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OUTLINE

1. Challenges in agriculture and the need of

innovations

2. E-agriculture

3. FAO-ITU E-agriculture strategy guide

4. E-agriculture and smallholder famers in Europe

and Central Asia; gender aspects

5. Mapping the need of e-agriculture strategies in

Europe and Central Asia

6. Conclusions

Source: UNEP 2011

CHALLENGES IN AGRICULTURE:

Agricultural production will need to increase by 60%

worldwide and double in the developing countries by 2050

80 percent of the global food production increase towards

the year 2050 should come from yield increases based on

the advancement of agricultural research, its application

and transmission to farmers through effective research-

extension linkages and creation of an “innovation

ecosystem”.


Arable Land

available for Food

Production

Why new technologies in agriculture?

Arable landCrop Yield decline

And more:

•Limited Water

resources- 40% less by

2050

•Biofuels

•Demands of emerging

economies

•Climate change


75% of the world’s poor are rural and most are involved in

farming.

90 % of all farms worldwide are family farms

Smallholders provide up to 80 percent of the food supply in

Asian and sub-Saharan Africa and consist 40-45% of EU farm

structure.

47% of the labour force in agriculture are women

In the 21st century, agriculture remains fundamental for poverty

reduction, economic growth and environmental sustainability

SMALL AGRICULTURAL HOLDINGS IN EU

End hunger, achieve food security and improved

nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture

1. END HUNGER BY 2030

2. END ALL FORMS OF MALNUTRITION BY 2030

3. DOUBLE THE AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION AND

INCOME OF SMALL-SCALE PRODUCERS BY 2030

4. MAKE PRODUCTION SYSTEMS SUSTAINABLE BY

2030

5. MAINTAIN GENETIC RESOURCES BY 2020

- INCREASED INVESTMENTS IN RESEARCH AND

INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION

- PREVENT TRADE RESTRICTIONS

- FOOD COMMODITY MARKETS

How to produce more with

less?

Change Of Agricultural Practices

Change Of Policies

Change In Agricultural Innovation

And Knowledge Systems

E-AGRICULTURE

ICTs have a role to play

in improving

farmers’ livelihoods

and in the fight

against hunger and

malnutrition

Solution-oriented and

demand-driven

Technologies alone are

not enough

Upscaling of

innovations

Strategies, markets,

legislation…

E-AGRICULTURE

AIMS – coordinating Agricultural Information Management

Standards

Agrovoc thesaurus

Agricultural metadata set

Linked open data- CIARD

Agris, AGORA etc

iMARK -Free e-learning courses on Information Management

and Knowledge Sharing

Good practices at FAO: Experience capitalization for

continuous learning

E-Agriculture Community of Practice (e-agriculture.org)

ICTs for Sustainable Production Intensification Innovation Lab

FAO INFORMATION MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES

G20, MEETING IN ANTALYA, 2015

Recommendation 4: Promoting ICTs for agricultural

development in International fora

G20 members, through their engagement in the World

Summit on the Information Society events can consider

to:

1. Emphasize agriculture as a key component of the digital

economy, and continue to support effective dialogue on

the transformational role of ICTs in agriculture, including

through concrete actions that foster reliable, inclusive

and affordable connectivity in rural arears and integrate

ICTs in agricultural and rural development policies and

institutions to support food security and hunger

eradication.

WHY E-AGRICULTURE STRATEGIES?

Many diverse, small scale e-Agriculture applications, unable to

communicate and share data

Duplication of efforts, leading to waste and inability to integrate solutions

Difficult for decision makers to understand the current agriculture

situation, for policy and planning

Communicaton tool for stakeholders, funding agencies, partners, etc.

Prioritize and maximize return on (limited) investments

Move to national deployments rather than pilots

Many issues (standards, legislations, evidence, infrastructure, capacity

development, etc.) can be better dealt with at national level

Can mainstream issues related to access of smallholder producers and

gender

WHY AN E-AGRICULTURE STRATEGY GUIDE

A guiding document to develop a national e-Agriculture

Strategy

Ministry of

Agriculture (MoA)

Ministry /

Regulator of IT/

Telecom

DoA/ NARS Telecom Service

Providers

IT PolicyAgriculture

Policy

National

e-Agriculture

Strategy

e-Agriculture

Strategy Guide

FAO REU E-AGRICULTURE ACTIVITIES

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CONCLUSIONS

• Potential of ICTs is huge

• National e-Agriculture

strategies are needed

• Regional integration is a trigger

for boosting ICT innovations and

strategy development

•More attention shall be paid to

smallholders, family farmers –

men and women

•Knowledge networks (Agroweb,

VERCON, e-Agriculture) can be

instrumental for CD hubs and as

entry points for e-Ag strategy

•More advocacy is needed

FAO REU E-AGRICULTURE ACTIVITIES

IN 2016

Publication on the e-agriculture status

of the regionExpert consultation, 22-24 June, Hungary

• e-government aspects

• smallholders and family farmers

• gender

Expert consultation, 7-9 December 2016,

Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

• Agricultural research

• Agricultural and rural extension systems

Development constraints of

Smallholders & family farmers in

Europe & Central Asia.

