e-Agriculture Newsletter Issue #5, 2018
Focus on the new e-Agriculture website [Online version]
The e-Agriculture team launches the newly designed website which is now hosted under the FAO domain with a corporate look and feel. The new website maintains the core-services such as news, events, forum discussions, good practices on the use of ICTs and other capacity development activities such as webinars and short-paced self-learning activities.
The most important aspects of the e-Agriculture platform is to share news and stimulate and hold discussions in various aspects of the application and use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in ending hunger and malnutrition and also improving agricultural productivity.We invite you to visit our website and familiarize yourself with its features and functionalities.
e-Agriculture has a new Twitter handle
As part of the move to the FAO domain, we would to inform our users that we have a new Twitter handle @FAOeagriculture . Kindly re-tweet this to your networks.
Is your e-Agriculture profile up-to-date
In line with new e-Agriculture website changes we are inviting our users to log in into their profile and update their information.
Are you following e-Agriculture on Linkedin?
The e-Agriculture Community of Practice also has a presence on LinkedIn. Why not join our Linkedin Group and share with your colleagues and network directly your projects in ICTs.
E-Agriculture on agenda at FAO Regional Conference for Europe (ERC)
FAO Regional Conference for Europe (ERC)
AsThe e-Agriculture CommuThe 31st session of the FAO Regional conference (#ERC31) started in Voronezh, Russian Federation and on the conference opening day E-Agriculture was discussed in the plenary session focusing on ICTs for the development of sustainable and inclusive food systems and ICTs for trade integration for the region. Read more
Publication: Status of E-Agriculture Implementation in Central/Eastern Europe & Central Asia
FAO Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia published a status report on the E-Agriculture implementation within selected FAO member countries in the region. Read more
e-Agriculture Good and Promising Practices Published
Towards the end of 2017, the e-Agriculture Team announced a call for Good and Promising Practices in ICTs for Agriculture. We are pleased to inform that some good and promising practices have been published, and below we highlight just three.
e-Agriculture Good Practice - ZFU EcoFarmer Combo
ZFU EcoFarmer Combo is a bundle of services, including EcoFarmer Maize or Cattle Tips and Weather Indexed Insurance, ZFU Membership, and EcoSure Funeral Cover, which farmers can subscribe to. Read more
e-Agriculture Promising Practice FarmerLink
Grameen Foundation’s breakthrough FarmerLink program combines satellite data and farm data collected by mobile-equipped field agents to help coconut farmers in the Philippines,to increase productivity, deal with crop pests and diseases, and cope with extreme weather. Read more
e-Agriculture Promising Practice: UPTAKE
CABI and FRI’s Upscaling Technologies in Agriculture through Knowledge and Extension (UPTAKE) project uses SMS messages to increase awareness and adoption of agricultural technologies in maize value chains. The project seeks to strengthen the adoption of improved maize varieties. Read more
Upcoming events
- ICTforAg - This one-day conference will build on ICTforAg 2015, 2016, and 2017, bringing together 300 thought leaders and decision-makers in agriculture and technology from the international development community and the private sector.
Webinar on Talking Books for Audio-Based Agriculture Extension - This webinar will explain The Talking Book audio programme to share on-demand agricultural information with communities cut-off from traditional sources of information.
e-Forum Discussions on e-Agriculture
Join the E-Consultation on ethical, legal and policy aspects of open data affecting farmers
Global Open Data for Nutrition (GODAN), Global Forum on Agricultural Research and Innovation (GFAR), Technical Center for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) and Kuratorium für Technik und Bauwesen in der Landwirtschaft (KTBL) will hold an e-consultation on ethical, legal and policy aspects of open data affecting smallholder farmers from 4 to 8 June 2018. To participate click here