A man weighing harvested orange-fleshed sweetpotato growing along the banks of the Brahmaputra River in Northern Bangladesh
Digitisation

The CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture has launched a new version of its agricultural data search engine, GARDIAN. The big data platform aims to harness big data capabilities to accelerate and enhance the impact…

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Digitisation

How do entrepreneurs view the prospects and challenges of digitisation? At the Economic Forum, which the German Agricultural Society (DLG e.V.) has co-organised in the context of the Global Forum for Food and Agriculture…

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Agriculture ministers from 74 states met at the GFFA.
Digitisation

In late January, the eleventh Global Forum for Food and Agriculture was held during the International Green Week in Berlin, Germany. This year, the opportunities and risks of digital transformation were on the agenda.

 

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Mobile services and smartphone apps, so-called m-services, can help to empower farmers with information and access to services and markets. But we should not neglect looking at their downsides. Strengthening farmers…

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Digitisation

Phones has led to a surge of mobile tools that allow users to access health, education and finance services. In agriculture, these tools can be used to obtain price data, weather reports and technical advice. While there…

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Digitisation

Information and communication technologies have seen rapid advances since the beginning of the millennium. While they hold a huge potential for rural areas, new Internet developments such as the “Internet of Things” and…

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Digitisation

Digital solutions can help to support farmers in their decision-making processes in order to achieve optimal farming systems of improved productivity while simultaneously minimising the use of resources and the impact to…

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Digitisation

Poor farming practices are among the numerous reasons for low productivity in sub-Saharan Africa. However, a major share of farmers only have limited access to information and knowledge, also owing to insufficient…

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Digitisation

It is a well-known fact that most of the farming operations in developing countries are small. This situation is unlikely to change anytime soon. How are such small farms going to benefit from digital technologies? Our…

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Digitisation

E-agriculture services are an important factor in unlocking the potential of agribusiness in Africa. And they offer huge opportunities for involving young people in the agricultural sector. CTA has developed numerous…

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