Blogs

Smallholder farmers constitute the bulk of the global farmers , about 90% of the worlds farms are owned and operated by families and most live in rural areas. Yet most of these are affected by the effects of climate change, funding crisis, drought and other factors inhibiting agriculture. In fact,...

In celebrating the "International Women's Day' (IWD 2018) FAO, IFAD and WFP have organized this year’s annual event on how media and ICT can empower rural women and girls to transform their lives. During this day's celebrations, a new publication, " GENDER AND ICTs : Mainstreaming gender in the use...

January 2018, Mutasa, Zimbabwe Linda Mungira, a mother of four children and smallholder farmer in Mutasa, a district in eastern Zimbabwe, walks slowly towards her chicken coup at the edge of her residence next to her toilet facility on her modest rural homestead. She takes with her a woven basket...

The Asia-Pacific Federation for Information Technology in Agriculture (AFITA) announces the upcoming conference which will focus on precision agriculture. This year in October 2018, AFITA/WCCA2018 is going to be co-located with World Congress on Computers in Agriculture (WCCA). As stated on our...