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Digital agriculture, sometimes known as smart farming or e-agriculture, [1] is tools that digitally collect, store, analyze, and share electronic data and/or information in agriculture. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has described the digitalization process of agriculture as the digital agricultural revolution. [2]
Shade-grown coffee, a form of polyculture (an example of sustainable agriculture) in imitation of natural ecosystems. Trees provide resources for the coffee plants such as shade, nutrients, and soil structure; the farmers harvest coffee and timber.
One quarter of the world's greenhouse gas emissions result from food and agriculture (data from 2019). [1]The amount of greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture is significant: The agriculture, forestry and land use sectors contribute between 13% and 21% of global greenhouse gas emissions. [2]
Information and communication technology in agriculture (ICT in agriculture), also known as e-agriculture, is a subset of agricultural technology focused on improved information and communication processes. More specifically, e-agriculture involves the conceptualization, design, development, evaluation and application of innovative ways to use ...
The International Center for Tropical Agriculture (known as CIAT from its Spanish-language name Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical) is an international research and development organization dedicated to reducing poverty and hunger while protecting natural resources in developing countries. It is based in Palmira, Colombia, where it ...
Open Agriculture Initiative. The MIT Open Agriculture Initiative (OpenAg) was founded in 2015 by Caleb Harper as an initiative of the MIT Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [ 1] The project closed in April 2020 with the departure of Harper from MIT, although the closure was only officially confirmed by MIT a month later in ...
Softpedia features reviews written by its staff. Each review includes a 1- to 5-star rating, and often a public rating to which any of the site's visitors may contribute. [citation needed] Products are organised in categories which visitors can sort according to most recent updates, number of downloads, or rating.
Precision Agriculture NDVI 4 cm / pixel GSD. Precision agriculture (PA) is a farming management strategy based on observing, measuring and responding to temporal and spatial variability to improve agricultural production sustainability. [2] It is used in both crop and livestock production. [3]