Every few years, the agricultural technology sector gets a new silver bullet. In 2013, the narrative was big data transforming farm management — Monsanto's $1.1 billion acquisition of The Climate ...
Fifth-generation apple farmer Jamie Sonneville understands the stresses that come with predicting revenue in the agriculture industry. Variables such as crop yields, weather, and costs associated with ...
Sustainable food and agriculture (Fd+Ag) systems are often framed around three pillars: ecological soundness, economic viability, and social fairness. Yet in today’s interconnected, increasingly ...
For centuries, agriculture has relied on three essential assets: land, water and seed. In the 2020s, however, a fourth asset has become equally critical: data. I have spent much of the past year ...
Farming is one of the oldest industries in the world, with evidence of agriculture being found as far back as 21,000 BC. However, with an increasing population and environmental disruption through ...
As the largest funder of agricultural development assistance, the World Bank is a global leader in supporting the transition to more efficient, climate-smart food systems. We have global reach through ...
Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. Agriculture is facing daunting challenges. Not only are farmers expected to produce ...
Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. As a result, many farmers worldwide are seeing crop yields become smaller and less ...
In this conversation, Professor Rajiv Ahuja and Dr. Pushpendra Singh discuss how precision agriculture is being engineered for Indian conditions, why data reliability remains a structural bottleneck, ...