The world’s ability to feed its growing — and increasingly hungry — population will depend on a culture of openness in research and data sharing, a debate on the future of agricultural research heard. Making agricultural data accessible is key to accelerating new...
In a recent message to the next generation, Kanayo F. Nwanze, CGIAR Special Representative to the UN Food Systems Summit 2021, calls for youth collaboration in transforming food systems. He mentions the Youth in Data initiatives, developed by the CGIAR Platform for...
In a recent webinar co-hosted by the Geospatial Data Commmunity of Practice and Radiant Earth on the topic of collecting and sharing ground-referenced data for ML applications, CGIAR researcher Dr. Kai Sonders revealed that approximately 20 percent of data collected...
Commercial microwave links are wireless connections which transfer data between mobile phone towers. These links are widely deployed, several tens of meters above the ground, by mobile phone providers all over the world. In recent years, efforts have been made by the...
The Community of Practice on Data-Driven Agronomy, a division of the agricultural research partnership CGIAR, launched a blog post contest on the typical practical challenges facing new technologies. Small entrepreneurs on the front lines of agritech were invited to...