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Transforming satellite data for smallholders

ICT Update spoke to Remco Dost, senior project manager at eLEAF, about the company's work, what it does with the raw data it sources from satellites and what role it is playing in the Market-led, User-owned ICT4Ag-enabled Information Service (MUIIS).

Peer-learning in climate-smart agriculture

Climate change and its impacts on smallholder farmers in developing countries is a topical issue. As such, peer-learning in climate-smart agriculture (CSA) gives stakeholders an equal chance to address this challenge in their contexts and at their pa…

AFDB approves $280m to support Nigerian youths in agriculture

The President of the African Development Bank (AFDB), Dr Akinwumi Adesina, says the $280 million approved by the bank would be used to encourage Nigerian youths to go into agro-business. Adesina, represented by Dr Chiji Ojukwu, a Director in AFDB, st…

Multiple uses: opportunities and challenges

Is data-driven farming the future of ACP agriculture? The short answer is it depends… It may well be, but different areas of agriculture are benefiting in very different ways.

Satellites and mobile phones improve crop productivity in Sudan

Using satellite data and mobile phones, an innovative project funded by CTA has helped farmers in the Gezira irrigation scheme, Sudan, to more than quadruple their wheat yields while conserving water and other key inputs.

2 Results in projects and events

Feb 19

FAO Regional Conference for Africa

Monday, 19 February 2018 – Saturday, 24 February 2018

The FAO Regional Conference for Africa (ARC) is held once every two years, in the years in which the FAO General Conference does not meet in regular session. The attendance of the Regional Conference is usually at Ministers of Agriculture level. Observers from countries outside the Region, international, regional and Arab Organizations, are also invited to the Conference.

Location:

Khartoum, Sudan

Oct 31

3D Modelling exercise (P3DM) in Darfur

Saturday, 31 October 2015 – Friday, 20 November 2015

CTA is collaborating with UNEP in the Wadi el Ku catchment management project for livelihoods development and sustainable peace in Sudan.The activity will take place in Darfur and is nestled into an existing EU-funded (UNEP – administered) 8.4M USD project. The…