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The Future of African Agriculture & Food Security


This month we focus on the future of agriculture & food security commencing with our feature article written by Dr Nisreen Rafik Lahham.

Digital Technology Shaping the Future of African Agriculture

With an exponentially increasing human population coupled with diminishing arable land, agriculture will need to keep evolving, balancing future demand and supply sustainably. Growth in agricultural productivity will need to continue in order to meet the challenge of continually increasing output while improving use efficiencies of inputs such as nutrients, water and labor.

Research and development into the further integration of digital technology and agricultural productivity continues with researchers and manufacturers looking for new ways to utilize ever increasing computing power and more accurate sensors. It seems it’s only a matter of time before a vast majority of agricultural tasks could be carried out by autonomous robots and all crop plants are monitored and managed on an individual basis...

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Participate at the forefront of African foresight:

Futurist profile
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Dr Nisreen Rafik Lahham, Manager of R & D Department at the Egyptian Cabinet, Information & Decision Support Center.

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The Future of Agriculture & Food Security Bibliozone

Featured in Bibliozone this month is a collection of publications related to agriculture, food security and what to expect in the future.

Some of the topics we focus on in this issue include:
Various other publications are available in our FFD library on the future of agriculture & food security.

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Southern Africa Horizon Scan

Searchlight Southern Africa is a horizon scanning and trend monitoring service for globalisation-related issues in the Southern African region.

Read this month's edition of the Searchlight newsletter.


Talk-@-tive

A selection of quotes about the future of agriculture.

“The road out of poverty is lined with women food producers and sellers."

Dr. Ephraim A. Mukisira


Videophile

Our selection of videos on this month's theme: agriculture futures.
 
Including videos from the High-Level Expert Forum on How to Feed the World in 2050 and many more.

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Noticeboard

 
ONE's new report “What does the world really want from the next global development goals: Ensuring that the world’s poor define the post- 2015 framework”.
 
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