Posts on the Topic "agribusiness"
14/ 11
2018
Successes and Lessons: Scaling Financial Services to Kenya’s Smallholder Farmers
Nairobi, Kiribati 14/11/2018
A one-size-fits-all approach to agricultural finance and insufficient resources make it difficult for smallholder farmers to become profitable, despite the pivotal role they play in agricultural production.
Over the last four years, Grameen Foundation and Musoni Microfinance Kenya have built a successful digital lending platform that has provided millions in funding to help farmers improve their productivity.
Digital Inclusion through mobile connectivity
06/11/2018
Can mobile money transform women's lives? The digital revolution has spread in many developing countries and mobile telephony is readily available and has penetrated areas not yet reached by other prior inventions. In Africa for example, the mobile adaption has grown in recent years and in 2017...
WFP and Alibaba enter into a partnership towards a World with Zero Hunger
05/11/2018
The partnership will support efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2 – a world with zero hunger. Alibaba and The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) have entered into a strategic partnership to achieve a world with zero hunger – which is Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2...
Call for Registrations : GODAN Action Training - Open Data in Agriculture
26/09/2018
Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) and its GODAN Action partners in collaboration with Agricultural Data Interest Group (IGAD) are pleased to announce an Open Data in Agriculture Workshop to be held during International Data Week in Gaborone, Botswana on 6 November 2018...
FAO’s regional expert consultation on knowledge sharing for agricultural innovations
14/09/2018
An expert FAO consultation was held in Hungary on the 10th to the 13th of September 2018 on knowledge sharing for agricultural innovations applicable for smallholder and family farmers in Europe and Central Asia. This comes after two major calls for FAO to support Agricultural Innovations Systems...
New Publication: Emerging Opportunities for the Application of Blockchain in the Agri-food Industry
31/08/2018
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) have published a new book on the application of Blockchain in the Agri-food industry. The publication comes after the spread of Blockchains application in a number of industries and...
Youth Employment in Agriculture as a Solid Solution to ending Hunger and Poverty in Africa Conferences starts
20/08/2018
Youth Employment in Agriculture as a Solid Solution to ending Hunger and Poverty in Africa conference started on a high note in Kigali, Uganda with key participation from the government of Rwanda, African Union (AU) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). The conference brings a number of...24/ 06
2018
27/ 06
2018
14th International Conference on Precision Agriculture
Montreal, Canada 24/06/2018 – 27/06/2018
The 14th International Conference on Precision Agriculture is being held in Montreal, QC Canada and is organised by the International Society of Precision Agriculture (ISPA) which is a non-profit professional scientific organization.
Big Data Key to Unlocking Innovation in Agriculture for Future Food Security
20/06/2018
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 of...