Agriculture

Building the Future of Sustainable Agriculture with AgLivingLabs

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Testing, Innovating & Educating with AgLivingLabs  Inspired by regenerative agriculture techniques, advancements in digital agriculture, and unique contexts of African agriculture, AgLivingLabs is bringing together people, technology, and natural resources to build a thriving agroecosystem rooted in science, community, and progress.  In 2024, AgLivingLabs launched at AusQuest Farm to merge, test, and scale innovative practices … Read more

Localizing Impact with Hybrid Events: Learning from ICTforAg

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This year at ICTforAg 2024, we were eager to show that distance is no barrier to impact, learning and collaboration. We brought together over 3,000 people – across participants and speakers in five in-person cities and over 100 countries virtually – made the knowledge that was shared openly accessible online, grew a platform for ongoing … Read more

Modern Food Systems: Role of Digital and Regenerative Agriculture

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Agricultural practices and food systems play a major role in many pressing challenges, including climate change, nutritional security, and ensuring sustainable livelihoods for Africa’s rapidly growing population. Many long-standing agricultural practices compete with natural environments, deteriorate soils and habitats, reduce biodiversity, and affect water supply and quality–much of which has led to degradation of Africa’s … Read more

ICTforAg 2020: The Success of Virtual Conferencing & Event Management

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In the wake of COVID-19, virtual platforms have allowed for a drastic re-imagining of global conferences in agriculture. ICTforAg, Thrive Africa, the CGIAR Big Data in Agriculture Convention, and many others went virtual in 2020. As our DevGlobal team planned for the 2020 ICTforAg conference with USAID and DAI, a virtual event was the only … Read more