G8 – Open Data for Agriculture (World Bank)
From the webpage:
At the 2012 G-8 Summit, G-8 leaders committed to the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition, the next phase of a shared commitment to achieving global food security.
As part of this commitment, they agreed to “share relevant agricultural data available from G-8 countries with African partners and convene an international conference on Open Data for Agriculture, to develop options for the establishment of a global platform to make reliable agricultural and related information available to African farmers, researchers and policymakers, taking into account existing agricultural data systems.”
On April 29-30, the G8 International Conference on Open Data for Agriculture brought together open data and agriculture experts along with U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, U.S. Chief Technology Officer Todd Park, and World Bank Vice President for Sustainable Development Rachel Kyte to explore more opportunities for open data and knowledge sharing that can help farmers and governments in Africa and around the globe protect their crops from pests and extreme weather, increase their yields, monitor water supplies, and anticipate planting seasons that are shifting with climate change.
Webcasts on open data for agriculture.
This is immediately applicable to some work I am doing (more on that, hopefully later in May) but I discovered that the webcasts are single session casts. That is the one I am watching now is almost nine (9) hours long.
Fortunately I have the agenda and can guess fairly close on the part that I want to see.
Good background information if you are interested in topic maps in this space.