Collaborative Farming - Creating sustainable future for small farmers
Sustainable Agriculture is a complex global puzzle. CLimate changes, depleting soil quality, lack of capital has resulted in hunger and famine in many parts of the world.In fact, shortly, these will hit harder than ever before. Readers of this post probably don't realise what a famine could do to the society, but not for long. Soon we will experience one if we continue to neglect small and marginal farmers. Small farmers are a significant part of our existence. Act now to save them or be prepared to spend more than 50% of your income towards food. The presentation is the first part of series which will focus on building a collaborative framework for sustainable farming. The first phase will focus on the farmer (user) and his problems, followed by business challenges and then technology architecture. The first part of the series presented at NUS Enterprise, Singapore in an event organised by IoTSG. I intend to bring in awareness on the importance of small farmers in the food ecosystem. Small farmers desperately need help from the technology developers to improve their farm productivity and ultimately their living conditions. Uplifting the small farmers will indirectly impact on the progress of humankind as described by sustainable global development goals of UN. (http://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/sustainable-development-goals.html )
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- 1. HOW CAN WE CREATE A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE FOR WORLD’S SMALL FARMERS? COLLABORATIVE FARMING Techie's PERSPECTIVE Darshan Virupaksha
- 2. Who is a small farmer ? 'SMALL FARMER' - A FARMER CULTIVATING AGRICULTURAL LAND UP TO 1 HECTARE AND THE FACE OF AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SYSTEMS 64 60 60 % % % 500 M FRUITS VEGETABLES LIVESTOCK HOUSEHOLDS WORLDWIDE %ALL NUTRIENTS IN CHINA 50
- 3. Land Distribution Study funded by Gates Melinda foundation - Link
- 4. Nutrition PRODUCTION OF NUTRIENTS BY THE DIVERSITY CATEGORY Study funded by Gates Melinda foundation - Link
- 5. Trends Averageannualgrowthrate 5NEW FARMLANDS 70 % USED Production to be doubled by 2050Drop in growth rate 1 PEOPLE ARE SEVERELY MALNOURISHED & 75% OF THEM ARE DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY LINKED TO AGRICULTURE BILLION 35% WASTAGE GLOBAL FOOD SYSTEM NEEDS SERIOUS CONSIDERATION GLOBAL WARMING WILL AFFECT YIELD AS THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED TO RISE BY 1.2 Degree!! % Source : FAO
- 6. Small Farms of 21st Century SOIL PEST WASTAGE LABOUR
- 8. Collaborative farming Community empowered by technology based on shared value, shared risk, and a voice for everyone.
- 9. Needs Financial services Infrastructure Farm Inputs Information services Access to Credit Micro Insurance and other risk mitigating products Digitize payments Storage facilities Reliable energy Processing units Irrigation Affordable transport Quality Seeds, fertilizers and pest control Access to affordable farm machinery Expert advice Skill development Grading and Certification Market Linkages Business education
- 10. Booster model Source : Global Investor Network
- 11. Functional model
- 12. Enablers Energy Efficient Computing Artificial Intelligence Mobile revolution Low cost satellites Embedded Connectivity
- 13. Helping small farmers can ... 800 Million suffer chronic hunger 700 Million are extremely poor 2 Billion suffer from nutrient diseases Agri sector contributes to 24% of green house emissions Make food systems more efficient, inclusive & resilient. Sustainable natural resource base Address root cause of rural migration
- 14. Global Precision Farming market accounted for $2.81 billion in 2014 and is expected to grow at a CAGR of 12.5% to reach $6.43 billion by 2022. Corporate activities in the AgTech sector is picking up , market consolidation will soon shape the market dynamics Developing countries still remain a huge market. A study by a US university - 20 USD annual fee / per farmer is affordable in developing countries. Total market value significant. Scope for new innovation models --> Disruption is awaited AgTech Market
- 15. Likely Buyers of Agtech Innovations Source : AgriFund News
- 16. “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” ...Helen Keller Lets connect to make a change www.linkedin.com/in/darshanvirupaksha Darshan Virupaksha
- 17. Appendix
- 19. Role of Agtech Innovation Mapped with Farmer Needs Source : AgriFund News