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Digital Agriculture: Trends and Challenges
The presentation discusses digital agriculture trends and challenges in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals related to food security and malnutrition, highlighting the paradox of food production and hunger. It outlines the need for digital technologies and strategies in agriculture to overcome challenges such as gender inequality, land degradation, and climate impacts. The National E-Agriculture Strategy is introduced as a comprehensive framework aimed at developing sustainable ICT solutions for the agriculture sector through multi-stakeholder consultation.
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- 1. Presentation for RNE 8Dec 2019 Cairo, Egypt Digital Agriculture Trends & Challenges
- 2. SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS 17Goals. 169 targets to achieve in less than 12 years!
- 3. AGRICULTURE & FOODSECURITY There is more than enough food produced today to feed everyone in the world, yet more than 820 million are chronically hungry (FAO SOFI 2019). One in nine people on the planet still suffer from hunger Globally, around 14% of food produced is lost from the post-harvest stage Women make up almost half the agricultural workforce, but they own less land and lack access to resources. A third of farmland is degraded, up to 75 percent of crop genetic diversity has been lost and 22 percent of animal breeds are at risk. Average age of farmers is increasing Rising instances of obesity and malnutrition Multiple burden of malnutrition despite decades of economic growth. Increasingly impacted by climatic shocks ©news.sol.org.tr Changing demographics and dietary patterns
- 4. A MORE CONNECTEDFUTURE 3D food printing Connected Cow Drones & GIS Source: ITU 50 Billion connected devices by 2020 – CISCO Broadband is increasingly mobile & more affordable - ITU
- 5. DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES INAGRICULTURE Artificial Intelligence
- 6. ROLE OF ICTsIN AGRICULTURE
- 7. Source: FAO-ITU E-agricultureStrategy Guide
- 8. - Infrastructure - Interoperability -Reliable Data - Data sharing/ privacy - Policies & Regulations - Digital Literacy - Gender-Digital Divide - Data Analytics - Capacity Development - Support to Innovations ADDRESSING KEY BUILDING BLOCKS
- 9. E-AGRICULTURE STRATEGY GUIDEFAO-ITU Downloadfrom (English) - http://www.fao.org/3/a-i5564e.pdf This framework is used to assist countries to identify, design and develop sustainable ICT solutions/services to overcome challenges faced in agriculture or to accelerate achieving national agricultural goals. In Russian
- 10. DEVELOPING NATIONAL E-AGRICULTURESTRATEGY National E-agriculture Strategy Is a comprehensive framework to develop sustainable e-agriculture services and solutions National E-agriculture Strategy Ministry of Agriculture Ministry of Industry and Technology Department of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries, Forestry Department of Telecom, IT, telecom regulator, e- Gov agency Agriculture Policy IT/Digital or e-Gov Policy
- 11. DEVELOPING THE NATIONALE-AGRICULTURE STRATEGY The National E-agriculture Strategy is an output of a comprehensive multi-stakeholder consultative process.
- 12. FAO-ITU technical assistanceto countries in developing their NATIONAL E-AGRICULTURE STRATEGY Asia-Pacific • Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Lao PDR ICT masterplan, Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Mongolia. • Myanmar’s agriculture extension modernization strategy Europe and Central Asia • Armenia, Hungary, Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo* (KPF), North Macedonia, and Kazakhstan. • Turkey • Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan (requests) Others • Caribbean sub-regional strategy
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