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How will we fill 9 billion bowls?
This new in-depth report by Thomson Reuters raises the immense issue of how the world will feed the 9 billion people, or more, that are predicted to inhabit the planet by 2050. Featuring the USDA...
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Africa Open Data Conference (AODC), Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, September 2 – 5
GODAN will be participating actively in discussions at the AODC and will be leading the Agriculture and Nutrition Track on Saturday September 5. The conference represents a valuable opportunity for...
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Taking stock of challenges for global open data in agriculture and nutrition
As the open data revolution in agriculture and nutrition gathers pace, discussions are emerging about some of the ethical issues involved in equitable sharing and use of data, particularly as...
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Scaling up Nutrition (SUN) to be GODAN partner
Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) aims to unite people to combat hunger and malnutrition worldwide. SUN engages with governments, civil society, the United Nations, donors, businesses and researchers in a...
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GODAN Partner Meeting at AODC
The meeting will bring GODAN partners together for meetings and discussions that foment independent or Secretariat-facilitated partnerships going forward, and provide engagement with high-level GODAN...
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Four key issues to tackle at the Africa Open Data Conference
By: Chris Addison, Tim Davies, Ana Brandusescu and Ben Schaap Next week will see the first continent-wide Africa Open Data Conference: bringing together governments, technologists and innovators from...
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Guardian features GODAN’s work on open data to combat global food shortage
Today the Guardian publishes an in-depth feature on the importance of open data in achieving food security and its vital role in helping to combat hunger in an era of population growth. Use cases from...
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Opening up and linking data is becoming a priority for many data producers because of institutional requirements, or to consume data in newer applications, or simply to keep pace with current...
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China announcement on big data promotion to transform social governance
China’s Cabinet, the State Council publishes guidelines to promote the opening and sharing of government data to improve governance, boost innovation and promote economic restructuring, with the aim...
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Panel and Launch of the Sub-Saharan African Food Security Portal
On 16 September, the Sub-Saharan African Food Security Portal will be launched in Brussels. The website, developed by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), contains over 40...
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Successful webinar on Implementing Linked Data in Low Resource Conditions
Some 300 people from around the world* attended the webinar, held yesterday and hosted by ASIS&T, the Association for Information Science and Technology. The presenters, Dr. Johannes Keizer and...
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Agriculture and Nutrition session at Africa Open Data Conference
At the inaugural Africa Open Data Conference (AODC), which took place in Dar es Salaam between 2nd – 5th September, GODAN brought partners and interested participants together for the first major...
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2nd International Workshop Creating Impact with Open Data in Agriculture and...
Following the highly successful first GODAN workshop in January 2015 the Government of the Netherlands, Ministry of Economic Affairs has announced the second international GODAN workshop on “Creating...
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GODAN Summit Challenge
This is a call to action to assist the GODAN partnership in identifying and filling critical data gaps in agriculture and nutrition required to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 2: End hunger,...
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Agriculture research repository now offers open data metadata for all
Good news for Open Access Week. GODAN partners CTA (Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation) and CABI (Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International) have completed migration of...
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GODAN at the Open Government Partnership Global Summit
GODAN’s participation at the OGP Global Summit aims to link agriculture and nutrition to open data, open government and the sustainable development goals. Our Lightning Talk session, Open Government...
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International Open Data Charter and GODAN
GODAN is excited to officially endorse the international Open Data Charter! The Open Data Charter aligns with GODAN’s global efforts to make agricultural and nutritionally relevant data available,...
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Linking agriculture and nutrition to open data, open government and the...
By: Tim Davies, Ana Brandusescu and Ben Schaap – Open Government, Agriculture and Nutrition Open Government Partnership governments spend more than $1.2 trillion a year on the agriculture sector. We...
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Workshop: Creating Impact with Open Data in Agriculture and Nutrition, The...
Following the highly successful first GODAN workshop in January 2015 the Government of the Netherlands, Ministry of Economic Affairs has announced the second international GODAN workshop on “Creating...
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Outcomes 2nd Workshop on Creating Impacts
Efficiency, sustainable and viable rural economy, and supportive governance are main impacts of open data in agriculture and nutrition On 10th and 11th of November, the Government of The Netherlands,...
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Smart Agriculture and Smallholders: Issues in Using ICTs and Information
Ajit Maru, Senior Knowledge Officer at the Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR) shares his recent experience at the International Conference on Intelligent Agriculture, held in Beijing in...
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GODAN to attend COP21 climate change conference in Paris
The Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN) initiative has announced it is committed to attending the high-profile twenty-first session of the Conference of the Parties (COP21) climate...
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Juma Ngomuo explains the ‘Google for farmland’ in Tanzania
Tanzanian GODAN partner Agrinfo uses geodata to share farmland information and enable farmers to better manage their land. The organization does this, explains marketing director Jumo Ngomuo, by...
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GODAN announces new partnership with SAGARPA, Government of Mexico
GODAN announces new partnership with SAGARPA, Government of Mexico The Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN) initiative has announced its new partnership with The Government of Mexico...
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Mobile putting data in people’s hands in Ghana
“It’s really powerful. It’s in people’s hands; it’s in people’s homes. How do we use it for the greater good?”. GODAN partner VOTO Mobile is a three-year old Ghana-based tech startup and social...
