The document discusses PepsiCo's efforts to measure the carbon footprint and water usage of potato farming in the UK to identify opportunities to reduce impacts and close yield gaps. Key points include:
- The Cool Farm Tool and soil moisture probes were used to measure carbon emissions and water usage on 24 trial fields.
- Analysis found the crop could have yielded 14% more with more efficient irrigation, representing a 14% reduction in carbon footprint.
- A carbon management plan and engagement with growers are needed to reduce fertilizer use and improve irrigation practices to achieve sustainability targets.
- Precision farming tools like these can help identify priority areas to lower impacts and increase profits through higher yields.
David George of STC - Profiting from Sustainability Feedback Session April 2015Stevencann1
Presentation by David George of Stockbridge Technology Center at the Profiting from Sustainability Feedback Session in York organised by Future Food Solutions Ltd
Date: November 10, 2016
Time: 16:10-17:30
Host: Indonesian Agency for Agricultural Research and Development (IAARD)
Title of the Session: Lessons Learned for Climate Smart Livestock and Food Crop Intensification Systems
Speaker: Lini Wollenberg
Location: Indonesia pavilion at COP22
David George of STC - Profiting from Sustainability Feedback Session April 2015Stevencann1
Presentation by David George of Stockbridge Technology Center at the Profiting from Sustainability Feedback Session in York organised by Future Food Solutions Ltd
Date: November 10, 2016
Time: 16:10-17:30
Host: Indonesian Agency for Agricultural Research and Development (IAARD)
Title of the Session: Lessons Learned for Climate Smart Livestock and Food Crop Intensification Systems
Speaker: Lini Wollenberg
Location: Indonesia pavilion at COP22
Planning, implementing and evaluating Climate-Smart Agriculture in smallholde...FAO
http://www.fao.org/in-action/micca/
This presentation by Janie Rioux, FAO, outlines the experience of the Mitigation of Climate Change in Agriculture (MICCA) pilot projects in Kenya and the United Republic of Tanzania.
van Asten P. 2014. Implementing Climate-Smart Agriculture. Copenhagen, Denmark: CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security.
Contents:
1. CCAFS – what we do
2. What is CSA in the African context
3. Best bet CSA technologies
4. CSA services and approaches
5. How can we identify the priorities?
6. Collaborative possibilities
The multilevel CSA monitoring set of standard core uptake and outcome indicators + expanded indicators linked to a rapid and reliable ICT based data collection instrument to systematically
assess and monitor:
- CSA Adoption/ Access to CIS
- CSA effects on food security and livelihoods household level)
- CSA effects on farm performance
It is a technique of growing crops like barley without use of chemicals and artificial growth agents(soil).
It is characterized by short growth period with around 7-10 days and need of a small piece of land for production (Mooney J, 2005). And has extraordinary protein, vitamins, fibres and mineral contents with their healthy beneficial effects on animals.
Therefore, this technology is an important agricultural technique currently used in many countries (Tudor G. et al., 2005).
How to achieve climate-smart agriculture and the potential triple-win that can be achieved from these practices such as adaptation, mitigation and increasing livelihoods.
Planning, implementing and evaluating Climate-Smart Agriculture in smallholde...FAO
http://www.fao.org/in-action/micca/
This presentation by Janie Rioux, FAO, outlines the experience of the Mitigation of Climate Change in Agriculture (MICCA) pilot projects in Kenya and the United Republic of Tanzania.
van Asten P. 2014. Implementing Climate-Smart Agriculture. Copenhagen, Denmark: CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security.
Contents:
1. CCAFS – what we do
2. What is CSA in the African context
3. Best bet CSA technologies
4. CSA services and approaches
5. How can we identify the priorities?
6. Collaborative possibilities
The multilevel CSA monitoring set of standard core uptake and outcome indicators + expanded indicators linked to a rapid and reliable ICT based data collection instrument to systematically
assess and monitor:
- CSA Adoption/ Access to CIS
- CSA effects on food security and livelihoods household level)
- CSA effects on farm performance
It is a technique of growing crops like barley without use of chemicals and artificial growth agents(soil).
It is characterized by short growth period with around 7-10 days and need of a small piece of land for production (Mooney J, 2005). And has extraordinary protein, vitamins, fibres and mineral contents with their healthy beneficial effects on animals.
Therefore, this technology is an important agricultural technique currently used in many countries (Tudor G. et al., 2005).
How to achieve climate-smart agriculture and the potential triple-win that can be achieved from these practices such as adaptation, mitigation and increasing livelihoods.
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.
