M. Saud Al Farsi
FAO Oman Office
FAO Oman Office
What are the potential entry points for government to address challenges and foster the development of digital agriculture?
How can the establishment of the Digital Council address the numerous barriers to adoption of these technologies?
Do you think that the roles identified for the Digital Council are suitable for facing the agrifood systems challenges outlined above?
In addition to the CN for this section: I think through modeling (SWAT), we have to add (Policy & Alternative for a certain crop production in a certain region) in order to increase agricultural production and productivity.
What governance structure should be in place in order for the Council to serve its purpose?
Director
Executive Council International Coordinator
Advisory Committee
Secretariat
Policy Maker Technical staff (modeling & mapping) Data analyzer
In my opinion, before we start any action or comments or discussion for the gender equality in relation with sustainable soil management (SSM), we have to consider the following issues:
What is the relation between sustainable soil use, management and conservation and gender equality?
Because sustainable soil management (SSM) is related to soil and agricultural extension graduate. So, to get or to find and justified this relation we have to specify and evaluate the education type and level in the countries.
What are the distinct roles for women, men, boys and girls in sustainable soil management?
Women: can play a great role in agriculture extension by convincing each other in any issue related to SSM.
Men: can play implement and demonstrate the issue related to SSM.
Boy & girls: can play a role during any rural activities related to SSM.
What are the main gender-based constraints?
What practical solutions and approaches could help overcoming such barriers?
How can the promotion of gender equality and women’s empowerment contribute to sustainable soil management and conservation?
Which interventions at policy and project/field level are of utmost priority?
M. Saud Al Farsi
Towards improved reporting on primary forests
1. Is the FAO definition on primary forest (FAO, 2018) adequate to your national/regional/global assessment and reporting purposes? If not, what criteria would you like to add/remove from the FAO definition?
We have to include (add) the following topics in the definition:
2. Is the background paper missing any major issues? If yes, please specify.
Yes
In the section of Measuring primary forest (line 299), I prefer to classify the forest based on using hyperspectral satellite images (250 bands) and creating a spectral finger print for each and every species (trees, bushes …etc.) in the forest. This will be very helpful for local, regional and global level forest modeling prediction, monitoring, and change detection of the primary forest.
3. Which methodology and data, if any, do you use to assess primary forest area and its changes?
4. Which methodological changes would be needed to improve reporting on primary forest area and its changes at national, regional and global levels, with particular emphasis on improving consistency among countries?
5. How can FAO help countries improve their reporting on primary forest?