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The Platform for Big Data and the digital future of CGIAR
The CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture is coming to the end of its cycle. Here are some important proof-points looking back over the Platform's start in 2017 ...

BIG DATA PLATFORM AND ONE CGIAR
Read about where BIG DATA's capabilities might appear within the new One CGIAR ...

Webinar – Digital innovations in agriculture
This webinar by the Geospatial Data Community of Practice presents four applications of digital innovations for index-based agricultural insurance products ...

New webpage featuring the most used ontologies in the agri-food domain
The Ontologies Community of Practice has developed a webpage providing at a glance the most popular ontologies in the agri-food domain along with the ontologies developed by CGIAR and its ...

Big data and agricultural research: Results of online survey for CAS Secretariat commissioned independent evaluation
The CGIAR Advisory Services Shared Secretariat (CAS Secretariat), in line with its mandate and 2021 workplan, commissioned an independent evaluation team of subject matter experts to evaluate the work of ...
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Grow more food and mitigate climate change? Agricultural soil data could help
A more comprehensive understanding of agricultural soils is needed to support sustainable development decision making - but collecting the necessary data is challenging.

Consuming information: Agriculture at the crossroads of sustainability
Extension officers, radio, and mobile phones remain crucial for the farmers to access and discover agricultural information.

Transdisciplinary thinking essential to enable sustainable data-intensive agroecosystems
Transdisciplinary thinking is a fundamental requirement if we are to take meaningful steps towards using big data to solve complex socio-environmental problems.

Meet Bob. The farmer needing your help to revolutionize agriculture
Farmers are contributing to the huge amounts of information that can be harnessed for global food security solutions. But they need good allies to ensure its full, and ethical, potential is reached.

For the rural farmer, does big data raise more questions than answers?
Does big data raise more questions than answers?

Big data needed for an agricultural boom
Big data in agriculture is instrumental not just for farmers who produce our food but for various stakeholders and along the agriculture value chain.
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Policy seminar: Digital technologies are crucial to transforming Africa’s food systems
A recent policy seminar brought together four speakers who addressed how new digital technologies and services are already making an ...
Connecting farmers to better information in Nepal
An Interactive Voice Response service is putting remote farmers in touch withwith a ‘world of information’ to improve livelihoods The ...
Scientists develop an early warning system that delivers wheat rust predictions directly to farmers’ phones
New research describes a revolutionary early warning system that can predict and mitigate wheat rust diseases in Ethiopia ...
UN-sponsored report acknowledges CIMMYT’s use of data and technologies to promote sustainable farming in Latin America
CIMMYT’s work featured on the Counting on the World to Act report, produced by SDSN and TReNDS. What to read ...