ICTs & Agriculture

The impact of ICT's can be seen in many sectors. The aim of this posts is to show how the information and communication technologies are allowing an old practice as agriculture to adapt to modern times and to increase their harvest.

The way to show the innovations in the sector will be using different stories:
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First story: farmers into a knowledge-based community in Africa.

For Africa, which is projected to be home to about 2 billion people by 2050, farm productivity must accelerate at a faster rate than the global average to avoid continued mass hunger.

Reference: How Digital Technology Is Changing Farming in Africa

Second story: IoT-enabled precision agriculture.

The benefits that farmers get from IoT application in agriculture are twofold. First, these systems help farmers decrease production costs and waste by optimizing the use of inputs. In addition, IoT can increase yields by improving their decision-making with more and accurate data.

Reference: Agriculture 2.0: how the Internet of Things can revolutionize the farming sector

Third story: food security across the value chain.

From unpredictable weather to plant-destroying locusts and viruses, farming has always been a high-risk industry.

Reference: Can Smart Investment in AgriTech Help Farmers Feed the World?

Fourth story: climate change & agriculture in Colombia.

A changing, complex and extremely variable climate is challenging farmers and food security in Latin America. Indeed, in some rice systems in Colombia for example, climate accounts for 30% to 40% of production variability.