Strengthening Resilience &
Food Security for Agricultural
Communities: Open Data to
Modernize Food Systems
Dr. David Bergvinson
Director General
ICRISAT
Good for you
Good for the planet
Good for smallholder farmers
Specialization in crops suitable for the drylands
Sorghum Pearl millet
& Finger millet
Groundnut Chickpea Pigeonpea
Spatial Data
Infrastructure
Cloud Computing
Mobile
IOTs
Drones (UAVs) &
Remote Sensing
Image Processing
Advanced Analytics &
Artificial Intelligence
Unique Identifiers
MOOCs to
personalize education
Digital Agriculture
http://www.businesstoday.in/magazine/features/digital-
agriculture-empowers-farmers/story/242966.html
Value Chain Logistics
Digital soil maps
RT down-scaled weather data
Market Information (Prices)
Hydrology data
Socio-economic + health data
Artificial
Intelligence
International
Commodity
Markets
Agriculture
Input
Markets
Infrastructure and Logistics
Crop recommendations
Fertilizer recommendations
Policy recommendations
Monitoring and Evaluation Engine
National Farmer
database
Planning and
Budgeting
Finance Dept.
All data feed into advanced analytics to guide farmers (profitability, minimize risk, improve availability
of nutritious diverse safe food) and support government planning and private sector partnerships
Smart Development Infrastructure to support Convergence,
Optimize Resources, Manage Risk and Increase Rural Incomes
FPOs, VC Services and farmer
dashboards for optimizing farmer
incomes and reducing risk
Spatial Data
Infrastructure:
High
resolution
base maps to
integrate in
time and
space
Unified
Payment
Interface
Value Chains and Country Strategies
Crop improvement
Inputs and farmer services Post-harvest handling and access to marketsResearch and development
Discovery
Agronomic
research
Other input
systems
Farm
management
Seed
systems
Knowledge
exchange
Aggregation, quality
and storage
End-user demandProcessing
Value Chain Approach Guides State/Country Strategies
Backward integration of farmers to marketsDemand-driven innovation
ICRISAT has a strong record of developing and delivering demand-driven innovations to smallholder farmers in the dryland areas of India for over 43 years. ICRISAT was designed by Prof. MS Swaminathan at the request of Indira Gandhi after learning from the Green Revolution and the need for integrated farm research to support sustainable intensification for Indian dryland agriculture
Indian dryland agriculture – over 65% of India’s agriculture land and 40% of its food production come from this ecology
More than 85 percent of India’s farmers work land that is one acre or less.
(UN-FAO)
The Business engine needs to have constraints defined around sustainability of resources and maximization of profitability for the farmer: All data feed into advanced analytics to guide farmers (profitability, minimize risk, improve availability of nutritious diverse safe food) and support Gov’ts planning and investments