To meet rising global food demand, agricultural productivity must be significantly increased in a sustainable way. Nearly 800 million people experience hunger daily and food production needs to double by 2050. Key issues impacting productivity are degradation of farmlands, resistant pests, limited water availability, soil composition variations, and inadequate storage facilities. Solutions proposed include more efficient irrigation, precision agriculture, developing drought-resistant crops, improving soil and water management, and investing in research.
http://www.fao.org/agroecology/en/
Presentation held by Professor Long Li, a visiting expert from China Agricultural University to FAO. He presented an overview of agroecology in China, including Policies, Practices and Science.
Sustainable Agriculture as Solution to Global Challengessekem
Presentation by Helmy Abouleish, CEO, SEKEM Group
· What are the pressing Global Challenges of the 21st century?
· How is Sustainable Agriculture addressing them all?
· Why can the SEKEM experience serve as inspiring example?
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http://www.fao.org/agroecology/en/
Presentation held by Professor Long Li, a visiting expert from China Agricultural University to FAO. He presented an overview of agroecology in China, including Policies, Practices and Science.
Sustainable Agriculture as Solution to Global Challengessekem
Presentation by Helmy Abouleish, CEO, SEKEM Group
· What are the pressing Global Challenges of the 21st century?
· How is Sustainable Agriculture addressing them all?
· Why can the SEKEM experience serve as inspiring example?
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This Project is all about agriculture techniques and ideas in which they can be sustained for future. Its main objective is to communicate about the methods and benefits of Sustainable Agriculture.
Innovation for Sustainable Food and AgricultureFAO
Presentación (inglés) de Clayton Campanhola (FAO) en el marco del Eleventh regional planners forum on agriculture and Symposium on innovation systems for sustainable agriculture and rural development, realizado en Barbados del 13 al 15 de septiembre de 2017.
Farming First is a coalition of global organisations looking to enhance sustainable development through agriculture. More can be found on the website: www.farmingfirst.org
Agroecology Practices in South China —biodiversity in rice production ExternalEvents
http://www.fao.org/about/meetings/agroecology-symposium-china/en/
Presentation of Luo Shiming, from South China Agricultural University, on agroecology practices in South China. Examples are discussed of biodiversity in rice production on field, agroecosystem and landscape scale. The presentation was prepared and delivered in occasion of the International Symposium on Agroecology in China, held in Kunming, China on 29-31 August 2016.
This Project is all about agriculture techniques and ideas in which they can be sustained for future. Its main objective is to communicate about the methods and benefits of Sustainable Agriculture.
Innovation for Sustainable Food and AgricultureFAO
Presentación (inglés) de Clayton Campanhola (FAO) en el marco del Eleventh regional planners forum on agriculture and Symposium on innovation systems for sustainable agriculture and rural development, realizado en Barbados del 13 al 15 de septiembre de 2017.
Farming First is a coalition of global organisations looking to enhance sustainable development through agriculture. More can be found on the website: www.farmingfirst.org
Agroecology Practices in South China —biodiversity in rice production ExternalEvents
http://www.fao.org/about/meetings/agroecology-symposium-china/en/
Presentation of Luo Shiming, from South China Agricultural University, on agroecology practices in South China. Examples are discussed of biodiversity in rice production on field, agroecosystem and landscape scale. The presentation was prepared and delivered in occasion of the International Symposium on Agroecology in China, held in Kunming, China on 29-31 August 2016.
