The Digital Villages Initiative (DVI) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is a corporate programme aiming to combat hunger, poverty and inequality by fostering digital rural...
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Kenya Digital Europa Thesaurus
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The report highlights challenges faced by the agricultural sector in Kenya, Ethiopia, and Zambia, including productivity issues and food security concerns due to factors such as limited inputs...
Climate change and extreme weather events are heightening levels of acute food insecurity and food crises around the world. As the world emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic and deals...
TRANSITIONS seeks to facilitate agroecological transitions that are informed by climate considerations among farmers in low- and medium-income countries (LMICs). This will be achieved by creating comprehensive...
CONTEXT
As a direct link between farmers and manufacturers of technologies, the characteristics and activities of input suppliers can be expected to play an important role in the generation and diffusion of...
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) launched an initiative to assess the existing impediments for scaling innovation and technology in food and agriculture (AgTech) and to identify options to improve...
Highlights
There are high hopes but little evidence concerning the potential of digital agriculture, i.e. regarding livestock
We take stock of digital livestock...
Mapping the spatial dimension of food insecurity using GIS-based indicators: A case of Western Kenya
Food insecurity elimination is a major focus of the Sustainable Development Goals and addresses one of the most pressing needs in developing countries. With the increasing incidence of food insecurity, poverty...
This publication on artificial intelligence (AI) for agriculture is the fifth in the E-agriculture in Action series, launched in 2016 and jointly produced by FAO and ITU. It aims to raise awareness about...
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Mechanization, digitalization, and youth are key to agri-food system transformation.
Little is known about local stakeholder perceptions on these contested topics.
This can...