ICT4Ag start-ups: Building a Better E-Agribusiness

ICT4Ag start-ups: Building a Better E-Agribusiness
Author: CTA
Publisher: CTA
Total Pages: 125
Release: 2018-06-18
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Spore Magazine 189: ICT4Ag start-ups: Building a Better E-Agribusiness The recent boom in ag-tech start-ups has helped to further agricultural transformation and improve farmers’ access to valuable ICT-enabled services. But to continue this progress it is pertinent that entrepreneurs design sustainable business models. SPORE is the quarterly magazine of the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA), offering a global perspective on agribusiness and sustainable agriculture. CTA operates under the Cotonou Agreement between the countries of the Africa, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) group and the European Union and is financed by the EU.

ICT Update no. 83

ICT Update no. 83
Author:
Publisher: CTA
Total Pages: 24
Release: 2016-12-31
Genre: Computers
ISBN:

ICT Update is a bimonthly printed and on line magazine (http://ictupdate.cta.int) and an accompanying email newsletter published by CTA. This issue focuses youth e-agriculture entrepreneurship.

Why Invest in ICTs for agriculture?

Why Invest in ICTs for agriculture?
Author: Tetteh Kwasi Nuer, Alexander
Publisher: CTA
Total Pages: 74
Release: 2018-12-19
Genre:
ISBN: 9290816406

With the ability to reach many farmers with timely and accessible content, the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) for agriculture (ICT4Ag) has the potential to transform farming and food production, worldwide. ICT4Ag supports new methods in the monitoring and management of soils, plants and livestock (precision agriculture), access to online markets, and improved communication between value chain stakeholders, among others. The services provided are vital in connecting farmers with the information they need to improve their agricultural productivity and reduce poverty. Through case studies and examples of ICT4Ag initiatives from across Asia, the Caribbean and sub-Saharan Africa, the first chapter looks at how ICT4Ag actually works to drive economic development across developing economies.

ICT4Ag (ICT Update) 79

ICT4Ag (ICT Update) 79
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Publisher: CTA
Total Pages: 13
Release: 2015-12-31
Genre: Computers
ISBN:

ICT Update is a bimonthly printed and on line magazine (http://ictupdate.cta.int) and an accompanying email newsletter published by CTA. This issue focuses on data revolution for agriculture.

ICT Update no. 85

ICT Update no. 85
Author: CTA
Publisher: CTA
Total Pages: 24
Release: 2017-08-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

In ICT Update and on websites such as ICT4Ag, CTA has covered the explosive growth and proliferation of digital and mobile phone technologies for agriculture. Now CTA takes the next step with developing the Apps4Ag database, a comprehensive, up-to-date and responsive database of ICTs including mobile, web, animation, audio, and video applications involved in the food value chains.

ICT4Ag (ICT Update) 76

ICT4Ag (ICT Update) 76
Author: CTA
Publisher: CTA
Total Pages: 16
Release: 2014-12-31
Genre: Computers
ISBN:

ICT Update is a bimonthly printed and on-line magazine (http://ictupdate.cta.int) and an accompanying e-mail newsletter published by CTA. This issue focuses on agricultural mobile finance.

ICT4Ag (ICT Update) 81

ICT4Ag (ICT Update) 81
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Publisher: CTA
Total Pages: 16
Release: 2016-12-31
Genre: Computers
ISBN:

ICT Update is a bimonthly printed and on line magazine (http://ictupdate.cta.int) and an accompanying email newsletter published by CTA. This issue focuses on online communities.

Food Technology Disruptions

Food Technology Disruptions
Author: Charis M. Galanakis
Publisher: Academic Press
Total Pages: 390
Release: 2021-01-20
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0128214740

Food Technology Disruptions covers the latest disruptions in the food industry, such as the Internet of Things, digital technologies, modern applications like 3D printing, bacterial sensors in food packaging, electronic noses for food authentication, and artificial intelligence. With additional discussions on innovative distribution and delivery of food and consumer acceptance of food disruptions, this book is an essential resource for food scientists, technologists, engineers, agriculturalists, chemists, product developers, researchers, academics and professionals working in the food industry. While innovations play an important role in food production, disruptive technologies are a revolutionary type of innovation that can displace an established technology and shake up the industry...or create a completely new industry. Currently, digital technologies and smart applications lead innovations in the food sector in order to optimize the food supply chain and to develop and deliver tailor-made food products to consumers with new eating habits. - Covers digital technologies in agriculture, food production and food processing, modern eating habits, personalized nutrition, and relevant innovative food products - Brings alternative protein sources, novel functional foods and artificial meat - Discusses the Internet of Things, digital technologies and modern applications like 3D printing, smart packaging and smart food distribution

ICT4Ag (ICT Update) 80

ICT4Ag (ICT Update) 80
Author:
Publisher: CTA
Total Pages: 16
Release: 2015-12-31
Genre: Computers
ISBN:

ICT Update is a bimonthly printed and on line magazine (http://ictupdate.cta.int) and an accompanying email newsletter published by CTA. This issue focuses on mobile technologies.

An ICT agripreneurship guide

An ICT agripreneurship guide
Author: CTA
Publisher: CTA
Total Pages: 72
Release: 2017-08-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9290816139

This Handbook provides a step-by-step roadmap designed to equip aspiring ICT entrepreneurs, with the information and knowledge they need to start an ICT-based business in the agricultural sector, outlining key opportunities and challenges that will be encountered along the way. Using real-life examples, it provides strategies and pathways for averting common mistakes faced by early-stage entrepreneurs. Topics covered include agricultural value chains and their stakeholders, ICT business challenges, effective business plans and models for designing, funding and scaling ventures.