[Webinar recording in last slide or at https://youtu.be/bsicKqHZIz4, 22/2/2018]
As part of its work on farmers’ data rights and following up on the face-to-face course on Farmers’ Access to Data organized in Centurion in November 2017, GFAR collaborates with the Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition initiative (GODAN) and the Technical Center for Agricultural and Rural Cooperarion (CTA) on a series of webinars on data-driven agriculture, its opportunities and its challenges.
Overview of webinar #1
Precision agriculture is a promising set of technologies that is data intensive, but which has limited adoption by small holder farms in Sub-Saharan Africa. Concurrently, current trends in sustainability, traceability, and compliance reporting demand that an ever-increasing amount of data be gathered as part of everyday operations in modern production agriculture.
The use of farm management information systems (FMIS) for decision support has shown great promise for improving farm yields and profitability. However, growers are often unsure of the value of the data that they are providing and/or receiving. How does this data help them make the right decisions to improve their yield and profitability? How do growers and service providers work together to simplify the design and use of farm data? How can smallholder farmers take advantage of data in a mutually valuable relationship with data providers?
Webinar Goals
Provide attendees a foundation for understanding the use of data for farming and across the agricultural value chain. Attendees should be able to apply the core concepts of using data for field operations, as well as how data is used across the value chain. Attendees will be introduced to the opportunities and challenges of using data, especially for smallholder farmers.
About the presenter
Dan Berne is a highly regarded professional business growth strategist with over 30 years’ experience. Dan led the effort to create an Ag Irrigation market strategy for the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA). He also conducted grower experience studies to help identify barriers to grower adoption of energy saving practices. Dan wrote or co-wrote many of the NEEA Ag Irrigation reports. Dan serves as the Project Manager on AgGateway’s Precision Ag Irrigation Language data standards project. He is an affiliate of the Chasm Institute, and a certified practitioner of Innovation Games.
Dan started the “Lagom Ag Initiative” within his company to help accelerate the adoption of precision farming practices and improve the use of digital agricultural methodologies. Lagom is a Swedish word that means “just enough.” It is also used to mean “simply perfect.” It fits our philosophy of helping farmers use just enough water, just enough fertilizers, just enough energy to be profitable while increasing or maintaining yield.
Presentation delivered by Deepak Pareek, CEO & Founder, MyCrop at BiharAgriTech Conference held on 16th December 2017 at Patna. The world is getting larger with the population growing by nearly 3 more people every second, which is 240,000 people a day. By 2025, the global population will reach 8 billion people and 9.6 billion by 2050. This means within one generation, there will be more people additionally on the planet than there were at the beginning of the
20th century. Feeding the growing world population poses an unprecedented challenge to human ingenuity. By 2050, food production must increase by 70% to keep pace.
Achieving the level of agricultural productivity necessary to meet the immensely risen world demand for food, fiber, and fuel by 2050 will be a challenge. Meeting this challenge is made even more daunting by a number of stringent constraints including environmental challenges and need to make benefits of development reach all. While Precision Agriculture has been in circulation for more than few decades but has been confined to the developed and the rich due to prohibitive cost and marginal value it brought to the table. Further complexity of the concept made it difficult or repulsive to smallholder farmers the core of agriculture ecosystem in developing the world.
Big Data technologies have suddenly changed this equation. The impact is so profound that Precision Agriculture which seemed to be the muse of the elite has suddenly become a rage for the underserved. This presentation takes you through a complete set of reasons and facts which are driving Big Data revolution in AgTech and the resulting adoption of Precision Agriculture by Smallholder farmers.
Wesley Booth is an Acadia University business student who is working on a research project how predictive analytics can be used in the agriculture industry and how this relates to precision agriculture and farmers here in Kings County. The example outlined in the presentation is using predictive analytics to improve apple scab detection and management.
AI for intelligent services in Food SystemsSjaak Wolfert
This presentation was presented at the IEEE 5G Worldforum in a session 'Dialogues between 5G/B5G and Vertical Domains: AI for Intelligent Services. Several use cases in Food Systems that use 5G are presented of which the 'weed detection robot' in more detail. Enabling factors and recommendations for the use of 5G to create intelligent services using AI are discussed.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, BLOCK CHAIN AND BIG DATA - EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES AND...Deepak Pareek
Deepak Pareek, CEO of MyCrop addressed Geospatial World Forum 2018 at Hyderabad on 18th January 2018.
The world is getting larger, by 2050, the global population will reach 9.6 billion people. This means within one generation, there will be more people added on the planet than there were at the beginning of the 20th century. Feeding the growing world population poses an unprecedented challenge to human ingenuity. By 2050, food production must increase by 70% to keep pace.
Achieving the level of agricultural productivity necessary to meet the immensely risen world demand for food, fiber and fuel by 2050 will be a challenge. Meeting this challenge is made even more daunting by a number of stringent constraints including environmental challenges, limitation of resources and need to make benefits of development reach all especially the smallholder farmers.
While Advance Technologies for Precision Agriculture and Business Models around Platforms/Ecosystems have been in circulation for more than few decades but have been confined to the developed and the rich due to prohibitive cost and marginal value it brought to the table. Further complexity of the concept made it difficult or repulsive to smallholder farmers the core of agriculture ecosystem in developing world.
However more evolved business models and disruptive technologies like Artificial Intelligence, Block Chain and Big Data have suddenly changed this equation. The impact is so profound that what seemed to be the muse of the elite has suddenly become a rage for the underserved. This talk takes you through a complete set of reasons and facts which are driving revolution in AgTech and the resulting adoption of the same by smallholder farmers.
This is a keynote presentation presented at a conference on INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES AND DATA APPLICATIONS IN THE AGRIFOOD SECTOR, 26 February 2019 at Boğaziçi Üniversitesi South Campus, Rectorate Conference Hall, Turkey. It describes multi-disciplinary, collaborative, agile approach for digital transformation of the agri-food sector based on the IoF2020 and SmartAgriHubs project. It describes several examples of IoT and Big Data applications from those projects,
The video and voice-over of this presentation can be found at https://youtu.be/wYJVqh6jvSE
Farm Management System - Delivering a Precision Agriculture SolutionHPCC Systems
Jeff Bradshaw & Graeme McCracken, RBI, present at the 2016 HPCC Systems Engineering Summit Community Day.
In this session, we will share our use case on how we have collected data from remote Farm Management Systems (used by the Farmers/Growers to manage their farms), and overlaying that with weather data and actual machinery data (IoT) and using this data to feed Agronomists and Crop Protection/Seed Manufacturers to get recommendations back. The goal is to deliver a precision agriculture solution which helps the Farmer to increase his yield and helps us to feed the growing population of the world.
Jeff Bradshaw is the founder of Adaptris and Group CTO of Adaptris/F4F/DBT within Reed Business Information. He has spent his career integrating data wherever it resides and in-flight across a number of industries including Agriculture, Airlines, Telecommunications, Healthcare, Government and Finance.
Jeff has worked with and contributed to a number of international standards bodies and continues to work with large enterprises to help them extract value from their data silos and share data seamlessly with their trading partners to achieve business benefit. For the last few years Jeff has been focusing on Big Data and how to gather that across a wide range of sources to help gain insight into the agri-food supply chain.
