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
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