Digital for impact - Transforming lives through digitalization
Channel: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Date: 12/01/2023

Data, technology and innovation are key to transform our agrifood systems and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.

Digital technologies can help increase the production of sufficient nutritious food for an ever-growing population, manage our limited natural resources and reduce poverty. 

The digital divide is most evident in agriculture.
By mainstreaming the use of digital technologies in agriculture, FAO is helping to transform rural communities, particularly for youth and aspiring farmers, to diversify incomes and unlock on- and off-farm opportunities.
Through its digital public goods, which are open-source software, data, standards and artificial intelligence models, FAO is accelerating impact towards achieving the SDGs.
FAO’s 1000 Digital Villages Initiative aims to convert rural villages into digital hubs to support rural transformation and reduce the digital gap, including the gender and rural divide.
The FAO Hand in Hand geospatial platform provides food security indicators and agricultural statistics for better-informed agriculture interventions worldwide.
Through FAO’s Digital Service Portfolio, small-scale farmers receive vital information about weather and crop production, livestock, markets and nutrition on their mobile phones. 
FAO’s WaPOR programme monitors crop production and water use by satellite remote sensing, to help countries modernize irrigation systems and increase efficiency.
The International platform for Digital Food and Agriculture promotes dialogue across stakeholders on digitalization in the sector.
Because harnessing digital technologies is not enough, FAO promotes inclusive and equitable access to them.
Digital technologies are the driving force to achieve efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable agrifood systems, leaving no one behind.

Subscribe! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=FAOoftheUN  

Follow FAO on social media! 
* Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/UNFAO 
* Instagram - https://instagram.com/fao
* LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/fao 
* TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@fao
* Twitter - http://www.twitter.com/fao/
* Weibo - https://www.weibo.com/unfao

© FAO: http://www.fao.org  #SDGs #Agenda2030 #GlobalGoals