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  • Agriculture for impact: for inclusive agricultural development in Africa

    Agriculture for Impact (A4I) was (2010- 2016) an independent advocacy initiative based at Imperial College London. A4I aimed to enable better European government support for productive, sustainable, equitable and resilient agricultural development in sub-Saharan Africa, focusing in particular on the needs of smallholder farmers._____________________________________________________________________________________________________By building and sharing evidence ...

  • How the Sustainable Development Goals will help us achieve Zero Hunger

    This essay focuses upon the issue of How the Sustainable Development Goals will help us achieve Zero Hunger which is discussed in the ‘2016 Global Hunger Index: Getting to Zero Hunger’ book published by IFPRI in 2016._____________________________________________________________________________________________________“795 million people are going hungry. We demand: Nobody should have to suffer from hunger!” (Hunger ...

  • AgriProfiles : Global Networking for Agriculture through metadata and standard vocabularies

    AgriProfiles is a search portal giving access to profiles of experts and organizations in the field of agriculture, bridging across separately hosted directories and online communities. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________AgriProfiles portal - formerly AgriVIVO (launched in 2013) - is led by the Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR), in collaboration with Cornell University and ...

  • BigDataEurope : Societal Challenge 2. FAO’s engagement, recent developments and steps forward

     The three-year (2015-2018) EU Horizon 2020 BigDataEurope (BDE) project aims to undertake foundational work to publish, manage, integrate, distribute and use of multi-lingual and semantically interoperable large-scale data assets and knowledge. The Food and Agriculture H2020 societal challenge of this project is tackled by FAO of the United Nations and Agroknow._____________________________________________________________________________________________________ ...

  • PPgis.net : exchange of information about geospatial information technologies

    PPgis.net is an open discussion forum that facilitates the exchange of information about geospatial information technologies (GIT) used in crisis management, participatory development, sustainable natural resource management and customary property rights in developing countries and among indigenous peoples worldwide._____________________________________________________________________________________________________The term Public Participation GIS (PPGIS) was coined at the ...