Presentation by Jeremy Bird, DG, International Water Management Institute, at the CCAFS Workshop on Institutions and Policies to Scale out Climate Smart Agriculture held between 2-5 December 2013 in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
20.Improving agricultural productivity, A Lecture By Mr. Allah Dad Khan Vis...Mr.Allah Dad Khan
20.improving agricultural productivity, A Lecture By Mr. Allah Dad Khan Visiting Professor the University of Agriculture Peshawar Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province Pakistan
Around 70% of producers (farmers, tribals on forest land etc.) population in India comes under the category of small (19%) and marginal (51%) farmers. These categories of farmers have land holding of around 1 hectare and implementing existing policies to allot Govt. land to them (Booklet no. 434, Agricultural situation in India: ASIS-6). This population is mostly, poor, hungry, malnourished, illiterate, isolated, deep in debt, having lost their knowledge to follow their agro-ecology, having fallen into global investment in the market oriented development research, with extension focused on adapting and converting to high cost, high risk green revolution/Biotechnologies systems. This is the cause of their distress and the agrarian crisis in India. So, if we want our agriculture to again contribute significantly to the development and growth by becoming sustainable in the long term, we need to assist/facilitate by meeting the needs of the producer community so that they once again follow their producer oriented, low cost, low risk, agro ecology, primarily to meet their nutrition, food and cash requirements as this is the target population (mostly women and youth) that has capabilities and if given proper resources to develop their capacities
Advances in Vertical Farming by Dr. Brahma SinghDr. Brahma Singh
Traditional farming is threatened by resulting climate change, soil degradation and the loss of natural ecosystems. Another way of farming is needed not to replace it but supplement it to enforce sustainability. The answer is Vertical Farming which is consistently growing across geographies.
Breeding rice for sustainable agricultureDhanuja Kumar
Rice is the major cereal crop in Asia where 90% of the world’s rice is produced and consumed. Rice production and productivity need to keep pace with a growing global population likely to reach 9 billion by 2050 in order to have a hunger-free world and to ensure sustainable production in the face of depleting resources such as land, water and nutrients as well as changing climatic conditions.
Vertical farming is the practice of growing produce in vertically stacked layers.
Vertical farms come in different shapes and sizes, from simple two-level or wall-mounted
systems to large warehouses several stories tall.
Vertical farming typically uses a mix of natural light and artificial light. Artificial lighting is often LED-based and may be driven by a renewable power source such as solar power or wind turbines.
Agriculture in developing countries must undergo a significant transformation in order to meet the related challenges of achieving food security and responding to climate change. Projections based on population growth and food consumption patterns indicate that agricultural production will need to increase by at least 70 percent to meet demands by 2050. Most estimates also indicate that climate change is likely to reduce agricultural productivity, production stability and incomes in some areas that already have high levels of food insecurity. Developing climate-smart agriculture is thus crucial to achieving future food security and climate change goals. This seminar describe an approach to deal with the above issue viz. Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) and also examines some of the key technical, institutional, policy and financial responses required to achieve this transformation. Building on cases from the field, the seminar try to outlines a range of practices, approaches and tools aimed at increase the resilience and productivity of agricultural product systems, while also reducing and removing emissions. A part of the seminar elaborates institutional and policy options available to promote the transition to climate-smart agriculture at the smallholder level. Finally, the paper considers current gaps and makes innovative suggestion regarding the combined use of different sources, financing mechanism and delivery systems.
Pakistan's Agriculture Sector 1 (crops sector) Challenges and ResponseShahid Hussain Raja
Explains the historical evolution of Pakistan's agricultural sector and carries out its SWOT Analysis by describing its major strengths and weaknesses as well as the threats it faces and the opportunities available for its growth. Then lists the challenges Pakistan's agricultural sector is facing and comes up with a detailed plan of action to face those challenges.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
2. Overview
Nearly 800 million people literally go hungry every
day, with more than a third of earth’s population-
2 million men and women- malnourished one way
or another, according to the United Nations Food
and Agriculture Organization.
Food production need to be doubled by 2050 to
meet the UN Millennium Development goals on
hunger.
The World Bank estimates that cereal production
needs to be increased by 50 per cent between
2000 and 2030 to meet the demand.
3. Furthermore, it estimated that by 2025 one hectare of land
will need to feed five people whereas in 1960 one hectare
was required to feed only two people.
This needs to be achieved in a world where suitable
agricultural land is limited and climate change is predicted
to have an adverse impact on food production.
A rapidly increasing global demand for food means we
have no alternative but to significantly and sustainably
increase agricultural productivity to provide food and feed.
Agriculture contributes about 13.7 per cent to India’s gross
domestic product (GDP) and employs about 51 per cent of
the country’s population.
4.
5. Causes
Degradation and loss of productive farmlands:
Due to factors such as erosion, water-logging and nutrient
depletion.
Emerging and resistant strains of pests:
Up to 40 per cent of agricultural productivity would be lost without
effective use of crop protection chemicals
Quantity and quality of water available for agriculture.
