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Driving Financial Inclusion for Smallholder Farmers by Leveraging Satellite Data and Machine Learning (recorded webinar)

15/09/2018

You are welcome to watch the recorded FAO e-Agriculture's and Harvesting's webinar on 'Driving Financial Inclusion for Smallholder Farmers by Leveraging Satellite Data and Machine Learning' RECORDING About this webinar There are an estimated 500 million smallholder farmers in the world. Only 7% have access to financing for inputs like improve seeds, ...

Register to B·Debate: Open Science: from values to practice. Building a roadmap for transformative change

14/09/2018

WHAT: B·Debate: Open science: from values to practice. Building a roadmap for transformative change. It is a joint initiative of Biocat and Obra Social “la Caixa”, is co-organized with the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), the University of Barcelona (UB), the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), the IrsiCaixa ...

FAIR data: What and Why? Easier said than implemented?

13/09/2018

(Image credit: Farm Data Train project that aims to connect agricultural data to make them more usable. It is a joint initiative of GODAN, CABI, Wageningen UR and DTL).In 2016, a Nature article "The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship" launched the FAIR concept.FAIR stands for ...

Apply by 5 November 2018 ! Free Open Data Management Online Course in Agriculture, Nutrition and Land

12/09/2018

The GODAN Action Team is pleased to announce a new call for applications for a free Open Data Management Online Course. Book your place now for the last chance to take the course before the end of the year!GODAN Action has been offering a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) ...

Find the DATA You need ... more easily with Google Dataset Search!

12/09/2018

  Data sets and related information tend to be spread across multiple data repositories on the web. Governments, scientific publishers, researchers, data providers (both individual providers and data repositories) publish data for fields ranging from agriculture and climate science, life science, social science to high-energy physics and more.  In many cases, ...