During the conference, farmers, stakeholders etc. have discussed the future of agriculture in the context how ICTs can contribute to improve family farming and make it more sustainable, resilient and profitable. It looked at key issues in 3 areas where application and use ICTs and related technologies make a difference:
- Informing family farming communities
- Improving family farm's production, productivity and marketing efficiencies
- Contributing to the future of agriculture
The conference has brought together senior representatives of leading public, private, education and research organizations from around the world to collectively discuss and find ways to improve productivity, efficiency, access to markets, transfer of know-how and information.
The conference is initiated by the Club of Ossiach, which is a group of agriculturists, agribusiness managers, agriculture and forestry technologists, environmentalists and agricultural ICT specialists from around the world. They meet periodically to collectively discuss and collaboratively act on influencing the use of information and communications technologies (ICTs) to improve agricultural productivity, profitability and contribution to food and nutritional security and safety globally.
Watch a video from the conference:
Source: ag-press.eu
