Philippines has lifted the import ban on meat and other agricultural products from Japan’s Fukushima, nine years after the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear plant disaster in 2011
Agriculture
EU’s F2F strategy to produce a more sustainable food system
Andre Laperrière, executive director of Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN), has commented that the EU’s Farm-to-Fork strategy is crucial for a sustainable future
Open data most important for new-age farming
Andre Laperrière, executive director of Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN), said that open data, artificial intelligence, precision farming and other technological tools are optimising the way of farming, reducing the impact on the environment
Strengthening Fiji’s capacity to prepare for droughts
The National Disaster Management Office (NDMO) and the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) led a provincial Drought Early Action Formulation Workshop in Sigatoka to gather stakeholders to formulate and endorse Early Actions for the crop, livestock, aquaculture and Forestry Sectors as well as other agriculture-related livelihoods
‘Open data can identify new opportunities to farm more sustainably’
In light of Prof Sir Ian Boyd’s urge for half of the UK farmland to be given to nature, Andre Laperrière, executive director of Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN), commented that a fine balance is needed to harbour agricultural and environmental growth