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VIDEO: Q&A with Inspire Challenge winner: Revealing informal food flows through free WiFi
Live Q&A with Louis Reymondin, scientist at the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT and team leader of the 2019 Inspire Challenge project "Revealing informal food flows through free WiFi."
FAIR is the new Open when it comes to big data
When we talk about big data, it's important to remember that bigger is not always better and open is not always enough.
Harnessing telecommunications network data for rainfall monitoring in developing countries
Filling a key information gap can make it easier to provide insurance to smallholders.
Meet the 2019 Inspire Challenge winners selected at BIG DATA Convention
Now in its third year, the BIG DATA Platform’s Inspire Challenge has invested more than two million USD in innovative big data projects that seek to solve agricultural development issues.
More than one million USD awarded to innovative projects using big agricultural data
More than one million USD in grants was awarded to eight Inspire Challenge projects that leverage CGIAR data to solve agriculture development challenges.
Open big data to help farmers weather climate change
aWhere and the CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture announce open access to maps for economic resilience.
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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 ...