Graeme is the Chief Operating Officer for Proagrica, the global agricultural and animal health division within RELX covering Media, Software, Integration & Connectivity and Data & Analytics. Prior to this role, Graeme was the CEO of RELX’s Construction Data & Analytics business in North America with a background in data, product and IT innovation across a complex portfolio of companies in Europe, North America and Australasia.
Graeme has been in RELX for 24 years driving a range of strategic initiatives and building strong teams that are well motivated, involved and having fun. As part of overall strategic alignment, successfully delivered the divestment of a number of divisions whilst ensuring that these units were well set for the future. Impressive track record in transforming a range of business units across RELX and setting them on a successful growth path.
Presentation delivered by Deepak Pareek, CEO & Founder, MyCrop at BiharAgriTech Conference held on 16th December 2017 at Patna. The world is getting larger with the population growing by nearly 3 more people every second, which is 240,000 people a day. By 2025, the global population will reach 8 billion people and 9.6 billion by 2050. This means within one generation, there will be more people additionally on the planet than there were at the beginning of the
20th century. Feeding the growing world population poses an unprecedented challenge to human ingenuity. By 2050, food production must increase by 70% to keep pace.
Achieving the level of agricultural productivity necessary to meet the immensely risen world demand for food, fiber, and fuel by 2050 will be a challenge. Meeting this challenge is made even more daunting by a number of stringent constraints including environmental challenges and need to make benefits of development reach all. While Precision Agriculture has been in circulation for more than few decades but has been confined to the developed and the rich due to prohibitive cost and marginal value it brought to the table. Further complexity of the concept made it difficult or repulsive to smallholder farmers the core of agriculture ecosystem in developing the world.
Big Data technologies have suddenly changed this equation. The impact is so profound that Precision Agriculture which seemed to be the muse of the elite has suddenly become a rage for the underserved. This presentation takes you through a complete set of reasons and facts which are driving Big Data revolution in AgTech and the resulting adoption of Precision Agriculture by Smallholder farmers.
Wesley Booth is an Acadia University business student who is working on a research project how predictive analytics can be used in the agriculture industry and how this relates to precision agriculture and farmers here in Kings County. The example outlined in the presentation is using predictive analytics to improve apple scab detection and management.
AI for intelligent services in Food SystemsSjaak Wolfert
This presentation was presented at the IEEE 5G Worldforum in a session 'Dialogues between 5G/B5G and Vertical Domains: AI for Intelligent Services. Several use cases in Food Systems that use 5G are presented of which the 'weed detection robot' in more detail. Enabling factors and recommendations for the use of 5G to create intelligent services using AI are discussed.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, BLOCK CHAIN AND BIG DATA - EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES AND...Deepak Pareek
Deepak Pareek, CEO of MyCrop addressed Geospatial World Forum 2018 at Hyderabad on 18th January 2018.
The world is getting larger, by 2050, the global population will reach 9.6 billion people. This means within one generation, there will be more people added on the planet than there were at the beginning of the 20th century. Feeding the growing world population poses an unprecedented challenge to human ingenuity. By 2050, food production must increase by 70% to keep pace.
Achieving the level of agricultural productivity necessary to meet the immensely risen world demand for food, fiber and fuel by 2050 will be a challenge. Meeting this challenge is made even more daunting by a number of stringent constraints including environmental challenges, limitation of resources and need to make benefits of development reach all especially the smallholder farmers.
While Advance Technologies for Precision Agriculture and Business Models around Platforms/Ecosystems have been in circulation for more than few decades but have been confined to the developed and the rich due to prohibitive cost and marginal value it brought to the table. Further complexity of the concept made it difficult or repulsive to smallholder farmers the core of agriculture ecosystem in developing world.
However more evolved business models and disruptive technologies like Artificial Intelligence, Block Chain and Big Data have suddenly changed this equation. The impact is so profound that what seemed to be the muse of the elite has suddenly become a rage for the underserved. This talk takes you through a complete set of reasons and facts which are driving revolution in AgTech and the resulting adoption of the same by smallholder farmers.
This is a keynote presentation presented at a conference on INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES AND DATA APPLICATIONS IN THE AGRIFOOD SECTOR, 26 February 2019 at Boğaziçi Üniversitesi South Campus, Rectorate Conference Hall, Turkey. It describes multi-disciplinary, collaborative, agile approach for digital transformation of the agri-food sector based on the IoF2020 and SmartAgriHubs project. It describes several examples of IoT and Big Data applications from those projects,
The video and voice-over of this presentation can be found at https://youtu.be/wYJVqh6jvSE
Farm Management System - Delivering a Precision Agriculture SolutionHPCC Systems
Jeff Bradshaw & Graeme McCracken, RBI, present at the 2016 HPCC Systems Engineering Summit Community Day.
In this session, we will share our use case on how we have collected data from remote Farm Management Systems (used by the Farmers/Growers to manage their farms), and overlaying that with weather data and actual machinery data (IoT) and using this data to feed Agronomists and Crop Protection/Seed Manufacturers to get recommendations back. The goal is to deliver a precision agriculture solution which helps the Farmer to increase his yield and helps us to feed the growing population of the world.
Jeff Bradshaw is the founder of Adaptris and Group CTO of Adaptris/F4F/DBT within Reed Business Information. He has spent his career integrating data wherever it resides and in-flight across a number of industries including Agriculture, Airlines, Telecommunications, Healthcare, Government and Finance.
Jeff has worked with and contributed to a number of international standards bodies and continues to work with large enterprises to help them extract value from their data silos and share data seamlessly with their trading partners to achieve business benefit. For the last few years Jeff has been focusing on Big Data and how to gather that across a wide range of sources to help gain insight into the agri-food supply chain.
Graeme is the Chief Operating Officer for Proagrica, the global agricultural and animal health division within RELX covering Media, Software, Integration & Connectivity and Data & Analytics. Prior to this role, Graeme was the CEO of RELX’s Construction Data & Analytics business in North America with a background in data, product and IT innovation across a complex portfolio of companies in Europe, North America and Australasia.
Graeme has been in RELX for 24 years driving a range of strategic initiatives and building strong teams that are well motivated, involved and having fun. As part of overall strategic alignment, successfully delivered the divestment of a number of divisions whilst ensuring that these units were well set for the future. Impressive track record in transforming a range of business units across RELX and setting them on a successful growth path.
Both climate change and global food demand are expected to become more severe in the upcoming decades. In terms of consistently growing population, the agricultural industry will need to embrace better methods to feed our people with a sufficient and healthy supply of food. The Internet of Things technology (IoT) is a breakthrough technology system that evolved from the convergence of wireless technologies and the Internet. Machine-to-machine (M2M) communication systems will be embedded in an objects’ manufacture and will operate automatically without human-to-computer interaction. This will allow information to be transmitted among wireless devices amongst the machines themselves. With IoT innovation, farmers and growers will be able to boost productivity, strengthen pest control and reduce possible energy waste during cultivation.
A confluence of factors have converged to afford the opportunity to apply data science at large scale to agricultural production. The demand for agricultural outputs is growing and there is a need to meet this demand by utilizing increasingly mechanized precision agriculture and enormous data volumes collected to intelligently optimize agriculture outputs. We will consider the machine learning challenges related to optimizing global food production.
Commercial & research landscape for smart irrigation systems. A survey of commercial product offerings, research prototypes and approaches to smart irrigation. I also cover the why there is such a dire need to conserve water and increase yield.
