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E-agriculture in action

Big data for agriculture

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Year of publication 2019

Place of publication Bangkok, Thailand ;

Pages 83

Author edited by Sylvester, G.

Publisher FAO and ITU ;

Product type Book (stand-alone)

Category General interest book

ISBN 978-92-5-131659-7

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) According to Forbes, we generate almost 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every day. The next generation of agriculture heavily depends on data. The ability to capture, sort, analyze and extract actionable intelligence from large data sets to reveal patterns (human, climate, market) and related trends is an important emerging field. The increase in the use of Internet of Things (IoT) devices would only add to this data deluge. The Economist rightly called data as the world’s most valuable resource , while some calling data the new oil . Agriculture would be one of the major users of IoTs. How can individuals, organizations and governments build capacities and processes in place to take advantage of this huge influx of data. This coupled with existing data streams (weather, satellite imagery, markets etc.,) would create an ecosystem which if managed efficiently would provide rich dividents especially in the agriculture sector where the right information at the right time will make a great influence in the livelihoods of people involved in agriculture and allied activities. This publication looks at how various initiatives are leveraging data, related to agriculture value chains, to influence decision making and efficient service delivery together with addressing key building blocks such as interoperability, data sharing, data security and the necessary policies and regulations that are needed to be implemented to sustain the data ecosystem.

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FAO and ITU. 2019. E-agriculture in Action: Big Data for Agriculture. Bangkok, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the International Telecommunication Union. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO.

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