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Best of 2020: Favorite highlights
The BIG DATA team is signing off this year with a list of some of our favorite 2020 achievements -- along with an accompanying soundtrack! ...
With IVR messages, mobile phones become game changers in farmers’ hands
A multi-stakeholder partnership to explore alternative pathways for disseminating agricultural extension messages shows promising direction for IVR use ...
CGIAR virtual conference closed with concert to audience of 500 staple food crops
“The CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture wanted to highlight the key role that plants play in sustaining our food systems, lives, and, in this case, our audience seats.” ...
CGIAR awards Inspire Challenge winners 700K to respond to food system crises
The fourth cohort of Inspire Challenge winners, innovative projects using big data for agricultural development and research, were awarded USD 100,000 each at the 2020 virtual CGIAR Convention on Big ...
Food systems for times of crisis: upcoming conference shares how big data can help
Innovations in digital tools and technologies, particularly ‘big data’ collection and management, provide fresh opportunities to(re)build systems and address food security issues more effectively across the globe ...
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2020 Convention session – Human-centered Design and Gender
This session on human-centered design and gender aired live at the virtual 2020 CGIAR Convention on Big Data in Agriculture.
2020 Convention session – Non-traditional Big Data for Women’s Empowerment
This session on non-traditional big data sources for women's empowerment aired live at the virtual 2020 CGIAR Convention on Big Data in Agriculture.
2020 Convention session – Gender Data: Knowledge Gaps, Research Protocols & Improving Data Systems
This session on gender data aired live at the virtual 2020 CGIAR Convention on Big Data in Agriculture.
CGIAR awards Inspire Challenge winners 700K to respond to food system crises
The fourth cohort of Inspire Challenge winners, innovative projects using big data for agricultural development and research, were awarded USD 100,000 each at the 2020 virtual CGIAR Convention on Big Data in Agriculture.
Why was there no COVID-19 “food system collapse”?
Farmers step up to the challenge of accelerating the digitalization of global food systems
How digital dynamism can transform post-COVID food systems
Big data experts ‘fall in love with the problem’ by exploring new technologies.
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Youth in Data
Can livestock development be ethical and sustainable? A student looks for the facts
This is one of a series of blogs written by our Youth in Data delegates who participated in the 2020 CGIAR Convention on Big Data in Agriculture. The global event was held virtually 19-23 October, 2020.
Youth can be helpful allies in the collection of quality data to scale for modeling
This is one of a series of blogs written by our Youth in Data delegates who participated in the 2020 CGIAR Convention on Big Data in Agriculture. The global event was held virtually 19-23 October, 2020.
The Importance of Livestock in Creating Sustainable and Equitable Food Systems
This is one of a series of blogs written by our Youth in Data delegates who participated in the 2020 CGIAR Convention on Big Data in Agriculture. The global event was held virtually 19-23 October, 2020.
2020 Youth in Data Video Interview – Adekoya Femi and Ram Dhulipala
2020 Youth in Data Delegate Adekoya Femi interviews Ram Dhulipala, Leader of the Digital Agriculture Theme at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), as part of the 2020 Youth in Data Digital workshop which took place alongside the virtual CGIAR Convention on Big Data in Agriculture.
2020 Youth in Data Video Interview – Adekoya Femi and Daniel Jiménez
2020 Youth in Data Delegate Adekoya Femi interviews Dr. Daniel Jiménez, Scientist and Leader Community of Practice Data-Driven Agronomy at the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT, as part of the 2020 Youth in Data Digital workshop which took place alongside the virtual CGIAR Convention on Big Data in Agriculture.
2020 Youth in Data Video Interview – Meghana Rangaraju Sai and Ajay Kumar Tannirkulam
2020 Youth in Data Delegate Meghana Rangaraju Sai interviews Ajay Kumar Tannirkulam, 2020 Inspire Challenge Finalist– FarmPhone for Sustaining Incomes & Market Access, as part of the 2020 Youth in Data Digital workshop which took place alongside the virtual CGIAR Convention on Big Data in Agriculture.
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