Guidelines for governance of data sharing in agri foodSjaak Wolfert
Big Data is becoming a new asset in the agri-food sector including enterprise data from operational systems, sensor data, farm equipment data, etc. Recently, Big Data applications are being implemented to improve farm and chain performance in agri-food networks. Still, many companies are refraining from sharing data because of fear of governance issues such as data insecurity, or lack of privacy or liability, among others. To overcome such barriers for developments with Big Data, this paper aims at: 1) analysing governance issues in agri-food networks, and 2) introducing a set of guidelines for data-sharing. Based on a literature review, a framework for analysing agri-food networks was developed, with internal governance factors (efficiency, effectiveness, inclusiveness, legitimacy & accountability, credibility and transparency) and external governance factors (political, economic, social, technological, legal and environmental factors). The framework contributes to development of a set of draft guidelines. Accordingly, for each factor, the guidelines address issues, best practices and lessons learned from other projects and initiatives. The approach developed in this paper creates a baseline for possible future developments of Big data in terms of 1) upscaling of the guidelines at a global level, 2) refining and fine-tuning of the guidelines for context specific agri-food networks, and 3) contributing to solving governance challenges in data sharing. In the future, the relevance of Big Data in the agri-food domain is expected to increase, and so are the contributions of this approach.
Large ICT-projects in Agri-Food in EuropeSjaak Wolfert
This is a presentation about the background, development and state-of-the-art of large ICT-projects in Agri-Food that are going on in Europe: Internet of Food and Farm 2020 (IoF2020) and SmartAgriHubs.
New technologies such as the Internet of Things and Cloud Computing are expected to leverage the current
trend of Smart Farming, introducing more sensors, robots and artificial intelligence, encompassed by the
phenomenon of Big Data.
This presentation will give a quick insight into the state-of-the-art of Big Data applications in Smart Farming
and identify the related challenges that have to be addressed. It shows that the scope of Big Data
applications in Smart Farming goes beyond the farm; it is influencing the entire food supply chain. Big data
are being used to provide predictive insights in farming operations, drive real-time operational decisions, and
redesign business processes for game-changing business models.
It is expected that Big Data will cause major shifts in roles and power relations among different players in
current food supply chain networks. The landscape of stakeholders exhibits an interesting game between
powerful tech companies, venture capitalists and often small startups and new entrants. At the same time
there are several public institutions that publish open data, under the condition that the privacy of persons
must be guaranteed. The future of Smart Farming may unravel in a continuum of two extreme scenarios: 1)
closed, proprietary systems or 2) open, collaborative systems.
The development of data and application infrastructures (platforms and standards) and their institutional
embedment will play a crucial role in the battle between these scenarios. A major challenge is therefore to
cope with governance issues and define suitable business models for data sharing in different supply chain
scenarios.
Global IoT in Agriculture Market Analysis ReportNarayanSharma67
According to MarkNtel Advisors’ market research report titled “Global IoT in Agriculture Market Analysis, 2020”, the IoT in Agriculture market across the globe is forecast to grow at the CAGR of 10.20% during 2020-25.
AGRIS (International System for Agricultural Science and Technology) is a global public domain database with more than 4 million structured bibliographical records on agricultural science and technology.
Mining large amounts of existing crop, soil, and climate data, and analyzing new, non-experimental data can help optimize production and make agriculture more resilient to climate change.
Smart Farming is a development that emphasizes the use of information and communication technology in the
cyber-physical farm management cycle. New technologies such as the Internet of Things and Cloud Computing
are expected to leverage this development and introduce more robots and artificial intelligence in farming.
This is encompassed by the phenomenon of Big Data, massive volumes of data with a wide variety that can be
captured, analysed and used for decision-making. This review aims to gain insight into the state-of-the-art of
Big Data applications in Smart Farming and identify the related socio-economic challenges to be addressed. Following
a structured approach, a conceptual framework for analysiswas developed that can also be used for future
studies on this topic. The review shows that the scope of Big Data applications in Smart Farming goes beyond
primary production; it is influencing the entire food supply chain. Big data are being used to provide predictive
insights in farming operations, drive real-time operational decisions, and redesign business processes for
game-changing business models. Several authors therefore suggest that Big Data will cause major shifts in
roles and power relationsamong different players in current food supply chain networks. The landscape of stakeholders
exhibits an interesting gamebetween powerful tech companies, venture capitalists and often small startups
and new entrants. At the same time there are several public institutions that publish open data, under the
condition that the privacy of persons must be guaranteed. The future of Smart Farming may unravel in a continuum
of two extreme scenarios: 1) closed, proprietary systems in which the farmer is part of a highly integrated
food supply chain or 2) open, collaborative systems inwhich the farmer and every other stakeholder in the chain
network is flexible in choosing business partners as well for the technology as for the food production side. The
further development of data and application infrastructures (platforms and standards) and their institutional
embedment will play a crucial role in the battle between these scenarios. From a socio-economic perspective,
the authors propose to give research priority to organizational issues concerning governance issues and suitable
business models for data sharing in different supply chain scenarios.
Extentia designed for one of its global agribusiness clients, an Android mobile app which tracks farm cultivation and yields. The app enabled their field supervisors to collect data accurately and make real-time decisions in sync with the headquarters. This project serves as a good example of Extentia’s experience and expertise in digital transformation solutions, agriculture domain knowledge and enterprise mobility solutions.
Read more at: http://www.extentia.com/blog/digital-transformation-in-agriculture
http://www.extentia.com/agriculture/
Dr. John Fulton - Using Precision Ag & Machinery to Enhance Production and Re...John Blue
Using Precision Ag & Machinery to Enhance Production and Reduce Environmental Risks. - Dr. John Fulton, from the 2018 Conservation Tillage and Technology Conference, March 6 - 7, Ada, OH, USA.
More presentations at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZBwPfKdlk4SB63zZy16kyA
agroNET- a farmer's "personal agronomist"- is a set of modular components and ready to use cloud services designed to provide extensive agriculture expertise in an easily accessible and usable format. State of the art solutions; tailored to fit farmer’s needs; easily customizable; improving agricultural production in no time! These smart agriculture solutions can be licensed under agroNET or under our client’s own brand.
[Webinar recording in last slide or at https://youtu.be/DMg9UI7Ur0M, 26/3/2018]
As part of its work on farmers’ data rights and following up on the face-to-face course on Farmers’ Access to Data organized in Centurion in November 2017, GFAR collaborates with the Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition initiative (GODAN) and the Technical Center for Agricultural and Rural Cooperarion (CTA) on a series of webinars on data-driven agriculture, its opportunities and its challenges.
Overview of webinar #3
This webinar is a continuation of exploring digital agriculture for smallholder farmers. The first webinar provided an overview of digital agriculture, the trends impacting it, and it advantages and challenges for smallholder farmers. The second identified specific data needed by farmers, as well as potential sources.
“Crossing the Donga” will provide smallholder farmers, and those who support them, specific methods for ensuring farmer-centric solutions. The webinar will examine some of the key challenges that are blocking adoption of digital architecture by smallholder farmers. Attendees will learn a process for mapping their data needs, based on their goals and key tasks. Attendees will learn the foundational market model, and how to create value for success.
