Access to data and digital technologies

  1. Australian Society of Information and Communication Technologies in Agriculture
  2. Interview with Keron Bascombe, representative of Youth
    Watch this interview with Keron Bascombe, representative of the Youth Constituency at the local level in the GFAR Steering Committee. During the recent meeting of the Steering Committee on 8-9 February 2017, Keron stressed the need to overcome the limitations that smaller organizations can face by…
  3. Mukono District NGO Forum
  4. Open Access India
    The ‘Open Access India,‘ is a community of practice advocating Open Access, Open data, Open education in India since 2011. Now as a part of its objective, ‘development of community e-infrastructure for Open Access’ is proposing AgriXiv, a preprints repository for Agriculture with the support of…
  5. FAOSTAT offers more, better and easier-to-access data on key agricultural indicators
    Biotechnology and drones may be the most visible innovation areas in the world of agriculture, but spare a thought for new approaches to data dissemination. Data - costly to produce and often complex to communicate - is the key decision-support tool for policy makers engaged in concrete action.…
  6. BigDataEurope: Second Community Workshop for Societal Challenge 2 – Food and Agriculture
    GFAR is participating together with FAO in the H2020 project “Big Data Europe: Integrating Big Data, Software & Communities for Addressing Europe’s Societal Challenges” (BDE). BDE will provide support mechanisms for all the major aspects of a data value chain, in terms of the employed data and…
  7. How Farmerline's Mergdata is benefitting companies
    The explosive growth in the availability of mobile phones around the continent is increasingly leading many businesses to explore how these devices should be used efficiently to expand their revenue base. And for most of these businesses, having an innovative mobile messaging web platform is a…
  8. Farmerline among CTA Top 20 Innovations that benefit smallholder farmers
    This September, Farmerline was selected, by The Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA), as one of the top 20 innovations benefiting smallholder farmers.The CTA Top 20 Innovations that were selected from among the 251 submissions that had been received from 49 countries…
  9. Empowering Ghana's Smallholder Farmers - How Farmerline's workshops are boosting yields and increasing incomes of farmers
    In spite of abundant modern technologies and ICTs available for use in increasing information access and agricultural productivity, most Ghanaian smallholder farmers who constitute the majority in the agricultural sector do not have access to these new innovations. The result has been a failure to…
  10. Improving the economic lives of smallholder farmers
    Demand for the farmers' crops keep increasing. Yet supply remains low. Prices of crops in urban areas have gone up. Yet farmers in the rural part have very little income to show for it. This plight of the smallholder farmer, which is evident from the fact that even though what they grow is the…
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