Adapting to the trend of open data, promoting agricultural data sharing and application - those are a few of the problems that six teams aimed to tackle at a Hackathon during November 18th to 20th 2014 in the Agricultural Information Institute (AII) of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS). The event, sponsored by GFAR, CIARD and FAO, was co-hosted by YPARD Asia. It was the first time... Continue reading

It is generally believed that field survey is a vital and basic way to conduct research and for the preparation of polices. We (International Division of Agricultural Information Institute, CAAS) did several long time and large geographical span field surveys in the past years. The study “Improving nutrition, food safety and food security for China’s most vulnerable women and children” was conducted in 2010-2012 by the United... Continue reading

YPARD were Promoted in Yunan, Shanxi and Hebei Province in China by chance of the project of field survey in remote and poverty villages My dear YPARD China team members and I are all doing our jobs on a project of field survey in remote and poverty villages in China these months.  Before the actual field survey, we went to the... Continue reading