Development of a Climate Forcing Observation System for Africa: Data-Related Considerations In the case of the African continent, the estimates of most climate forcing components are associated with large uncertainties, above all the greenhouse gas budget. The EU-funded SEACRIFOG project is designing an observation network which aims at reducing these ...

GODAN webinar "Turning Data into Insight" For those of you who could not assist last week to the GODAN Webinar: Turning Data into Insight, we are now able to present you with the recording of the webinar.  This talk presented an overview of the Big Data Platform and the GARDIAN ...

The Food and Agriculture Organization launched the Food and Agriculture Microdata (FAM) catalogue, this new tool provides an inventory of datasets collected through farm and household surveys which contain information related to agriculture, food security,  and nutrition. As of July 2019, the FAM contains more than 350 datasets with unit-level information on ...

GODAN Webinar: Turning Data into Insight Join the webinar on 19 September, 2019 at 4:00 PM CEST. Register at  https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/9142348326997509132 Big data and machine learning technologies represent an unprecedented opportunity to reduce food insecurity and poverty and maximize return on investment in development efforts and funds. However, leveraging such ...

Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) and Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations together with the Pan African Farmers’ Organisation (PAFO) are pleased to call for applications for a new online course “Farm Data Management, Sharing and Services for Agriculture Development”. There is an exponential growth ...