About the presenter
Dan Berne is a highly regarded professional business growth strategist with over 30 years’ experience. Dan led the effort to create an Ag Irrigation market strategy for the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA). He also conducted grower experience studies to help identify barriers to grower adoption of energy saving practices. Dan wrote or co-wrote many of the NEEA Ag Irrigation reports. Dan serves as the Project Manager on AgGateway’s Precision Ag Irrigation Language data standards project. He is an affiliate of the Chasm Institute, and a certified practitioner of Innovation Games.
Dan started the “Lagom Ag Initiative” within his company to help accelerate the adoption of precision farming practices and improve the use of digital agricultural methodologies. Lagom is a Swedish word that means “just enough.” It is also used to mean “simply perfect.” It fits our philosophy of helping farmers use just enough water, just enough fertilizers, just enough energy to be profitable while increasing or maintaining yield.
“Connecting data streams to make irrigation science easier to implement” by Justin Gibson at the 2023 Water for Food Global Conference. A recording of the presentation can be found on the conference playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSBeKOIXsg3JNyPowwJj6NDSpx4vlnCYj.
Both climate change and global food demand are expected to become more severe in the upcoming decades. In terms of consistently growing population, the agricultural industry will need to embrace better methods to feed our people with a sufficient and healthy supply of food. The Internet of Things technology (IoT) is a breakthrough technology system that evolved from the convergence of wireless technologies and the Internet. Machine-to-machine (M2M) communication systems will be embedded in an objects’ manufacture and will operate automatically without human-to-computer interaction. This will allow information to be transmitted among wireless devices amongst the machines themselves. With IoT innovation, farmers and growers will be able to boost productivity, strengthen pest control and reduce possible energy waste during cultivation.
A confluence of factors have converged to afford the opportunity to apply data science at large scale to agricultural production. The demand for agricultural outputs is growing and there is a need to meet this demand by utilizing increasingly mechanized precision agriculture and enormous data volumes collected to intelligently optimize agriculture outputs. We will consider the machine learning challenges related to optimizing global food production.
Commercial & research landscape for smart irrigation systems. A survey of commercial product offerings, research prototypes and approaches to smart irrigation. I also cover the why there is such a dire need to conserve water and increase yield.
Guidelines for governance of data sharing in agri foodSjaak Wolfert
Big Data is becoming a new asset in the agri-food sector including enterprise data from operational systems, sensor data, farm equipment data, etc. Recently, Big Data applications are being implemented to improve farm and chain performance in agri-food networks. Still, many companies are refraining from sharing data because of fear of governance issues such as data insecurity, or lack of privacy or liability, among others. To overcome such barriers for developments with Big Data, this paper aims at: 1) analysing governance issues in agri-food networks, and 2) introducing a set of guidelines for data-sharing. Based on a literature review, a framework for analysing agri-food networks was developed, with internal governance factors (efficiency, effectiveness, inclusiveness, legitimacy & accountability, credibility and transparency) and external governance factors (political, economic, social, technological, legal and environmental factors). The framework contributes to development of a set of draft guidelines. Accordingly, for each factor, the guidelines address issues, best practices and lessons learned from other projects and initiatives. The approach developed in this paper creates a baseline for possible future developments of Big data in terms of 1) upscaling of the guidelines at a global level, 2) refining and fine-tuning of the guidelines for context specific agri-food networks, and 3) contributing to solving governance challenges in data sharing. In the future, the relevance of Big Data in the agri-food domain is expected to increase, and so are the contributions of this approach.
Large ICT-projects in Agri-Food in EuropeSjaak Wolfert
This is a presentation about the background, development and state-of-the-art of large ICT-projects in Agri-Food that are going on in Europe: Internet of Food and Farm 2020 (IoF2020) and SmartAgriHubs.
New technologies such as the Internet of Things and Cloud Computing are expected to leverage the current
trend of Smart Farming, introducing more sensors, robots and artificial intelligence, encompassed by the
phenomenon of Big Data.
This presentation will give a quick insight into the state-of-the-art of Big Data applications in Smart Farming
and identify the related challenges that have to be addressed. It shows that the scope of Big Data
applications in Smart Farming goes beyond the farm; it is influencing the entire food supply chain. Big data
are being used to provide predictive insights in farming operations, drive real-time operational decisions, and
redesign business processes for game-changing business models.
It is expected that Big Data will cause major shifts in roles and power relations among different players in
current food supply chain networks. The landscape of stakeholders exhibits an interesting game between
powerful tech companies, venture capitalists and often small startups and new entrants. At the same time
there are several public institutions that publish open data, under the condition that the privacy of persons
must be guaranteed. The future of Smart Farming may unravel in a continuum of two extreme scenarios: 1)
closed, proprietary systems or 2) open, collaborative systems.
The development of data and application infrastructures (platforms and standards) and their institutional
embedment will play a crucial role in the battle between these scenarios. A major challenge is therefore to
cope with governance issues and define suitable business models for data sharing in different supply chain
scenarios.
Global IoT in Agriculture Market Analysis ReportNarayanSharma67
According to MarkNtel Advisors’ market research report titled “Global IoT in Agriculture Market Analysis, 2020”, the IoT in Agriculture market across the globe is forecast to grow at the CAGR of 10.20% during 2020-25.
AGRIS (International System for Agricultural Science and Technology) is a global public domain database with more than 4 million structured bibliographical records on agricultural science and technology.
Mining large amounts of existing crop, soil, and climate data, and analyzing new, non-experimental data can help optimize production and make agriculture more resilient to climate change.
Smart Farming is a development that emphasizes the use of information and communication technology in the
cyber-physical farm management cycle. New technologies such as the Internet of Things and Cloud Computing
are expected to leverage this development and introduce more robots and artificial intelligence in farming.
This is encompassed by the phenomenon of Big Data, massive volumes of data with a wide variety that can be
captured, analysed and used for decision-making. This review aims to gain insight into the state-of-the-art of
Big Data applications in Smart Farming and identify the related socio-economic challenges to be addressed. Following
a structured approach, a conceptual framework for analysiswas developed that can also be used for future
studies on this topic. The review shows that the scope of Big Data applications in Smart Farming goes beyond
primary production; it is influencing the entire food supply chain. Big data are being used to provide predictive
insights in farming operations, drive real-time operational decisions, and redesign business processes for
game-changing business models. Several authors therefore suggest that Big Data will cause major shifts in
roles and power relationsamong different players in current food supply chain networks. The landscape of stakeholders
exhibits an interesting gamebetween powerful tech companies, venture capitalists and often small startups
and new entrants. At the same time there are several public institutions that publish open data, under the
condition that the privacy of persons must be guaranteed. The future of Smart Farming may unravel in a continuum
of two extreme scenarios: 1) closed, proprietary systems in which the farmer is part of a highly integrated
food supply chain or 2) open, collaborative systems inwhich the farmer and every other stakeholder in the chain
network is flexible in choosing business partners as well for the technology as for the food production side. The
further development of data and application infrastructures (platforms and standards) and their institutional
embedment will play a crucial role in the battle between these scenarios. From a socio-economic perspective,
the authors propose to give research priority to organizational issues concerning governance issues and suitable
business models for data sharing in different supply chain scenarios.
Extentia designed for one of its global agribusiness clients, an Android mobile app which tracks farm cultivation and yields. The app enabled their field supervisors to collect data accurately and make real-time decisions in sync with the headquarters. This project serves as a good example of Extentia’s experience and expertise in digital transformation solutions, agriculture domain knowledge and enterprise mobility solutions.