Climate Change and Future Food Security: The Impacts on root and Tuber CropsACDI/VOCA
Background: Climate Sensitivity of Agriculture
Importance or Root Crops to Jamaican Food Security
Estimating Yields (Manually)- Yield vs. Climate Dilemma
Methodology: Tools and Approaches
Results: Parameterization, Future Production under Climate Change
Conclusions: Climate Smart Implications & Main lessons learnt
Aeroponics is the process of growing plants in an air or mist environment without the use of soil or an aggregate medium (known as geoponics). The word "aeroponic" is derived from the Greek meanings of aer (air) and ponos (labour).
Aeroponic culture differs from both conventional hydroponics, aquaponics, and in-vitro (plant tissue culture) growing. Unlike hydroponics, which uses a liquid nutrient solution as a growing medium and essential minerals to sustain plant growth; or aquaponics which uses water and fish waste, aeroponics is conducted without a growing medium. It is sometimes considered a type of hydroponics, since water is used in aeroponics to transmit nutrients.
TERMINOLOGY
Aeroponic growing refers to plants grown in an air culture that can develop and grow in a normal and natural manner.
Aeroponic growth refers to growth achieved in an air culture.
Aeroponic system refers to hardware and system components assembled to sustain plants in an air culture.
Aeroponic greenhouse refers to a climate controlled glass or plastic structure with equipment to grow plants in air/mistenvironment.
Aeroponic conditions refers to air culture environmental parameters for sustaining plant growth for a plant species.
Aeroponic roots refers to a root system grown in an air culture.
An overview of the Dutch Greenhouse horticulture with emphasis on modern crop...Giannis Panagiotakis
Απο την ημερίδα στο Γεωπονικό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών που πραγματοποιήθηκε την Τρίτη 19-10-2021 με τίτλο
"Νέες τεχνολογίες στα θερμοκήπια με έμφαση στην υδροπονία και την θρέψη"
Η ημερίδα πραγματοποιείται με την
υποστήριξη του ΕΛΙΔΕΚ στο πλαίσιο
χρηματοδότησης του ερευνητικού
προγράμματος NUTRISENSE.
Presented by Abubakar Girei on May 9, 2019, as part of the first CCAFS & GRA CLIFF-GRADS Webinar Series. See the Introduction for more details: 2019 CLIFF-GRADS Webinar Series - Using modeling, life cycle assessment, and trade-off analysis to understand low emissions development options.
Farm-level options for accelerating the transition towards climate smart agri...CIAT
The difference between clever and smart people is mainly that clever people can get in and out of problems which smart people would not have gotten into in the first place. In the same light, faced with multifaceted challenges related to climate change, smartness would entail adapting our agricultural systems to avoid experiencing the negative impacts of climate change. In other words, climate smart agriculture (CSA) involves changing our agricultural systems to simultaneously address climate change challenges such as low food production, accelerated land degradation and increasing atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases. To achieve these objectives, agricultural systems should (1) sustainably increase productivity; (2) adapt and build resilience to climate change; and (3) reduce and/or avoid the emission of greenhouse gases. As will be discussed in this presentation, there is definitely no single agricultural technology or practice that can be universally applied to achieve these objectives. Nonetheless, site-specific assessments should be pursued to identify suitable agricultural practices, technologies, polices, financing and institutional arrangements that enhance smartness within a given situation. It will be noted that CSA is not necessarily based on new practices, technologies, polices and institutions. However, it involves holistically and simultaneously addressing challenges related to climate change by using a combination of familiar practices, technologies, polices and institutions in strategic but unfamiliar ways; that are not counterproductive. Moreover, the presentation aims to start a conversation on part of the work that has been done, is being done and can be done, through CIAT, to accelerate the transition towards smarter agriculture systems to ensure that, similar to smart people, we can avoid problems that complicate ours and the lives of generations to come.
Barilla Sustainable Farming: a Smart Agriculture Tool in the Climate Change EraData Driven Innovation
Luca Ruini - The Barilla Sustainable Farming (BSF) model is applied >1.000 Italian farmers providing the Barilla Handbook and Granoduro.net® - a Web Decision Supporting System (DSS) designed to assist day by day farmers taking also account local weather forecast. Results show that low input agronomic practices are environmentally friendly (- 36% GHG) and increase net income of farmers (up to 31%). Granoduro.net contributes in reducing carbon footprint (-10%) and costs for pesticides and fertilizers (- 10%). BSF DSS based is an adaptive agriculture tool in Climate Change weather condition.
