khangdong89 / farm-data-management-mooc

This repository is used to publish the content of the online course on Farm Data Management, Sharing and Services for Agriculture Development. Content is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Farm Data Management, Sharing and Services for Agriculture Development Online Course

Massive open Online Course (MOOC) on Farm Data Management, Sharing and Services for Agriculture Development was funded by the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) with the Pan African Farmers’ Organisation (PAFO), developed and delivered by the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) together in 2019.

This course was built on the content and experience of the GODAN Action online courses - “Open Data Management in Agriculture and Nutrition”, which has been offered in 2017 and 2018.

The online course "“Farm Data Management, Sharing and Services for Agriculture Development” was delivered two times from October to December in 2019. It accommodated over 5,000 participants from 153 different countries.

The learning materials developed specifically for the course is published publicly on this platform to be beneficial for a wider community.

It was aimed to strengthen the skills of professionals who use, manage data for the benefit of farmers and farmers organisations by exposing them to the topics of importance of data in the agriculture value chain and how new and existing technologies, products and services can leverage farm level and global data to improve yield, reduce loss, add value and increase profitability and resilience.

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