Digital agriculture is the application of digital tools and business models integrated with digital technologies across the agricultural-food (agri-food) chain.
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Deployment of Agricultural Digitalization in Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines
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You can listen to this 5-minute mini-podcast (in English) here.
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Geoengineering comprises a set of technologies that include interventions on land, in the oceans, or in the atmosphere.
Geoengineering – the large-scale and intentional technological manipulation of the planet’s climate – is creeping onto the agenda and into the processes of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) despite multiple concerns about potential environmental and social impacts
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Under the radar of many people and governments, several risky geoengineering techniques are being considered at UN climate negotiations. Most are speculative technologies that could cause even more climate chaos and function as a costly distraction from real solutions.
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Food Barons 2022, names and ranks the largest food corporations dominating each link of the 8-10 trillion dollar commercial industrial food chain.
New report online at: https://etcgroup.org/content/food-barons-2022
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Indigenous and Global South communities are biodiversity experts, not Silicon Valley
With Global Biodiversity Framework negotiations about to wrap up in Nairobi this article was drafted to address some of the broader narratives that shape issues like horizon scanning, ‘30 by 30’ and technology assessment negotiations within the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).
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A critical approach to the digitalisation of food systems - What’s there to know? Introductory teach-ins
These recorded webinars (held on 29 & 30 June 2022) provide an introduction to the digitalisation of food systems from seed to stomach (also known as the 4.0 revolution in food and agriculture).
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Explaining competing claims of 70% vs. 30% and why it matters
A debate has emerged as to what proportion of the global food supply is produced by small-scale food producers - one that may have big implications for policy-making addressing hunger.
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The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has bumbled into a controversy over whether peasants or agribusiness feed most of the world.
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