Synthesis from the forum on ICT and Agriculture in the Context of Green Growth
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Presented by Gerard SylvesterKnowledge & Information Management Officer, FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific at #UNOSDKM
Reflections on state of practices and challenges from the e-Agriculture Community
Climate Smart Agriculturepowered by ICT
www.e-agriculture.org
Presentation under CC License. FM-MR
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World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)
WSIS Plan of Action – November 2005 – Tunis
Action Line (C.7/21): ICT Applications: e-Agriculture
FAO was assigned lead responsibility for facilitating follow up on e-Agriculture (Feb. 2006)
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e-Agriculture
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These founding partners continue to support the Community by providing subject matter experts, meeting venues, content and other resources.
Founding Partners
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BACKGROUND
E-discussion- How ICT can support climate-smart agriculture
Experts + hundreds participants identified success and challenges
A global community - >10 000 individuals
collaborating to improve the use of ICT in the agricultural sector.
- Facilitated by FAO and supported by other dev. org.
ICT in Agriculture Sourcebook- Published by World Bank (2011)
To initiate further and better investment in this sector cred
it: W
orld
Ban
k
credit: FAO
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Synthesis from the forum on ICT and Agriculture in the Context of Green
Growth
www.e-agriculture.org
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IMPROVE planning and consensus building for land and water use
Support adaptation and resilience
Informs land reform/agrarian reform
credit: FAO (F.Martin)
Improves information flows
“ICT has created unprecedented linkages between public and private institutions, governments, citizens and corporations.”
Ndubuisi Ekekwe, African Institution of Technologycredit: FAO
Credit: TELEFONICA
credit: ICRISAT
Engages communities (social inclusion)
Credit: IAEA
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SUPPORTenvironmentally sustainable farming
Reduces negative environmental impact of inputs
Optimizes water management
Reduces production related costs
“An initiative by the Government of Turkey that provided higher granular-ity of weather and pest information resulted in a dramatic reduction in farming costs and in some cases a 50% reduction in pesticide use.” ICT in Agriculture Sourcebook
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ENHANCEenvironmental and agricultural innovations
Enables real-time communications to/from farmers
Realizes “big-data” in the agricultural sector
Facilitates hyper-local information flows
Photo credit: RMLPhoto credit: FAO
Photo credit: FAO/IAEA
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REDUCESrisk and adverse effects
Identifies counterfeit crop production products
Mitigates through micro-insurance
Encourages more investment in the sector
Uganda pilot authenticates input products using scratch-cards and text messages (SMS)
Photo credit: FAO
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CHALLENGES
Analysis, specially complex climate data
Availability of hyper-local data
Local capacity to access and act upon information
Incentives for producers to participatein information flows
Cost – related to both service/analysis and telecom policies
Photo credit: FAO
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For more on
and Climate Smart Agriculture:
THANK YOU
www.e-agriculture.org
The ICT in Agriculture Sourcebook: www.ictinagriculture.org