8 food security implications of the COVID-19 crisis
From disrupting agricultural input supply chains to carving out new crisis response roles for social media, the pandemic’s impacts on the state Read more...
CGIAR’s Inspire Challenge Awards Over US$ 1 million to Big Data Innovations
Over US$ 1 million worth of grants were awarded to eight winners of the Inspire Challenge during CGIAR’s 2019 BIG DATA convention Read more...
Building trust is key for Big Data to deliver benefits to farmers
More than 650 policymakers, agriculture researchers and data experts met to discuss how building trust is key to securing the benefits of Read more...
Building institutional capacity for data-informed decisions
Data collection, curation and quality maintenance are the stepping stones towards data-driven solutions. The availability of datasets improves decision making and guides Read more...
Drones fly in to change the way we work in research fields
Data collection in agriculture research fields is all set to become cheaper, rapid and more precise with the foray of drones. Worldwide, Read more...
Global initiative to harness the power of big data for smallholder farmers
A new multimillion-dollar initiative is poised to disrupt food production across the developing world – to make it more productive, efficient and Read more...