Opportunities &

Threats of

Smallholders in

Using ICT.

Recommendations to

improve the ICT

Opportunities.

Concrete actions

to be taken after

the expert

consultations.

Lack of statistical data

Experience low access to

loans. funds, resources &

farm inputs

Lack of knowledge and

Low income

Poor infrastructure

(sanitation)

Migration (push & pull

factors)

Increase awareness for group

presence.

The wider imbalance profit

making gap between the

farmer, middle men & banks.

Lack of adequate support in

agriculture education.

Lack of innovative ideas.

Enable

transparent

market

information.

Decrease the

time and & cost

for obtaining

weather

information.

Opportunity to

optimize

production

Threats:

Data validity,

security and

speculation

Access to financial

resources

One shop window

of permission

documents.

Understanding and

observing farmers

(complex decision

making in family

farming).

Multi stakeholder

for ICT including

universities.

Connecting

farmers directly to

consumers.

Update and

refine the

strategies.

Strengthen

networking.

Create agro

market sites.

Conduct an

analysis of

farmer behavior

for all attending

member

countries &

share results to

the e-agriculture

common

platform.

TRIPLE DIVIDE: DIGITAL, RURAL & GENDER

Barriers: Cultural, Social, Time, Financial & Control &

education.

Challenges: Content (harmonized to suit local context),

Gender & diversity, Access to infrastructure,

Participation (inclusiveness), right technology to the

right users, sustainability (Social, Economic &

Environment),

Solutions: Partnership, Sex disaggregated data, right to

information & open public access, public private

partnerships, user driven

Status of Implementation of e-Agriculture in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia: insights from

selected countries in the region

4+1 sub-

regions

of the

Europe

and

Central

Asia

region

have

been set

up

COUNTRY PROFILES

Textual description, data table, diagrams

Textual description

Agricultural characteristics

Highlighted indicators

Strategy development status

Remarks, recommendations

Data table

14 type of indicators

For regional comparison and diagrams used even more

indicators (xls link)

It is planned to annually update this regional ‚indicator

database’ and publish on AgroWebCEE,

http://www.agrowebcee.net/awhu/e-agriculture-strategy/



INDICATORS (29)

Key indicators (8)

World Bank: Population, GDP per capita, Agriculture, value added (%

of GDP)

FAO: Labor force in agriculture %, Land use %

Information and communication technologies key indicators (8)

ITU: Mobile phone subscriptions/100 pop, Individuals using Internet

%, Households with Internet access at home, Fixed broadband Internet

subs, Mobile broadband subs,

ICT environment / government (5) – ICT environment / business (8)

WEF Government Online Service Index, Importance of ICTs to

government vision,

WEF Network Readiness Index

WS Participant Rank by WEF NRI Index



KEY INDICATORS

INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION

TECHNOLOGIES KEY INDICATORS

ICT ENVIRONMENT / GOVERNMENT AND

BUSINESS

NATIONAL CONTEXT FOR E-AGRICULTURE DEVELOPMENT

Established ICT

environment

Emerging ICT

environment

Established

enabling

environment for

e-Agriculture

Emerging

enabling

environment

for e-

Agriculture

Experimentation

Early

adoption

Developing

and

Building up

Scaling up

Mainstreaming

Strengthening e-

Agriculture enabling

environment, create

foundations

Strengthening

infrastructure, make

the case for e-

Agriculture

Scaling-up and

integration, cost-

effectiveness,

policies for privacy,

security and

innovation

NOT ALL TECHNOLOGICAL SOLUTIONS ARE

INNOVATIONS

FARMERS’ NEEDS AND CAPACITIES ARE CORE;

PARTNERSHIP FOR SUSTAINABILITY

IF ACCEPTANCE AND ACCESS ISSUES ARE NOT

RESOLVED…

Instead of :

PRIORITIZING E-AGRICULTURE AT COUNTRY LEVEL IS

NEEDED

Resources, responsibilities, capacity development,

delivery systems

Solution offered by FAO:

Thank you !

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