Land grab/data grab: precision agriculture and its new horizons

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Developments in the area of ‘precision agriculture’ are creating new data points (about flows, soils, pests, climate) that agricultural technology providers ‘grab’, aggregate, compute and/or sell. Food producers now churn out food and, increa

Publicising Food: Big Data, Precision Agriculture, and Co-Experimental Techniques of Addition

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This article draws upon data taken from the following: 18 interviews of Iowa farmers who utilise big data when making farm management decisions; 14 interviews of those engaged within big data industry, those involved in the sale and promotion of larg

Promoting the Use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for Agricultural Transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Implications for Policy

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Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have the potential to reach many farmers with timely and accessible content. This article highlights the importance of ICTs in promoting agricultural transformation. It recommends the establishment of

IoT based Smart Soil Monitoring System for Agricultural Production

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Agriculture plays the major role in economics and survival of people in India. The purpose of this project is to provide embedded based system for soil monitoring and irrigation to reduce the manual monitoring of the field and get the information via

Big Data in Weather forecasting: Applications and Challenges

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Increasing evidence of climate change worldwide is becoming the reason to understand a lot more about the weather - everything from what's going to happen tomorrow to what's coming next year. To forecast weather we need to analyze a large set of data

Sustainable food systems and agriculture: the role of information and communication technologies

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Food security refers to the transformation processes needed to move towards sustainable food systems. Digitalization is one of the most important transformational processes in world agriculture and food production and sale systems. The paper consider