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CTA AgriHack in Durban
As one of GODAN’s components is innovation, we aim to explore opportunities and challenges that arise from using datasets and encourage youth to innovate. GODAN will sponsor the CTA AgriHack Durban...
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Open data for agricultural innovation at GFIA Africa
GODAN is excited to participate and present at the 3rd PAFO Continental Briefing and the Open Technology Forum at the Global Forum for Innovations in Agriculture – GFIA Africa. 3rd PAFO Continental...
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Open data & Climate change – Agriculture trends for COP21
Partners of the Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN) initiative call for political leaders at COP21 to make the most obvious data open; “farmers need weather data in order to adapt...
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Open Data & Farming 101
By Ben Schaap, Tim Davies and Ana Brandusescu What is open data? We all make decisions everyday based on different sources of information. Much of that information ultimately starts out as digital...
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AgriHack open data prize winners: MobiElectro!
Congratulations to Mpfumeri Errence Baloyi and Solly Sifiso Cossa – Pretoria, South Africa – from MobiElectro, the winner of the Best Use of Open Data category in the Durban AgriHack Challenge! The...
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Takeaways from open data panel at GFIA
The GFIA panel session, organised by GODAN (with GFAR and CTA), explored open data for agricultural innovation by linking different actors of the open data value chain together. Data on all aspects...
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GODAN’s Highlights at COP21
The Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN) initiative attended the high-profile twenty-first session of the Conference of the Parties (COP21) climate change conference in Paris, France...
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Prototyping a new data collaboration platform for sustainable development
Guest contributors Julia Duncan and Nic Covey write a blog post on how to present data to researchers and practitioners in a productive, centralized way. On September 25th, on the margins of the UN...
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Francophone open data camp organized by GODAN partners
#HackFrancophonie is a new upcoming open data camp led by French-speaking countries such as France and Burkina Faso. The event is organized by GODAN partners Burkina Faso Open Data Initiative (BODI)...
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GODAN celebrates new milestone with over 200 partners
GODAN is pleased to announce several recent partnerships that has increased its partnership network to over 200 members. New partners include Netherlands-based Public Impact, SabiHub from Nigeria and...
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Government of Rwanda joins GODAN network
GODAN is proud to announce a new partnership with The Government of Rwanda’s Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Resources. The Ministry’s vision to modernise agriculture and livestock to achieve food...
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GODAN releases approved Inception Report
Following the recent 2016 Donor Steering Committee meeting held in January 2016 between the GODAN Secretariat and donors including CTA, CGIAR and the USDA, the Secretariat’s Inception report has been...
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GODAN featured in The African Technopolitan
GODAN has been featured in the latest issue of The African Technopolitan Magazine, a publication run by the African Centre for Technological Studies (ACTS) in Nairobi, Kenya. GODAN Aims to Fill...
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Call for input: agricultural investments data survey
Do you create, collect, use or need information about funding for agriculture and nutrition projects? If so, a new study of the data landscape for agriculture and nutrition funding wants to hear from...
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GODAN at Research Data Alliance (RDA) 7th Plenary from 28 Feb to 3 March
For the first time GODAN will be officially be present at RDA in collaboration with the Interest Group on Agricultural Data (IGAD) and Tokyo University. At the official plenary from March 1-3, GODAN...
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Esoko provides tech solution to collect and share market prices via SMS
Ghana-based GODAN partner Esoko has illustrated how mobile phones can be used to allow farmers and buyers to receive open data information for more fair pricing and improved access to markets, based...
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GODAN seeks consultant for open data, data ownership and data governance report
GODAN is seeking a consultant to be the coordinating author of a 10 – 20 page think-piece report exploring issues of open data, data ownership and data governance in the context of agriculture and...
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ILRI using satellite imagery to protect and insure livestock in East Africa
The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), based in Kenya and Ethiopia, has created an innovative insurance product to protect livestock keepers from drought related asset losses...
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GODAN releases Governance Paper
Following the recent 2016 Donor Steering Committee meeting held in January 2016 between the GODAN Secretariat and donors including CTA, CGIAR and the USDA, the GODAN Governance Paper has been approved...
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Open data for agricultural challenges in the Middle East
GODAN is attending The Global Forum for Innovations in Agriculture in Abu Dhabi this week and is focused on sharing the concept of open data as a way of tackling agricultural challenges in the Middle...
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GFIA: Innovation through collaboration
The GODAN Secretariat attended the Global Forum for Innovations in Agriculture (GFIA) in Abu Dhabi (16-17 February). It was a great opportunity for GODAN to discuss innovation in food security with...
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BROSDI encourages farmers to think outside the box in Uganda
The Busoga Rural Open Source and Development Initiative (BROSDI) have been working successfully with poor communities in Uganda for the past twelve years. Ednah Karamagi, executive director of BROSDI...
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GODAN webinar for deans and institutional directors at US land-grant...
A webinar scheduled for March 4th will inform deans, directors, and other leaders in both the fields of agriculture and nutrition about the GODAN initiative. This 20-30 minute introduction to GODAN is...
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Join the International Open Data Day community on March 5th
We celebrate International Open Data Day this year on Saturday, March 5th. A global gathering, both on-the-ground and online, International Open Data Day is a day for citizens to get together and...
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Open call for GODAN partners to be part of an original web series
GODAN is calling for its partners to submit their stories of ‘open data innovation’ from farms around the world — for the chance to be featured in an original GODAN web series. The series will...
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