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The countdown is on to IGAD’s first pre-meeting of 2016

03/02/2016

Attendees are gearing up for the 7th RDA plenary meeting in Tokyo (RDA P7) at the beginning of March, and preparations are also underway for IGAD’s pre-meeting, set to take place before the plenary.Comprising a day and a half of intensive discussion (28-29th February at the University ...

How digital products are fixing problems in agriculture

03/02/2016

William Warshauer’s article “How digital is solving 3 problems in agriculture” was published on World Economic Forum in January 2016. It is about some effects of  “fourth industrial revolution” that looks like for increasing numbers of the world’s smallholder farmers. A variety of new digital applications are now accelerating interventions ...

Geospatial Ontology Of Agricultural Regions: An Exercise In Knowledge Engineering. A new article!

02/02/2016

The article offers an overview discussion of the geospatial ontology and history of agriculture regions. Afterwards it presents some methods for geospatial ontology development with focus on  globally distributed agricultural regions. This ontology may be useful for governing bodies in environmental monitoring or environmental decision-making on a national scale.The ...

Open Data in Global Environmental Research: The Belmont Forum’s Open Data Survey

01/02/2016

The findings of the Belmont Forum’s survey on Open Data – published on PLOS ONE - demonstrate a substantial uptake of data sharing through e-infrastructures and a further need for enhancement and consolidation. 98% of respondents claimed publishing of open data to be important in their community to advance research!The ...

Can big data be used for addressing food security? The CGIAR approach

29/01/2016

By 2030, the CGIAR wants its action to result in 150 million fewer hungry people, 100 million fewer poor people – at least 50% of whom are women and 190 million ha less degraded land (source: CGIAR website). For this to happen, CGIAR has mobilized a tremendous amount of money from their donors to achieve it. ...