Tag: technology
Three Ways to Help Tech-Savvy Youth Transform Agriculture
Global: Global agriculture needs to be revamped to enable tech-savvy youth become successful agripreneurs focused on maximising food production.
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Ensuring Crop Science Serves Smallholders: A Conversation with Joe Cornelius
Africa & Middle East: As Gates Ag One formally announces the opening of its headquarters, Farming First spoke with CEO Joe Cornelius about the organisation's mission.
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More for Less: Preserving Water in Agriculture
Global: With the global population on the rise, sustainable water management is critical to produce more food with less water.
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Technology and Talent Are Key to China’s Agricultural Modernisation Drive
Asia: Technology and talent has the potential to intensify agricultural production in China.
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Building Sustainable and Resilient Agri-Food Systems Tops Agenda at AGRF Summit
Africa & Middle East: Actions to create resilient and sustainable food systems in Africa to increase food security and incomes, underpinned discussions at this year’s Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRF) Summit.
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Seed Giants Must Collaborate or Be Dwarfed By Threat of Climate Change
Global: Failure to collaborate will ultimately result in unsustainable food systems, which not only renders seed companies obsolete but threatens a prerequisite of civilization: food security.
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How Peer-to-Peer Learning Helps Farmers Adopt New Technologies
Europe: Peer-to-peer learning can help to overcome the slow adoption of farming technologies.
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The Role of Engineering in Ending World Hunger
Global: The role engineering plays in advancing the Sustainable Development Goals.
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Three Ways to Make Technology Inclusive for Smallholder Farmers
Europe: Technology can be used to make farming more inclusive, through three critical factors: setting targets, working with local partners and keeping the end-user in mind.
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How Science is Helping Farmers Stop the Relentless March of Pests
Northern America: Technology and science can help to meet one of the greatest threats to a farmer’s crops – pests and disease.
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Video: Feeding India with Finite Resources
Asia: We ask an Indian farmer what he sees as the way forward to feeding India's one billion plus population with dwindling resources.
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What is the Role of Agricultural Technologies for Global Food Security?
Global: A wealth of technologies is now at our disposal for boosting yields of the world’s key staple crops, in order to face the large demands on our food supplies by 2050. But how can we measure which ones will be most effective, when, and where? Which combinations of technologies will have the largest impact? Until […]
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