The document discusses challenges in knowledge management for agriculture and how information and communication technologies (ICT) can help address them. It gives examples of using content management systems, geographic information systems, decision support systems, and text mining to build applications like a national agriculture research information system, an indigenous knowledge system, and a virtual extension and research network in Egypt. ICT can help share and disseminate agricultural knowledge more effectively.
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This presentation by Dr Jiju Alex, Associate Professor, Kerala Agricultural University presented at the Kerala Environment Congress organised by the Centre for Environment and Development discusses the relevance of information technologies for sustainable agriculture
Information communication technologies for sustainable agriculture_Dr Jiju Al...India Water Portal
This presentation by Dr Jiju Alex, Associate Professor, Kerala Agricultural University presented at the Kerala Environment Congress organised by the Centre for Environment and Development discusses the relevance of information technologies for sustainable agriculture
A proposed venture capitalist's Futuristic E-Agriculture viewpoint for India, Siddharth Bhattacharya's Vision for making India a strong indigenously self-reliant, developed nation by 2020 having realized vision 2020.
Synthesis from the forum on ICT and Agriculture in the Context of Green GrowthGerard Sylvester
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Prepared for the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and Agriculture Conference, which is going to be held on the 13th, 14th and 15th June, in Montevideo, Uruguay.
Awareness session organised by OWSD Mauritius Chapter in collaboration with FAREI and Women in Tech Africa Mauritius Chapter at FAREI Farmer's Training School
With the growth of information and communication technologies, it is imperative that countries look at identifying sustainable ICT solutions and services to overcome some of the challenges faced by agriculture.
FAO together with ITU and other partners has been actively promoting the use of sustainable ICTs for agriculture.
http://www.fao.org/in-action/e-agriculture-strategy-guide/en/
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A proposed venture capitalist's Futuristic E-Agriculture viewpoint for India, Siddharth Bhattacharya's Vision for making India a strong indigenously self-reliant, developed nation by 2020 having realized vision 2020.
Synthesis from the forum on ICT and Agriculture in the Context of Green GrowthGerard Sylvester
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Take stock of emerging uses of ICT across sectors and of good practices in Africa and in other countries, including how ICTs are changing business models in strategic sector of Agriculture.
Prepared for the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and Agriculture Conference, which is going to be held on the 13th, 14th and 15th June, in Montevideo, Uruguay.
Awareness session organised by OWSD Mauritius Chapter in collaboration with FAREI and Women in Tech Africa Mauritius Chapter at FAREI Farmer's Training School
With the growth of information and communication technologies, it is imperative that countries look at identifying sustainable ICT solutions and services to overcome some of the challenges faced by agriculture.
FAO together with ITU and other partners has been actively promoting the use of sustainable ICTs for agriculture.
http://www.fao.org/in-action/e-agriculture-strategy-guide/en/
Think Piece presented at the “ICTs transforming agricultural science, research and technology generation” Workshop - Science Forum 2009, 16–17 June, Wageningen, The Netherlands
ICT in Agriculture, Reasons of Agricultural Information delay in rural India, Need of ICT in Indian Agriculture, Role of ICT in Indian Agriculture, ICT INITIATIVES FOR AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT
DuPont Advisory Committee on Agricultural Innovation and Productivity published The Role of Technology in Agriculture in 2013. The report focuses on meeting global food demand through science-based innovation that reaches farmers around the world.
Agricultural Technology Potential and the Role of Irrigation, by Dr. Hua Xie and Dr. Claudia Ringler, IFPRI --The Feed the Future Zone in the South and the Rest of Bangladesh:
A Comparison of Food Security Aspects
Results of the 2011-2012 IFPRI Household Survey for the
Policy Research and Strategy Support Program
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Drought is possibly the most complex and least understood of natural hazards. The effects of drought accumulate slowly and linger for years. It is estimated that 380 million people, 38% of the world’s rural poor, live in the arid and semi-arid tropics (SAT). Of those who are vulnerable to drought, more than 90% are either smallholder farmers or landless laborers. The Committee on Science and Technology for the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, in its fifth session last year, issued a note on strategies for communicating relevant information on combating the effects of drought.