Read more at: http://www.extentia.com/blog/digital-transformation-in-agriculture
http://www.extentia.com/agriculture/
Dr. John Fulton - Using Precision Ag & Machinery to Enhance Production and Re...John Blue
Using Precision Ag & Machinery to Enhance Production and Reduce Environmental Risks. - Dr. John Fulton, from the 2018 Conservation Tillage and Technology Conference, March 6 - 7, Ada, OH, USA.
More presentations at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZBwPfKdlk4SB63zZy16kyA
agroNET- a farmer's "personal agronomist"- is a set of modular components and ready to use cloud services designed to provide extensive agriculture expertise in an easily accessible and usable format. State of the art solutions; tailored to fit farmer’s needs; easily customizable; improving agricultural production in no time! These smart agriculture solutions can be licensed under agroNET or under our client’s own brand.
[Webinar recording in last slide or at https://youtu.be/DMg9UI7Ur0M, 26/3/2018]
As part of its work on farmers’ data rights and following up on the face-to-face course on Farmers’ Access to Data organized in Centurion in November 2017, GFAR collaborates with the Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition initiative (GODAN) and the Technical Center for Agricultural and Rural Cooperarion (CTA) on a series of webinars on data-driven agriculture, its opportunities and its challenges.
Overview of webinar #3
This webinar is a continuation of exploring digital agriculture for smallholder farmers. The first webinar provided an overview of digital agriculture, the trends impacting it, and it advantages and challenges for smallholder farmers. The second identified specific data needed by farmers, as well as potential sources.
“Crossing the Donga” will provide smallholder farmers, and those who support them, specific methods for ensuring farmer-centric solutions. The webinar will examine some of the key challenges that are blocking adoption of digital architecture by smallholder farmers. Attendees will learn a process for mapping their data needs, based on their goals and key tasks. Attendees will learn the foundational market model, and how to create value for success.
About the presenter
Dan Berne is a highly regarded professional business growth strategist with over 30 years’ experience. Dan led the effort to create an Ag Irrigation market strategy for the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA). He also conducted grower experience studies to help identify barriers to grower adoption of energy saving practices. Dan wrote or co-wrote many of the NEEA Ag Irrigation reports. Dan serves as the Project Manager on AgGateway’s Precision Ag Irrigation Language data standards project. He is an affiliate of the Chasm Institute, and a certified practitioner of Innovation Games.
Dan started the “Lagom Ag Initiative” within his company to help accelerate the adoption of precision farming practices and improve the use of digital agricultural methodologies. Lagom is a Swedish word that means “just enough.” It is also used to mean “simply perfect.” It fits our philosophy of helping farmers use just enough water, just enough fertilizers, just enough energy to be profitable while increasing or maintaining yield.
“Connecting data streams to make irrigation science easier to implement” by Justin Gibson at the 2023 Water for Food Global Conference. A recording of the presentation can be found on the conference playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSBeKOIXsg3JNyPowwJj6NDSpx4vlnCYj.
Telematics, automation, control systems in precision ag 2014John Nowatzki
Current technology for managing digital farm data. Includes new commercial data management programs that provide detailed field-level prescription maps and agronomic recommendations.
Jeremy Wilson - Return On Investment When Using Technology And DataJohn Blue
Return On Investment When Using Technology And Data - Jeremy Wilson, from the 2018 Conservation Tillage and Technology Conference, March 6 - 7, Ada, OH, USA.
More presentations at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZBwPfKdlk4SB63zZy16kyA
Food 4.0: Data Driven Agri-Food SystemsDeepak Pareek
Presentation delivered as Expert Speaker on "Food 4.0: Technology to make food and agriculture sector SAFE for Consumers EFFICIENT for Stake Holders and PROFITABLE for Growers" at CTO Forum focused on the "Impact of Artificial Intelligence" hosted by Tamil Nadu Technology Development & Promotion Centre at CII South Zone Headquarters on 16th November 2018.
Alejandro Nin-Pratt, Jawoo Koo, and David J Spielman, International Food Policy Research Institute
Presented at the ReSAKSS-Asia conference “Agriculture and Rural Transformation in Asia: Past Experiences and Future Opportunities”. An international conference jointly organized by ReSAKSS-Asia, IFPRI, TDRI, and TVSEP project of Leibniz Universit Hannover with support from USAID and Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) at the Dusit Thani Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand December 12–14, 2017.
Presentation on the Design of a System for Infomration Transfer to Reduce Administrative Burdens in the Agrifood sector. The plan is part of the EU research project MEF4CAP as a case study. Presented at the Igls Forum 2021
Opening Data, Information and Knowledge for Agriculture Development FRANK Water
Ajit Maru,Senior Knowledge Officer at Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the UN, OiC, SRO at Global Forum on Agricultural Research presented where the international agricutural open access movement is heading towards.
Digital Agriculture – A key enabler for nutritional security and SDGs by Dr D...ICRISAT
Digital Agriculture - ICT and data ecosystems to support the development and delivery of timely, targeted information and services to make farming profitable and sustainable while delivering safe nutritious and affordable food for ALL.
Indian agriculture: Mechanization to DigitizationICRISAT
India is characterized by small farm holdings. More than 80% of the land holdings are less than 2 ha (5 acres). About 55% of India’s population is engaged in Agriculture with 40% farm mechanization. Due to non-remunerative nature of farming, more than 50% farmers in India are in debt. This situation has constrained farmers from investing in mechanization and other technologies.
-> ICRISAT Director General Dr David Bergvinson's presentation at the CII Agri business and Mechanization Summit held in New Delhi, India on 01 Sep 2015.
GFAR / GODAN / CTA webinar #2 "Key data for farmers" - Stephen Kalyesubula - ...GCARD Conferences
[Webinar recording in last slide or at https://youtu.be/taHHp3UbRZI, 28/2/2018]
As part of its work on farmers’ data rights and following up on the face-to-face course on Farmers’ Access to Data organized in Centurion in November 2017, GFAR collaborates with the Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition initiative (GODAN) and the Technical Center for Agricultural and Rural Cooperarion (CTA) on a series of webinars on data-driven agriculture, its opportunities and its challenges.
Overview of webinar #2
Data becomes significant if it can be linked to information, knowledge and wisdom. Once processed it can be used to generate detailed insights into farm operations and the environment. It assists big and small holder farmers in making data-based operational decisions to optimize yield and boost revenue while minimizing expenses, the chances of crop failure, and environmental impact.
For data driven agriculture to happen we have to distinguish the data streams in the food chain from pre-planting to consumption, for example: data collected and managed from the farm by farmers which can be either static or dynamic; data coming from external sources like market prices and data that is exported for aggregation by other farm service providers. However, farmers may not be in a position to realize those streams and possibly what data and information is required to answer the food chain questions, for example: What produce can I grow where I live? When should I sow/plant/harvest/market it? How should I sow/plant/harvest/market it? All these questions can be answered if the factual data or information is used or made available to the farmers.
Webinar Goals
Make the participants understand the different key data streams, flow and sources that are vital to agricultural value chains. Participants will be in position to identify the data they own or collect on their farms and its usefulness, understand the difference between human and machine farm data, identify the part in the agricultural value chain where data, and which data, is needed most.
