VIRTUAL EVENT: Bridging the digital divide and bringing digital agricultural innovations to smallholders and small scale enterprises.

30 November - 2 December 2020. Following the success of the previous two bi-yearly E-agriculture
Solutions Forum (Thailand 2016, China 2018), FAO and ITU are organizing this year virtual Digital Agriculture Solutions Forum under the theme: “Bridging the digital divide and bringing digital agricultural innovations to smallholders and small scale enterprises”.

The main objectives include:

1. Building back better through sustainable digital interventions (or solutions) for agriculture and providing responses to on-going COVID crisis while targeting longer-term digital transformation of the agriculture sector.
2. Transforming agriculture and supporting rural communities jobs, livelihoods and local economies through sustainable digital solutions.
3. Sustaining digital solutions and promoting innovations by attracting investments and by bridging the digital divide and fostering rural agripreneurs.
4. Showcasing successful solutions and identifying lessons learnt in the design, development and deployment of digital agriculture services and solutions and their broad-based access.