Usability Engineering, Human Computer Interaction and Allied Sciences: With R...Scientific Review SR
Human Computer Interaction is actually responsible for the designing of the computing technologies keeping in mind the aspects of Interaction. Some of the fields viz. Man-Machine Interaction (MMI), User Experience Designing, User Experience Design, Human Centered Designing etc and importantly all these systems and technologies are dedicated to the designing of interface of various tools and systems such as computers, laptops, electronic systems, smart phones etc. Information Technology field is growing rapidly and there are various technologies are increasing viz. Big Data Management, Cloud Computing, Green Computing, Data Science, Internet of Things (IoT), HCI, Usability Engineering etc. Usability Engineering is gaining as a field of study as well and dedicated in creation of the higher usability and user friendliness of the electronic tools and products. In this field few aspects and technologies are most important and emerging viz. Human cognition, behavioral Research Methods, Quantitative techniques etc for the development of usability systems. Designing, implementation, usability even in multimedia material viz. audio-video may also practice in the Usability Engineering and allied fields. Wireframes including few other prototypes are required in maintaining of the better and healthy man and machine interaction. As the field is growing therefore, it is applicable in other sectors and allied areas and among these agriculture is important one. In agricultural sector different applications of information technologies are increasing and among this Usability Engineering and HCI are important one. In pre production and also in post production; directly and indirectly this technology is emerging and growing. This paper talks about the basics of this technologies and also its current and future technologies with reference to academic potentialities of this branch in Agricultural Informatics programs.
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2. The emergence of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in
the last decade has opened new avenues in knowledge management that
could play important roles in meeting the prevailing challenges related to
sharing, exchanging and disseminating knowledge and technologies. ICT
allows capitalizing to a greater extent on the wealth of information and
knowledge available for Agriculture Knowledge, Science and Technology
(AKST). The ultimate objectives of AKST activities are to come up with
results that can advance research more in certain areas, and engender
technologies that AKST stakeholders can use to increase production,
conserve the environment, etc. The following paragraphs will discuss the
knowledge management challenges, explain how ICT could play a role in
addressing them, and highlight an example of an institution in the
Egyptian Agriculture Research Center whose main function is to conduct
applied research . in ICT in Agriculture
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4. The first challenge is the poor mechanisms and infrastructure for sharing and
exchanging agriculture knowledge generated from research at national and
regional levels. Many research activities are repeated due to the lack of such
mechanisms and infrastructure at the national level. Researchers can find
research papers published in international journals and conferences more
easily than finding research papers published nationally in local journals,
conferences, theses and technical reports. The second challenge is the
inefficient mechanisms and infrastructure for transferring technologies
produced as the result of research to growers either directly or through
intermediaries (extension subsystem). Knowledge and technologies fostering
agricultural production and environment conservation are examples.
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5. Although many extension documents are produced by national agriculture
research and extension systems to inform growers about the latest
recommendations concerning different agricultural practices, these documents
are not disseminated, updated or managed to respond to the needs of
extension workers, advisers and farmers. This is also true for technical reports,
books and research papers related to production. The third challenge is
keeping the indigenous knowledge as a heritage for new generations. It is
available through experienced growers and specialists in different commodities.
These inherited agricultural practices are rarely documented, but they embody
a wealth of knowledge that researchers need to examine thoroughly. The forth
challenge is easily accessing and availing economic and social knowledge to
different stakeholders at operational, management and decision-making levels,
so that those responsible will be able to make appropriate decisions regarding
the profit making of certain technologies and their effect on resource-poor
farmers.
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6. ICT Role in Agriculture
Knowledge Management
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7. Knowledge sharing, exchanging and dissemination are elements in a
broader theme which is knowledge management. The central purpose of
knowledge management is to transform information and intellectual
assets into enduring value (Metcalfe, 2005). The basic idea is to
strengthen, improve and propel the organization by using the wealth of
information and knowledge that the organization and its members
collectively possess (Milton, 2003). It has been pointed out that a large
part of knowledge is not explicit but tacit (Schreiber et al., 1999). This is
true for knowledge in agriculture where a lot of good practices are
transferred without being well documented in books, papers or extension
documents. To manage the knowledge properly, ICT is needed. In effect,
there are many information technologies that can be used for knowledge
management. The following paragraphs describe these technologies and
emphasize their roles in agriculture knowledge management.
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8. Content management system in its wider sense including data bases and
multimedia, is the core technology of information and knowledge
management. This technology can be used in different applications:
Building a national agriculture research information system (NARIS)
needs to include research outcomes, projects, institutions and
researchers in every country, and a regional research information system
that works as a portal for all the NARIS. An example NARIS has been
developed at the agriculture research center in Egypt (ARC, 2007).
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9. Content management system in its wider sense including data bases and
multimedia, is the core technology of information and knowledge
management. This technology can be used in different applications:
Developing an information system of indigenous agricultural practices
can enable researchers to examine this knowledge and decide on its
usefulness for sustainable development. Such a system will also keep
this knowledge for future generations before it disappears as a result of
advanced technologies.
