News Archives:
December 29, 2021
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.
December 28, 2021
This webinar by the Geospatial Data Community of Practice presents four applications of digital innovations for index-based agricultural insurance products.
December 3, 2021
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 partners.
November 23, 2021
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 the Platform between 2017 and mid-2021. While the evaluation is still ongoing, some preliminary survey results are already available to share.
May 27, 2021
A CGIAR Inspire Challenge Rapid Response Grant project survey of more than 1,000 men and women farmers in Odisha, India finds disparate gender dynamics in demand for and decision-making around agricultural credit.
December 23, 2020
The BIG DATA team is signing off this year with a list of some of our favorite 2020 achievements — along with an accompanying soundtrack!