About the presenter
Stephen Kalyesubula is a Computer Engineering and an agri-preneur from Makerere University. He is a graduate researcher at iLabs@Mak Project – Makerere University and his key technological interests include: Data science, robotics, Internet of things, AI and design thinking. He is among the directors of Youths In Technology and Development Uganda whose mission is to create tech communities of practice where appropriate use of technology promotes sustainable development in agriculture, health and education.
GFAR webinar "The future of online media" - webdesign trendsGCARD Conferences
This presentation was used during our GFAR webinar on "The future of online media", announced here: https://blog.gfar.net/2016/10/09/upcoming-webinar-predicting-future-online-media/
Check out the live webinar recording here: https://youtu.be/N8UkwOoI9hQ
GFAR webinar "building a bridge between scientists and communicators"GCARD Conferences
These is the slide deck of presentations used during the webinar "Building a bridge between scientists and communicators"
This webinar was organised by GFAR
It was introduced in this blogpost: https://blog.gfar.net/2017/01/03/webinar-scientists-and-communicators-friends-or-foes/
The video recording of the actual webinar can be found on our Youtube channel: https://youtu.be/HK8Q0JgAaGQ
These is the slide deck of presentations used during the webinar "Email newsletters"
This webinar was organised by GFAR
It was introduced in this blogpost: https://blog.gfar.net/2017/02/05/upcoming-comms-webinar-email-based-newsletters-not-a-thing-of-the-past/
The video recording of the actual webinar can be found on our Youtube channel: https://youtu.be/2NPpCxcJJUc
GFAR Webinar "Finding and using pictures for your website or blog"GCARD Conferences
These is the slide deck of presentations used during the webinar "Website Revamps"
This webinar was organised by GFAR
It was introduced in this blogpost: https://blog.gfar.net/2016/06/13/webinar-alert-is-a-picture-worth-a-thousand-words/
The video recording of the actual webinar can be found on our Youtube channel: https://youtu.be/mJ-q1CxK_rQ
These is the slide deck of presentations used during the webinar "Basic SEO"
This webinar was organised by GFAR
It was introduced in this blogpost: https://blog.gfar.net/2016/08/30/gfar-webinars-on-search-engine-optimization-and-website-revamps/
The video recording of the actual webinar can be found on our Youtube channel: https://youtu.be/kcty662Hcss
GFAR webinar on "Measuring social media performance"GCARD Conferences
These is the slide deck of presentations used during the webinar "Innovative Annual Reports"
This webinar was co-organised by GFAR and CGIAR.
It was introduced in this blogpost: https://blog.gfar.net/2016/01/18/flash-two-more-gfar-social-media-webinars/
These is the slide deck of presentations used during the webinar "Innovative Annual Reports"
This webinar was co-organised by GFAR and CGIAR
It was introduced in this blogpost: https://blog.gfar.net/2015/11/30/free-induction-webinar-social-media-for-professionals/
The video recording of the actual webinar can be found on our Youtube channel: https://youtu.be/WO1zUOOy1nA
These is the slide deck of presentations used during the webinar "Innovative Annual Reports"
This webinar was organised by GFAR
It was introduced in this blogpost: https://blog.gfar.net/2017/11/26/webinar-innovating-annual-reports/
The video recording of the actual webinar can be found on our Youtube channel: https://youtu.be/BAsPhl0H4Ec
GFAR-TAP webinar on "Sharing Knowledge on Capacity Development for Agricultur...GCARD Conferences
These is the slide deck of presentations used during the webinar "Sharing Knowledge on Capacity Development for Agricultural Innovation through TAPipedia"
This webinar was co-organised by GFAR and TAP.
It was introduced in this blogpost: https://blog.gfar.net/2017/10/24/gfartap-webinar-sharing-knowledge-on-capacity-development-for-agricultural-innovation-through-tapipedia/
The video recording of the actual webinar can be found on our Youtube channel: https://youtu.be/_cHK5QK2rPk
GFAR COSA GLF webinar on "Effective Tools for Understanding, Managing and Acc...GCARD Conferences
These is the slide deck of presentations used during the webinar "Effective Tools for Understanding, Managing and Accelerating Impact"
This webinar was co-organised by GFAR, COSA and GLF and is part of a wider series on agricultural research & innovation,eco-systems management and sustainable development.
It was introduced in this blogpost: https://blog.gfar.net/2017/10/13/join-cosa-gfar-impact-webinar/
The video recording of the actual webinar can be found on our Youtube channel: Effective https://youtu.be/RtYlWo_Ok5o
With thanks to our co-hosts in this webinar: (COSA) Global Landscapes forum (GLF) and Committee on Sustainability Assessment (COSA) -
https://thecosa.org/
http://landscapes.org
GFAR webinar: "The art and science of webcasting and webstreaming"GCARD Conferences
This presentation was used in the GFAR webinar on "The art and science of webcasting and webstreaming"
The announcement blogpost was published here: https://blog.gfar.net/2017/10/05/gfar-webinar-web-casting/
You can find the full recording of this webinar here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs7IsZQi5zg
GFAR webinar: "Farmers’ Rights: Complementarity between Researchers and Farmers"GCARD Conferences
This presentation was used in the GFAR webinar on "Farmers’ Rights: How Complementarity between Researchers and Farmers Impact the Conservation of Genetic Diversity, Food Security and Livelihoods of the Poor”
The announcement blogpost was published here: https://blog.gfar.net/2017/08/31/gfar-webinar-communications-success-stories/
You can find the full recording of this webinar here: https://youtu.be/N16hHmL8xNM
This presentation was used in the GFAR webinar on "Beyond decision making: Foresight as a process for improving attitude towards change" --
The announcement blogpost was published here: https://blog.gfar.net/2017/08/25/join-our-gfar-webinar-farmers-rights/
You can find the full recording of this webinar here: https://youtu.be/RxuLR2FWYYI
Beyond decision making: Foresight as a process for improving attitude towards...GCARD Conferences
This presentation was used in the GFAR webinar on "Beyond decision making: Foresight as a process for improving attitude towards change" --
The announcement blogpost was published here: https://blog.gfar.net/2017/06/07/gfar-webinar-beyond-decision-making-foresight-as-a-process-for-improving-attitude-towards-change/
You can find the full recording of this webinar here: https://youtu.be/8tzz5vNEhZ4
Farmers’ Rights: Achieving Complementarity Between the Informal and Formal Se...GCARD Conferences
This presentation was used in the GFAR webinar on "Farmers’ Rights: Achieving Complementarity Between the Informal and Formal Seed Systems". -- Announcement blogpost was here: https://blog.gfar.net/2017/05/10/gfar-webinar-farmers-rights-achieving-complementarity-between-the-informal-and-formal-seed-systems/
...and the actual webinar recording can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ9c2_nbtBc
GFAR webinar on farm radio, community radio and participatory radioGCARD Conferences
This presentation was used in the GFAR webinar on "farm radio, community radio and participatory radio" . -- Announcement here: https://blog.gfar.net/2017/05/31/join-gfar-webinar-on-farm-radio/
...and the actual webinar recording can be found here: https://youtu.be/TEiC1Zo3KQ0
This presentation was used in the GFAR webinar on Participatory Video. -- Announcement here: https://blog.gfar.net/2017/04/24/join-our-next-webinar-on-participatory-video/
...and the actual webinar recording can be found here:
Participatory communications and uptake communicationsGCARD Conferences
This presentation was used during our GFAR webinar on "Participatory communications and uptake communications", announced here: https://blog.gfar.net/2017/03/14/challenging-development-and-research-communications-two-more-gfar-webinars/
Check out the live webinar recording here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHjT6Yj1Q44
Russian anarchist and anti-war movement in the third year of full-scale warAntti Rautiainen
Anarchist group ANA Regensburg hosted my online-presentation on 16th of May 2024, in which I discussed tactics of anti-war activism in Russia, and reasons why the anti-war movement has not been able to make an impact to change the course of events yet. Cases of anarchists repressed for anti-war activities are presented, as well as strategies of support for political prisoners, and modest successes in supporting their struggles.
