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With new technologies cropping up, family farming – one of the world’s oldest economic activities – is evolving to harness emerging opportunities for productivity and sustainability gains. Family-owned farms make up around four fifths of Earth’s farmland and are responsible for over 80% of global food production in value terms, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization.

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South-South cooperation to empower developing countries

UNCTAD and Thailand Science Research and Innovation (TSRI) have joined forces to train women entrepreneurs and researchers on the country’s Bio-Circular-Green (BCG) economy model.  The Thai government put the model in place as part of a post-pandemic recovery strategy that aims to capitalize on the country’s biological diversity and cultural richness while promoting more sustainable and inclusive opportunities.

One of the main takeaways of UNCTAD’s Technology and Innovation Report 2023 is that national governments and the international community must act now to avoid leaving developing countries out of the green technological revolution that is quickly unfolding. Green technologies are those related to the production of goods and services with lower carbon footprints.

On 29 March 2023, at Palais des Nations in Geneva, the Mission of Latvia to the United Nations held a panel discussion on “Protecting information integrity in…

With China entering a new era of green and innovation-led growth, Covestro AG, a German company that produces a variety of polyurethane and polycarbonate-based raw materials, will put a new polyurethane dispersion plant into operation in its Shanghai integrated site in 2024 to meet the country's soaring demand for water-based industrial products to further cut carbon emissions, said a senior executive.

Science, technology and innovation (STI) tools are indispensable in tackling today’s pressing challenges such as climate change, which need global solutions. That’s the message from UNCTAD ahead of the 26th session of the Commission on Science and Technology for Development (CSTD), slated for 27 to 31 March in Geneva and online. UNCTAD provides substantive support to the CSTD.

Huawei’s FinTech 2.0 To Support Ghana’s Mobile Money, Deepen Financial Inclusion

The Head of Engineering at Stanbic Bank Ghana, Eric Nsarkoh, has attributed the success of the mobile money innovation to partnerships in the financial and fintech ecosystem. Eric Nsarkoh said this at the 2023 edition of the Mobile Technology for Development (MT4D) conference held at the Kempinski Hotel Gold Coast City Accra. Speaking on the […]