Similar to Precision farming: measure then manage - Mark Pettigrew (Pepsico) (20)
2. 17% Potatogrowing 34% 10% 3% ProcessingCooking Disposal Transport 17% Sunflowergrowing 2% Seasoning 53% of Walkers carbon footprint is upstream, outside of our own operations 34%of footprint from agriculture 17% Packaging The Biggest Impact Lies Outside Our Direct Control
3. 50 in 5 Agro sustainability Targets 3 PepsiCo Confidential
4. Key Enablers to getting to our 50 in 5 commitments Connectivity with our growers & committed growers Potato Variety Programme I-Crop Irrigation Efficiency 4 PepsiCo Confidential
5. Reduction of Co2e & H2o (PIUK 50 in 5) Before you can manage you need to measure Carbon (Co2e) per tonne raw potato Water (H2o) applied and rainfall per tonne raw potato We have established the tools: Cool Farm Tool for Co2e Icrop platform (Soil moisture probes and weather stations)
6. 2010 UK I-Crop Field & Hardware Set Up Identification and marking out of 24 trials fields Weather station at each site 3 soil moisture probes in each field 1 probe fitted with a ‘rain gauge’ in each field (to work out the difference between rainfall and irrigation).
7. UK - 24 Fields spread across country, Irrigated & Un-irrigated, Early & Main Crops, Core 3 varieties UK Agro team supported by 3 additional temporary staff to manage the data collection Each field visited every 7-10days
8. Measurement – making it happen: Engage the Growers Adequate Resource - do not underestimate support needed Recognise the differing ability of Growers Collect robust / reliable data
9. 2 sets of yield digs were carried out on each crop, with support of the field team and growers 2 Digs per field area: No 1 dig @ 50-56 days after 50% emergence No 2 dig @ harvest, or as close as possible Yield dig data collected Plant and stem densities Number and weight of tubers, per 10 mm size fraction, i.e.. Yield fractions For 2nd Dig: plus quality (crisp) data 9 PepsiCo Confidential
10. In addition to the 24 trial fields, additional Modified Agronomy trials were conducted 17 trials to study effects of seed rates 14 trials with modified fertiliser usage 10 PepsiCo Confidential
11. Cool Farm Tool Cool Farm Tool Introduced 2009 through Sustainable Food Lab Created by Unilever and University of Aberdeen Wider group of circa 15 companies/multiple crops Simple LCA / Co2 measurement software Agreed to pilot in UK Robin Griffiths – Icrop participant, initial run. PE 2009 data = 111kg/t Vs CFT 2009 data = 110kg/t gave confidence 2010 schedule – 22 crops from Icrop programme Results ex field and throughout storage Nov 2010 – June 2011 11
26. Deeper dive by agro using PE Int. Gabi LCA software using 2 UK growers
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28. Cool Farm Tool for this crop, excluding storage132 Co2e kgs / tonne raw potato 132 kg / Ha off-the field is high Need to review fertiliser use Field Energy is very low – reviewing data with supplier
29. I-Crop fieldwork results in a growth curve for each crop, from which modelling work can been done ICROP – MVP Daw - Crop growth and Development Full Cover (FC) >90% Canopy No growing days lost on this crop due to canopy falling below 90%
30. Moisture probes showing that this field became very dry mid June. Confirmed by CUF water model. Water usage modelling - MVP Daw –based on i-CROP data Sum Profile Irrigation started too late Soil too dry from mid to end June 116 mm irrigation applied 1 mm drainage 86% water use compared to potential water used Crop received 297mm water in total, but ideally needed 345mm. Needed 164mm irrigation, or 42% more Target : Keep blue line (Act ETp) near green line (Pot ETp) CUF - water modelling – Mark Stalham 17 PepsiCo Confidential
35. Review of NPK use and accuracy of data collection for CFT
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37. PepsiCo have been actively involved with new potato varietiessince the mid-90’s.... 4 distinct phases and can be a 15 yr journey! Years Market volumes &Seed production Grower Engagement “Innovators” Cambridge University Variety Qualification “Advantaged inat least one, not disadvantaged in any vs. targetreplacement variety” Variety programs are a numbers game with no guaranteed outcome.... 80,000 potential candidates 30-40 candidates in small plot trials 2-5 front running varieties 1 qualifiedcandidate .... crossing a large with a small potato does not always result in a medium size potato 20 PepsiCo Confidential
38. Cool Farm Tool modeling – From 110 kg / tonneRobin Griffiths 2009 data On-farm modelling identifies priority areas for reduction YIELD is the Key Driver to Reduce Carbon and Water Footprints Pilot modelling –UK 2010 110 kg 110 kg 110 kg 110 kg x1 less blight spray = 1% reduction in carbon footprint 10% reduction of on-farm electricity use = 2% reduction in carbon footprint 10% reduction in diesel usage = 4% reduction in carbon footprint 10% improvement in yield = 10 % reduction in carbon footprint 109 kg 108 kg 106 kg 100 kg
39. UK Sustainability Farming Report has been launched and the 50 in 5 Commitments have been made public PIUK Sustainable Farming Report 2010 has been publicly launched Website created to inform and communicate our sustainability agricultural objectives For more information: www.pepsico.co.uk/farming