Thumbnail picture is by MediaZona, you may read their report on anti-war arson attacks in Russia here: https://en.zona.media/article/2022/10/13/burn-map
Links:
Autonomous Action
http://Avtonom.org
Anarchist Black Cross Moscow
http://Avtonom.org/abc
Solidarity Zone
https://t.me/solidarity_zone
Memorial
https://memopzk.org/, https://t.me/pzk_memorial
OVD-Info
https://en.ovdinfo.org/antiwar-ovd-info-guide
RosUznik
https://rosuznik.org/
Uznik Online
http://uznikonline.tilda.ws/
Russian Reader
https://therussianreader.com/
ABC Irkutsk
https://abc38.noblogs.org/
Send mail to prisoners from abroad:
http://Prisonmail.online
YouTube: https://youtu.be/c5nSOdU48O8
Spotify: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/libertarianlifecoach/episodes/Russian-anarchist-and-anti-war-movement-in-the-third-year-of-full-scale-war-e2k8ai4
Understanding the Challenges of Street ChildrenSERUDS INDIA
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Donate Us
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Jennifer Schaus and Associates hosts a complimentary webinar series on The FAR in 2024. Join the webinars on Wednesdays and Fridays at noon, eastern.
Recordings are on YouTube and the company website.
https://www.youtube.com/@jenniferschaus/videos
Up the Ratios Bylaws - a Comprehensive Process of Our Organizationuptheratios
Up the Ratios is a non-profit organization dedicated to bridging the gap in STEM education for underprivileged students by providing free, high-quality learning opportunities in robotics and other STEM fields. Our mission is to empower the next generation of innovators, thinkers, and problem-solvers by offering a range of educational programs that foster curiosity, creativity, and critical thinking.
At Up the Ratios, we believe that every student, regardless of their socio-economic background, should have access to the tools and knowledge needed to succeed in today's technology-driven world. To achieve this, we host a variety of free classes, workshops, summer camps, and live lectures tailored to students from underserved communities. Our programs are designed to be engaging and hands-on, allowing students to explore the exciting world of robotics and STEM through practical, real-world applications.
Our free classes cover fundamental concepts in robotics, coding, and engineering, providing students with a strong foundation in these critical areas. Through our interactive workshops, students can dive deeper into specific topics, working on projects that challenge them to apply what they've learned and think creatively. Our summer camps offer an immersive experience where students can collaborate on larger projects, develop their teamwork skills, and gain confidence in their abilities.
In addition to our local programs, Up the Ratios is committed to making a global impact. We take donations of new and gently used robotics parts, which we then distribute to students and educational institutions in other countries. These donations help ensure that young learners worldwide have the resources they need to explore and excel in STEM fields. By supporting education in this way, we aim to nurture a global community of future leaders and innovators.
Our live lectures feature guest speakers from various STEM disciplines, including engineers, scientists, and industry professionals who share their knowledge and experiences with our students. These lectures provide valuable insights into potential career paths and inspire students to pursue their passions in STEM.
Up the Ratios relies on the generosity of donors and volunteers to continue our work. Contributions of time, expertise, and financial support are crucial to sustaining our programs and expanding our reach. Whether you're an individual passionate about education, a professional in the STEM field, or a company looking to give back to the community, there are many ways to get involved and make a difference.
We are proud of the positive impact we've had on the lives of countless students, many of whom have gone on to pursue higher education and careers in STEM. By providing these young minds with the tools and opportunities they need to succeed, we are not only changing their futures but also contributing to the advancement of technology and innovation on a broader scale.
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2. Webinars Co-convened with:
• The Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR)
• The Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN)
• The Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA)
4. Webinar Topics
1. What is data driven agriculture and why does it matter?
2. Trends driving digital agriculture and precision technologies
1. Data use across the agriculture value chain
2. On-Farm and Off-Farm Data Uses
3. Issues and Challenges
4. Farm Management Information Systems
5. Irrigation Use Cases
5. Data-Driven Agriculture
• Thoughtful use of big data to
supplement on-farm precision
agriculture
• Right Farm Data
at the Right Time
to help farmers make Better
Decisions
5
“Data is just a series of binary numbers. What you do with the data is what counts.”
- Andre Laperriere, Executive Director of the Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition Initiative
6. Agriculture is increasingly data driven, information rich,
and knowledge intensive to cope with challenges of:
• Supply chain costs
• Participation in globally competitive markets
• Increased need for traceability from farm inputs to the end consumer
• Smarter use of natural resources, especially water, land and soil
nutrients
• Unpredictable and/or extreme aberrations of weather and climate
change
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7. Climate Change
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• Extreme precipitation and soil erosion
• Increased droughts
• Increased floods
• Variability in weather patterns
• Weeds, diseases, pests
• Significantly adjusting crop plans
• Increased risks; higher costs & prices
• Challenging to tie outcomes to causes
UNCERTAINTY!
8. 8From the PA Consulting Group, based on n Harvard Business Review
11/2014: ‘How Smart, Connected Products Are Transforming Competition’
Farm Data Systems Are Now Evolving Quickly
9. Data-Driven Decisions & Activities
• Tilling method
• Crop, seeds, plant varieties
• When and how much to irrigate
• Amount of fertilizer
• Harvest time
• Adding drainage tiles
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• Spatial/terrain analysis
• Soil analysis
• Weather monitoring
• Variable rate application
• Recordkeeping
10. Other Uses of Data for Farmers
• Expense Tracking/ROI
• Herd/Flock Mapping
• Crop Monitoring
• Field Operations Alerts and
Actions
• Autonomous Operation of
Equipment
• Yield/Profit Forecasting
• Tracking and Tracing
• Government Program Data
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Photo Credit: ProFarmer
11. Precision Farming Market
Component Services Application Region
Automation &
Control Systems
• Application control
device
• Guidance System
• Remote Sensing
• Variable Rate
• Driverless Vehicles
Sensing &
Monitoring
• Soil Sensors
• Water Sensors
• Climate Sensors
Wireless Modules
• Bluetooth
• WiFi
• Zigbee
• RF
Software
• Web-Based
• Cloud-Based
Land Use
Climate Modeling
Weather Monitoring
Crop Planning
Systems Integration
& Consulting
Farm Operations
Managed Services
• Data Collection
• Analytics
• Machine Learning
Supply Chain
Management
Field Mapping
Soil Analysis
Crop Scouting
Weather Tracking
Variable Rate
Seeding
Irrigation
Yield Monitoring
Inventory
Management
Farm Labor
Management
Marketing
Data
North America
South America
EUR
Asia Pacific
Middle East
Northern Africa
Sub Saharan Africa
14. Farm
Profitability
Efficiency
Sustain-
ability
• Lower costs of farm operations
• Save/reinvest time
• Reduce difficulty and frustration
• Strategically choosing the right crops and
markets
• Analyzing the farm’s costs and margins
• Managing economic aspects of the farm
• Managing farm resources
• Field operations practices
• Managing social aspects of the farm
Areas of Focus
for Data Used,
and /or Created
by, Farmers
Focus of Ag Data & Technology
15. Job #1 for Farm Management Information Systems
(FMIS): Help Farmers Be More Resilient
• Respond to changing conditions
• Capture relevant observations and
measurements
• Use the data for better planning
• Manage crop growth in real time and and
under changing field conditions
• Earn more with up-to-date pricing
information
• Review the results and improve for the next
cycle
• Improve traceability to/from field through
the supply chain
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17. Source: Maru, A. et al. Digital and data-driven agriculture – Enhancing Use of Data by Smallholders. Pre-print, 2018
Data and information that farmers
use can be categorized as:
• Data that the farmer generates
and uses for farm management
• Data that the farmer gets from
outside his farm and uses for
farm management
. May be open-sourced or
privately owned.