Developing an information system recording matured technologies that
on a trial basis have proven successful and success stories that have
achieved economic growth will strengthen the interaction between
inventors and innovators. This will lead to an innovation-driven economic
growth paradigm.
Storing and retrieving images, videotapes and audiotapes related to
different agricultural activities.
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10. Geographic information systems (GIS) are needed to store databases
about natural resources with a graphical user interface that enables users
to access these data easily using geographical maps.
Decision support system techniques are needed in many applications:
Simulating and modeling methods can be used to build computer
systems that can model and simulate the effect of different agricultural
production policies on the economy and the environment to help top
management make decisions.
Using expert systems technology to improve crop management and track
its effect on conserving natural resources is elaborated in Rafea (1999).
This technology may also be appropriate for keeping indigenous
knowledge (Rafea, 1995, 1998, 2000). Expediting the expert systems
development by generating agriculture specific tools to overcome the
well known problem of knowledge acquisition is addresses in Abdul-Hadi
et. al. (2006). Enhancing the explanation capabilities of expert systems
developed for agriculture was also investigated by www.Said themegallery.et. al. com
(2009)
11. Geographic information systems (GIS) are needed to store databases
about natural resources with a graphical user interface that enables users
to access these data easily using geographical maps.
Modern ICT—Internet and Web technology—is needed to make these
systems available regionally and globally. Accessing the Internet will
bring a wealth of information to all agriculture stakeholders in rural and
urban areas and will help in overcoming the digital divide. As most
farmers in CWANA have no hands-on experience or access to digital
networks, leaders of national agricultural research and extension
systems should be encouraged to consider the ICT option. Training
farmers and extension workers, including women, in ICT will help them
access a lot of useful information if each country tries to develop
contents in the language people are using.
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12. Text Mining is being currently investigated in two applications in the
Central Laboratory for Agricultural Expert System (CLAES) in Egypt:
Developing an Intelligent focused search engine which aims at extracting
the appropriate textual segments responding to a user query. In order to
do that there is a need to develop ontology or extend an existing
ontology. In agriculture there is the AGROVOC developed by FAO but we
found many local concepts instances that need to be part of this
ontology. Some work was done by Hazman et. al. (2009) to learn ontology
from textual documents.
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13. Text Mining is being currently investigated in two applications in the
Central Laboratory for Agricultural Expert System (CLAES) in Egypt:
It is also needed to segment document into passages that are
semantically coherent. El-Shayeb et. al. (2006, 2007) worked on
segmenting html and textual documents. Annotating these segments
semantically using the ontology concepts is found necessarily (El-Beltagy
et. al., 2007)
Mining growers’ problems database which is part of the Virtual Extension
and Research Communication Network (VERCON) (CLAES 2002; FAO,
2003) to discover the best practices from the solutions provided by the
human experts and find out whether there are any discrepancies in their
recommendations.
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14. Using ICT in Agriculture in
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Egypt
15. In 1987, officials at the Egyptian Ministry of Agriculture and land
reclamation recognized expert systems as an appropriate technology for
speeding development in the agricultural sector. To realize this
technology, in 1989, the ministry initiated the Expert Systems for
Improved Crop Management Project (ESICM) in conjunction with the Food
and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the United
Nations Development Program (UNDP). The project began in mid-1989
and the Central Laboratory for Agricultural Expert Systems (CLAES)
joined the Agricultural Research Center (ARC) in 1991. Through the
development, implementation and evaluation of knowledge-based
decision support systems, CLAES is helping farmers throughout Egypt
optimize the use of resources and maximize food production. A dozen
expert systems have been developed for horticulture and field crop
management. In 2000, the Virtual Extension and Research
Communication Network (VERCON) project was funded by the FAO
Technical Cooperation Program (TCP) to develop a Web-based
information system to strengthen the link between research and
extension (CLAES, 2002; FAO, 2003).
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16. This network has been extended to include other stakeholders, and other
services through a project funded by Italian Debt Swap Program and
executed by FAO in collaboration with CLAES (CLAES, 2008). Several
expert systems have been made available on this network in addition to
other modules. In collaboration with ICARDA, CLAES has developed
three regional expert systems for wheat (CLAES, 2006c), faba (CLAES,
2006d) and barley (ICARDA, 2006). CLAES also developed the National
Agricultural Research Management Information System (NARIMS)
through a project funded by FAO/TCP. This system has five modules:
Institutes Information System, Researchers Information Systems,
Projects Information Systems, Publication Information System, and
National Research Program Information System (CLAES, 2007).
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