Access to data and digital technologies

  1. Farmers, market participation and open data
  2. Bringing technologies, information and knowledge to farmers in Africa
  3. Translational agriculture: data and knowledge needs to accelerate innovation and impact
  4. ASTI data and methods
  5. GCARD3 highlights for GODAN partners
    The Third Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development (GCARD3) took place on 5-8 April 2016 in Johannesburg.  The entire GCARD process including the final global event was led by the Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR) and the CGIAR, both GODAN partners, and the global…
  6. Foreign Affairs Magazine examines ICTs for Rural Development
    Right now, African leaders are making decisions that will determine the structure of the continent’s food system for a generation or more. Among these decisions are a host of investments in digital technology and policies about how it will be used to empower smallholder farmers and advance rural…
  7. GFAR, GODAN and CTA organize panel session on Open Data at GFIA
    The GFIA panel session, organised by GODAN (with GFAR and CTA), explored open data for agricultural innovation by linking different actors of the open data value chain together. The session was facilitated by Valeria Pesce of GFAR. Data on all aspects of agriculture increases every year. Yet often…
  8. Land Portal Foundation: Web & Linked Data Developer
    The Land Portal technology/ Open Data Developer will be a multi-skilled professional part of the Land Portal coordination Unit. He (she) will be tasked to (i) maintain and improve the Landportal infrastructures and services which includes Drupal, CKAN and Virtuoso; (ii) support the maintenance,…
  9. Full report of the first BigDataEurope workshop on “Big data for food, agriculture and forestry: opportunities and challenges”
    GFAR is participating in the H2020 "Big Data Europe" project together with FAO. On 22 September, the first BDE workshop on "Big data for food, agriculture and forestry: opportunities and challenges" took place and now the full report is available here: BDE-SC2-1st-workshop-Finalreport. Overall,…
  10. Setting up a Global Linked Data Catalog of Datasets for Agriculture
    The movement to share data has been on the rise in the last decade and lately in the agricultural domain. Similarly platforms for publishing scientific and sta-tistical datasets have sprouted and have improved visibility and availability of datasets. Yet there are still constraints in making…
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