• Data that the farmer generates
and is used outside his/her farm
by either industry or government
19. CapeFarmMapper
CapeFarmMapper is a Web Mapping Application
Developed and maintained in-house by the Western Cape Department of Agriculture
To assist with decision making for:
Agriculture practices
Environmental management
Farm planning
Land evaluation
Land reform
Access to data
Spatial database
Web services
View, query, search and
create spatial data
Various spatial data sets URL: https://gis.elsenburg.com/apps/cfm
Geospatial Online Web Tools
20. AgriStats Portal
Geospatial Online Web Tools
URL: https://www.elsenburg.com/gis/apps/agristats
• Agricultural statistics for the Western Cape
• Based on the 2013 Fly-Over Project
• Summaries per Local Municipality (Crops, Infrastructure, Agritourism)
24. Example: How the Data Flows
24
Grower
Work Record
Agronomist
Crop Plan
Observations &
Measurements
Real-time Weather Info
Work order
Irrigation
Controller
Scout or
Irrigation Service
Recommendation
Reports,
Regulatory
complianceSupply Chain
Partners
& Sustainability
26. Inherent Challenges
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• Data systems want to aggregate –
farming is very location-specific
• No two growing seasons are the same
• Climate change is disrupting what
were once 10-30 year patterns
• Multiple proprietary systems often do
not work together
• Lack of expertise to sort and analyze
data and make recommendations
• Data ownership and security
27. Data Challenges
Open Source Tools Limited to Specific
Regions
Data itself can be:
• Hard to find
• Expensive and tedious to get
• Inaccurate, incomplete
• Available too late to be useful
• Lacking critical metadata
• Tedious to acquire and transfer
• Expensive to “clean”
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28. Other Barriers
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• Interoperability outside of vertical
solutions
• No two growing seasons are the
same
• Climate change is disrupting what
were once 10-30 year patterns
• Multiple proprietary systems (green
tractor working with red harvester)
• Equipment can last decades – data
systems tend to get updated every
few years – can they coordinate?
29. • Privacy
• Authentication
• Integrity
• Security from hacking
• Authorization
• Data ownership
• Data value
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Data Privacy, Security, & Ownership
33. Nitrate test strips are used to indicate the amount of nitrate moving in the root zone.
Nitrate (the main form of soluble nitrogen in soils) moves with water and is easily leached from
the soil by over-irrigation.
34. VIA On-line Data Platform
Central database
(hosted in Australia-
VIA Farms)
Tools installed
in farmer
plots
Data collected
(Numerical)
Data processed
into info (Color
patterns)
Info translated
into knowledge
Improved
Irrigation
40. Agriculture 4.0 Today
• Highly complex system
• Mergers and acquisitions for vertical
integration and leverage
• Competing constraints
• Increased need for tracking and
traceability
• Risky business looking for efficiencies
• Substantial investment in ag tech, but
specific plans not yet crystallized
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41. No Shortage of Open Standards
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AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON…
42. Create recommendation
(Advisor or DSS)
Develop farm WO/Program
(Grower agent)
FMIS or
Irrigation DSS
(Advisor/Grower agent)
Data Acquisition
System
(On-farm or 3rd party)
Initiate Irrigation
WO/Program
(Grower agent)
Open and Closed Data Flows
Field
Data
Crop
Data
Sensor
Data
Climate
Data
Other
Data
WO / Program in PAIL
std. format
Commands in
proprietary
format
Execute
WO/Program
(Equipment)
Event sequence
in proprietary format
Data sources with proprietary formats
Assemble, source work
records
(OEM / 3rd party)
Rec in PAIL
std. format
The FMIS/DSS can support or drive rec
creation in various, grower-specific
possible ways.
Data providers source data in standard
format
Historical
Record
of Irrigation
and Related
Applications
43. A Few Guiding Principles for Farmers
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• Start with the end in mind (e.g. yield and
profitability)
• Take baby steps
• It may take a few years to see the full
value
• Get a clear agreement on what data you
will provide and how it will be used
• Make sure you have support; use a trusted
provider
• Learn from one other
44. Up Next
Key Data for Farmers
• Stephen Kalyesubula
• Wednesday 28 February; 16:00 CET
Crossing the Donga – Using Data for
Farm Operations
• Monday 26 March; 16:00 CET
Mobile Applications for Farmers
• Pre-Recorded Webinar (Stephen K)
• Available in Early March
Dan introduces his work and background VERY BRIEFLY.
Here’s the topics we will be covering.
Definition and use of data in Ag. Doesn’t necessarily have to be Big Data. Doesn’t have to be every instance of data.
So, increased data and digitization on the farm…
Some of the common decision making that data can help with, supported by these 5 activities
Some uses for data
The link goes to ProFarmer which lists some of the top applications for African farmers
…as well as across the Ag supply chain
An example of off-farm data that is available
Privacy: Message contents are readable only by the sender and intended recipient.
Authentication: The sender’s identity can be verified by the receiver, and vice-versa.
Integrity: The receiver can verify that what they received is what the sender sent (i.e., the message was not altered in route).
Authorization: The sender is permitted to deliver a particular message to a receiver and to expect such message to be processed by the receiver.
Note: Circumstances dictate which combination of the five security components are required, if any are required at all.
Data Ownership and Privacy: It is critical to understand the context in which the term data privacy is used. Data privacy is often used in the context of one party providing data to another party for a narrowly specified purpose. For example one party may deliver data to another party for the purposes of transforming the data into an industry format and passing on to *final* recipient. Another example would be a pool of data owners providing data to a service provider for the purposes of receiving benchmarking reports.
In many cases, many kinds of data are *owned* by the sender and what intermediaries and final recipients may do with the data must be explicitly permitted by the data owner through written agreement. It is beyond the scope of this paper to break down types of data (in a privacy/ownership context) and the nature of agreements between data owners and other parties. These are first and foremost legal and business-relationship matters. Technology plays a role in enabling both secure and insecure data flows.
The VO Pro logo represents the “Virtual Optimizer” platform in the middle with multiple technologies all working together to intertwine and centralize into one common deliverable UI.
Virtual Optimizer not only houses and displays data in one place from multiple sources, but it also integrates each of the components so they work together and enhance the overall recommendations.