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  Press Release: IWMI project enables fast access to petabytes of analysis-ready water data in Africa

  International Water Management Institute (IWMI)

  20.03.20

  • Big data
  • Climate

  A new IWMI partnership with Digital Earth Africa (DEA) will leverage state of the art…

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  AfricaRice inaugurates the Rice Biodiversity Center for Africa

  Africa Rice Center

  27.02.20

  • Big data
  • Biodiversity
  • Climate
  • Creating JOBS and GROWTH
  • Genomics
  • Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
  • Nutrition
  • Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
  • Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
  • Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY

  Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, 27 February 2020 - The Rice Biodiversity Center for Africa (RBCA) was of…

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  Harnessing telecommunications network data for rainfall monitoring in developing countries

  International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

  24.02.20

  • Big data
  • Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY

  The lack of accurate rainfall measurements in developing countries poses problems in monitoring crop…

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  Complex but adaptive: a fresh look at smallholder value chains and their development

  World Agroforestry (ICRAF)

  21.02.20

  • Big data
  • Creating JOBS and GROWTH

  “The Value Chain Development approach looks at market dynamics and relationships between the diffe…

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  A tool for all seasons: A ‘lean’ household survey system for ‘minimal effort, maximum information’ comes of age

  International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)

  14.02.20

  • Big data
  • Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY

  Key indicator groups (modules) generated by all RHoMIS applications (Fig. 1 from: The Rural Househol…

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  Seed systems in Nepal are going digital

  International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)

  06.01.20

  • Big data

  In Nepal, it takes at least a year to collate the demand and supply of a required type and…

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