Digital Diffusion for Inclusive Agroecosystems

Biradar, Chandrashekhar; Wéry, Jacques; Löw, Fabian; El-Shama, Khaled; Singh, Raj Kumar; Atassi, Layal; Omari, Jalal; Swelam, Atef; Sarkar, Ashutosh; Louhaichi, Mounir; Dhehibi, Boubaker; Bonaiuti, Enrico; Le, Long Bao; Oweis, Theib; Saharawat, Yashpal; Niane, Abdoul Aziz; Amri, Ahmad; Nadagoudar, Karan; Koo, Jawoo; Xiao, Xiangming; Ballal, Hrishikesh; Mehta, M. H.

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“…The production follows function and functional agricultural systems are vastly more productive and sustainable than dysfunctional systems such as single-cropping or few key crops over the long term. This requires dramatic transformational changes from mono-cropping systems to multi-cropping systems and re-design of the present agricultural landscape with functional metrics (Dwivedi et al, 2017;Biradar et al, 2019). This entails the systematic quantification of the agricultural production systems and agro-tagging at multiple scale(s) with a wide array of data sources to design sound agroecology-based innovative strategies that are both sustained by nature and sustainable in their nature (Tittonell, 2014).…”

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“…Agriculture production at present is solely relying on few crops predominantly under monocultures of industrial agriculture. However there exist still many traditional farming systems with a wide array of practices and production functions support the resilience of agroecosystems (Altieri et al, 2015;Mehta, 2017;Biradar et al, 2019). The diversified agroecosystems are found to be more productive, help in bridging the yield gaps, more sustainable and resilient to extreme climate events (Astier, et al, 2012Gaba et al, 2015Löw et al, 2018).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…One of the major constraints of rice fallows is related to soil and water management. With help of geospatial tools and using water balance studies, site specific crop planning can be suggested based on available soil moisture and crop water requirement of suitable pulse crops (Sahoo et al, 2014 andBandyopadhyay et al, 2015;Biradar et al, 2019) Such principles need to be embedded in various farm practices and agricultural development strategies, where each one has different effects on productivity, stability and resiliency within the farm system. The digital technology would play a key role in the effective diffusion of sustainable agroecosystems and targeting wider and faster adoption to changing climate and demography.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Geo Big Data and Digital Augmentation for Accelerating Agroecological Intensification in Drylands

Biradar¹,

Ghosh²,

Löw³

et al. 2019

Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.

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Integrated system approach becomes key pillar for sustainable intensification of agri-food systems while ensuring ecological functions under changing climate, diet and demography. The digitization of the agroecosystems become most essential entry point for any sustainable developmental entities whether it is plant genetics for breeding better varieties, crop diversification and intensification, efficient use of farm inputs, agronomic practices, stable economic return, to ecosystem services management. The functional production systems become more important than single commodity production systems. Recent advances in Earth Observation System (EOS), Open-Access (AO), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Information, and Communication Technologies (ICTs), Cloud Computing Platforms (CCP) along with smartphone-enabled Citizen Science (CS) increasingly make Big-Data analytics much smarter, interoperable and much useful than ever before, and create valuable baseline information for decision making. This has opened tremendous opportunities to address the knowledge gaps at multiple levels (e.g., data, yield, ecology, economy, resilience) for demand-driven ecological interventions across the scale (e.g., space, time and package). Ongoing efforts in big-data driven digital augmentation aim at quantifying functional production dynamics and drivers to target sitespecific sustainable developmental interventions and scaling the ecological intensification such as intensification of pulses in cerealbased systems (rice fallows), adoption of conservation agriculture, bridging the yield gaps, geo-localization of the research and impact reporting. Here we present some of the ongoing efforts in EOS Big Data for digital augmentation for accelerating agroecological intensification in different agroecologies and regions in the drylands.

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Geo Big Data and Digital Augmentation for Accelerating Agroecological Intensification in Drylands

Biradar¹,

Ghosh²,

Löw³

et al. 2019

Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.

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“…[15]. The use of digital technologies in the agriculture value chain can improve the efficiency of the agricultural food production system to some extent, as reported in [22,23]. Unfortunately, the majority of marginal areas of the MENA region are deprived of these technical interventions, mainly due to systemic inefficiencies, inequalities, and the lack of transparency in resource flow, which demands fair-rule policies and governance in future public-private partnerships [24].…”

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A Holistic Framework towards Developing a Climate-Smart Agri-Food System in the Middle East and North Africa: A Regional Dialogue and Synthesis

Govind¹,

Wéry²,

Dessalegn³

et al. 2021

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Agriculture and agri-food systems of the highly vulnerable Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region needs a radical transformation under a changing climate. Based on a two-year effort, initially we developed a mega hypothesis on how to achieve climate-smart agri-food transformation in the region. In the study, we hypothesized that “Climate-Smart Lifts” implemented in the enabling environments can rapidly facilitate agri-food transformation in the region. In order to gather the stakeholders’ perception about this, we organized a collective conversation among ~400 stakeholders that represent various scales and sectors within the agriculture sector in MENA. These “listening cum learning consultations” were conducted through a survey followed by a series of webinars. The webinar discussions were strategically guided based on our hypothesis, the responses from the surveys and the regional needs. These discussions provided a forum to bring-out the stakeholders’ perspective on what new knowledge, partnerships, instruments and projects were needed in the MENA. The deliberation focused on the opportunities of public–private partnerships focusing in all the four major agroecosystems in MENA (irrigated, rainfed, rangelands, and deserts). In result, we developed an effective framework for strategic resource mobilization in the region, keeping in view the strong regional needs for climate actions and the requisite long-term commitments for the SDGs implementation.

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Digital Diffusion for Inclusive Agroecosystems

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Geo Big Data and Digital Augmentation for Accelerating Agroecological Intensification in Drylands

Geo Big Data and Digital Augmentation for Accelerating Agroecological Intensification in Drylands

A Holistic Framework towards Developing a Climate-Smart Agri-Food System in the Middle East and North Africa: A Regional Dialogue and Synthesis

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