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Global Consultation on Innovative ICT

Global Consultation on Innovative ICT and Knowledge Sharing

The global consultation on Innovative ICT and Knowledge Sharing Platforms for Revitalizing Agricultural Extension and Education: Opportunities and Challenges was organized on 3-4 December 2012 by a global team led by the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT...
Promoting interactivity

Promoting interactivity through radio and ICTs

Source: ICT Update by Josh Woodard & Dominic Otieno Omolo    ICTs can help researchers to interact with farmers. The challenge lies in finding a way of integrating traditional and new communication technologies such as mobile phone, radio and video services to...
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GCARD2. Breakout session C1.3 North-South and South-South Collaborative Actions – Speaker Brief - CORAF/CIRAD and IRD collaborative research platforms in West and Central Africa

This presentation is under the aegis of the West and Central African Council for Agricultural Research and Development (CORAF/WECARD). It presents the example of the concrete achievements implemented by two institutions, IRD and CIRAD, which contribute significantly to partnership research...
FAO country profiles

GFAR events embedded into the FAO Country Profiles

The FAO Country Profiles information system (http://www.fao.org/countryprofiles) is an information retrieval tool which groups FAO and partner organizations' archives of information in agriculture and development in a single area and groups it and presents it by country. The FAO...
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Training Workshop on Coherence in Information for Agricultural Research for Development (CIARD) and Strengthening RAIS in the SAARC Countries

A Training Workshop on Coherence in Information for Agricultural Research for Development (CIARD) and Strengthening RAIS in the SAARC Countries was organized jointly by SAARC Agriculture Centre (SAC), APAARI, Bangladesh Agricultural Research Council (BARC), FAO and GFAR at SAC, BARC Campus in Dhaka...
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ICTs and Agricultural Research: Some observations from recent meetings

Science Forum 2009  The Workshop on ICTs Transforming Agricultural Science, Research and Technology Generation organized by GFAR during the Science Forum 2009 concluded that by investing in ICTs, more participatory, collaborative, creative and “impactful” agricultural science...