Varying structural, chemical and microbiological composition of
soil and its interactions with plants and the environment.
Inadequate storage facility:
20-40 percent of the food grown in developing countries is wasted
due to inadequate storage technology, lack of rural transportation,
and underdeveloped markets.
Changes in ecology, sea level and other environmental factors.
6. To improve agricultural
productivity, a number of
things must be accomplished:
More efficient methods must be utilized to prevent water shortages,
as only 45% of irrigation water is actually absorbed by plants. Drip
irrigation and other efficient delivery systems, better water
distribution systems, improved control systems, and raising crops
suited to the climate and soil will aid in this endeavor.
Avoiding Excessive or continual irrigation which can lead to
salinization and waterlogging of the soil.
Precise agriculture at the field level should be practiced.
Optimizing farming practices by understanding the biochemistry of
soil ecosystems, for example, the mobility of chemicals within the
soil.
New high-potency, more targeted agrochemicals with new modes
of action should be brought into use. These must be safe to use,
overcome resistant pests and environmentally benign. And a
consistent effective dose delivery at the right time and in the right
quantity should be ensured.
Reducing chemical crop protection strategies through GM seeds.
7. Improving the understanding of methane oxidation by bacteria in soil to help
in developing methane-fixing technologies.
Maintaining an adequate, quality water supply is essential for agricultural
productivity.
Adopting Strategies for conserving water supplies which include using 'grey
water' of sufficient quality and more targeted water in irrigation systems, such
as through drip delivery (more 'crop per drop').
Development of rapid in situ biosensor systems that can monitor soil quality,
crop condition and water availability to pinpoint problems.
Analysis of climate change parameters in order to be able to predict
changing conditions for agronomy.
Thomas Adam Lumpkin, the director-general of International Maize and
Wheat Improvement Centre, Mexico said: “With changes in ecology, sea
level is going to rise coupled with erratic monsoon, which will lead to increase
in frequency and intensity of flood.” he also highlighted that in coming years
India has to face big problem in per capita availability of freshwater, 63 per
cent of India’s total agriculture is rain-fed and the groundwater is depleting in
Punjab and other regions.
8. Improving grain storage
structures:
40% of all fruits and vegetables produced in India perish
due to inadequate storage facilities.
The storage of goods, from the time of production to the
time of consumption not only ensures a continuous flow of
goods in the market but also provides employment and
income through price advantages.
We can adopt following storage structures for these
purposes:
• For small-scale storage :
PAU bin: This is a galvanized metal iron structure. It s capacity
ranges from 1.5 to 15 quintals. Designed by Punjab Agricultural
University.
PUSA bin: This is a storage structure is made of mud or bricks with
a polythene film embedded within the walls.
9. Hapur tekka: It is a cylindrical rubberized cloth structure supported
by bamboo poles on a metal tube base, and has a small hole in
the bottom through which grain can be removed.
For large scale storage:
CAP Storage (Cover and Plinth) It involves the construction of
brick pillars to a height of 14" from the ground, with grooves into
which wooden crates are fixed for the stacking of bags of food
grains. The structure can be fabricated in less than 3 weeks. It is
an economical way of storage on a large scale.
Silos In these structures, the grains in bulk are unloaded on the
conveyor belts and, through mechanical operations, are
carried to the storage structure. The storage capacity of each
of these silos is around 25,000 tonns.
10. The effort can be catalyzed
by:
Reformation of policies relating to water
management, allocation, and distribution. For
instance, governments will frequently subsidize water
use for agriculture, reducing incentives for water
conservation.
Increasing yield and controlling secondary
metabolism by better understanding plant science:
Understanding and exploiting biochemical plant signals
for developing new crop defence technologies.
Exploiting the outputs of this understanding using
biotechnology
Diversification to higher value crops, and developing
value chains to reduce marketing costs.
11. Reforming and strengthening of India’s agricultural
research and extension systems: These services
have declined over time due to chronic
underfunding of infrastructure and operations and
no replacement of aging researchers.
Piped conveyance, better on-farm management
of water, and use of more efficient delivery
mechanisms such as drip irrigation are among the
actions that could be taken.
The Government support can make a huge
change in this direction:
liberalizing constraints to marketing, transport, export
and processing.