
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.
The platform builds capacity throughout CGIAR to generate and manage big data, assisting CGIAR and its partners’ efforts to comply with open access / open data principles to unlock important research and datasets.
Find out more about CGIAR’s Open Access Policy, ratified in late 2013 by all 15 CGIAR Research Centers.
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The Platform develops ambitious external partnerships and convenes an annual big data in agriculture convention. It builds capacity internally and externally on big data approaches in agriculture through communities of practice that will encourage interaction and further engage a range of actors to produce new ideas to solve development problems.
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The Platform demonstrates the power of CGIAR big data analytics through “Inspire” projects that solve development challenges at the core of our mission.
by Guest Contributor | Apr 16, 2018 | Application & Use, Blog Competition
Extension officers, radio, and mobile phones remain crucial for the farmers to access and discover agricultural information.
by Guest Contributor | Apr 16, 2018 | Application & Use, Blog Competition
Transdisciplinary thinking is a fundamental requirement if we are to take meaningful steps towards using big data to solve complex socio-environmental problems.
by Guest Contributor | Apr 12, 2018 | Application & Use, Blog Competition
Does big data raise more questions than answers?
by Guest Contributor | Apr 12, 2018 | Application & Use, Blog Competition
Big data can help smallholders can become agriculture’s big players.
by Guest Contributor | Apr 11, 2018 | Application & Use, Blog Competition
To achieve food and nutritional security, for present and future generations, an agricultural transformation is not only required. It is vital.
by Guest Contributor | Mar 29, 2018 | Application & Use, Blog Competition, Innovation
Although data is important for all players in the value chain, the primary end-users are the farmers and they are the most novice players in the big data approach, particularly those in developing countries.