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Some useful resources for learning about e-agriculture in practice are the World Bank's e-sourcebook ICT in agriculture – connecting smallholder farmers to knowledge, networks and institutions (2011), [2] ICT uses for inclusive value chains (2013), [3] ICT uses for inclusive value chains (2013) [4] and Success stories on information and ...
The Global Forum on Agricultural Research and Innovation (GFAR) is an international forum that focuses on the future of agriculture and its role in development around the world. [1] [2] Established in 1996, GFAR was formed as a project for resource sharing. [3] [4] GFAR's headquarters is in Rome, Italy, where it is hosted by FAO. Its current ...
Statistics are at the core of the work of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), its mandate and strategic goals. Article I of its Constitution states that “The Organization shall collect, analyse, interpret and disseminate information relating to nutrition, food and agriculture. […] the term ‘agriculture ...
This subcommittee has jurisdiction over legislation involving renewable energy production and energy efficiency improvement on farms and ranches and in rural communities; food and agricultural research, education, economics and extension; innovation in the use of agricultural commodities and materials.
That year, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Organic Act recreating the Department of Agriculture. [6] It became the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry in 1884, a reflection of the growing importance of forests to the country's needs. [7] It was renamed again to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry in 1977.
The Census of Agriculture is a census conducted every five years by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) that provides the only source of uniform, comprehensive agricultural data for every county in the United States.
A USDA reorganization in 1961 led to the creation of the Statistical Reporting Service, known today as National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS). [1] The 1997 Appropriations Act [2] shifted the responsibility of conducting the Census of Agriculture from U.S. Census Bureau to USDA. Since then the census has been conducted every five years ...
The ERS and National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) jointly fund and manage the Agricultural Resource Management Survey, a multi-phase, nationally representative survey of U.S. farms that is the USDA's "primary source of information on the financial condition, production practices, and resource use of America's farm businesses and the ...