Precision Agriculture for Resource Use Efficiency in Smallholder Farming Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review

Onyango, Cecilia Moraa; Nyaga, Justine M.; Wetterlind, Johanna; Piikki, Kristin

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“…PA technology is a management tool for monitoring the efficiency of resource inputs while reducing chemical use to avoid environmental damage and produce high quality products to satisfy growing demand on food [12,13]. Precision farming is a holistic, innovative systems approach that assists farmers in managing crop and soil variability to decrease costs, improve yield quality and quantity, and enhance farm income [14].…”

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Analyzing Precision Agriculture Adoption across the Globe: A Systematic Review of Scholarship from 1999–2020

2021

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Precision agriculture (PA) is a holistic, sustainable, innovative systems approach that assists farmers in production management. Adopting PA could improve sustainable food security and community economic sustainability. Developing an understanding of PA adoption attributes is needed in order to assist extension practitioners to promote adoption and better understand the innovation adoption phenomena. A systematic review of literature was conducted to investigate attributes that foster PA adoption. Thirty-three publications were examined, and four themes were found among the reviewed publications. The results were interpreted using Rogers’ diffusion of innovations framework to address the research objectives. Relative advantage and compatibility were two dominant attributes needed to strengthen the adoption of PA, and the complexity attribute was rarely communicated to promote the adoption of PA. The systematic review indicated the rate of farmer’s PA adoption does not occur at the highest potential levels due to inadequate communication of PA attributes from change agents to farmers. Extension field staff need professional development in communicating the five PA adoption attributes to farmers in order to improve PA adoption and enhance local sustainable food security. Thus, authors recommend future complexity studies from agricultural extension specialists’ perspectives to comprehend demonstratable approaches to motivate farmers’ adoption of PA.

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Analyzing Precision Agriculture Adoption across the Globe: A Systematic Review of Scholarship from 1999–2020

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“…PA technology is a management tool for monitoring the efficiency of resource inputs while reducing chemical use to avoid environmental damage and produce high quality products to satisfy growing demand on food [9][10]. Precision farming is a holistic, innovative systems approach that assists farmers in managing crop and soil variability to decrease costs, improve yield quality and quantity, and enhance farm income [11].…”

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“…Diverse factors influence the adoption of PA. Barriers to PA adoption included technical issues with equipment, access to service software, the lack of compatibility of equipment to current farm operations [22], concerns regarding service providers misuse of agricultural data, challenges of managing amount of PA data [23], user-friendly design [10] and the cost [24][25].…”

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Analyzing Precision Agriculture Adoption Across the Globe: A Systematic Review of Scholarship from 1999 – 2020

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2021

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Precision agriculture (PA) is a holistic, sustainable, innovative systems approach that assists farmers in production management. Adopting PA could improve sustainable food security and community economic sustainability. Developing an understanding of PA adoption attributes is needed to assist extension practitioners to promote adoption and better understand the innovation adoption phenomena. A systematic review of literature was conducted to investigate PA adoption. Thirty-three publications were examined, and four themes were found among the reviewed publications. The results were interpreted using Rogers’ diffusion of innovations framework to address the research objectives. Of the reviewed literature, we found relative advantage and compatibility were two dominant attributes to strengthen the adoption of PA, and the complexity attribute was rarely used to promote the adoption of PA. This study shows that change agents do not fully use five attributes of innovation when they promote PA technology to stakeholders to adopt. Thus, we recommend studies from the agricultural extension specialists’ perspectives in the future may determine contributions to motivate farmers’ adoption of PA, in particular related to complexity.

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“…Precision agriculture; smart farming Utilization of advanced, software-managed and sensor-monitored, technologies (e.g. robotics, satellite and drone imagery, IoT, data analytics) for tracking, monitoring, automating, and analyzing operations in agricultural systems with the aim to optimize accuracy, effectiveness, and efficiency of crop production and resource use while considering temporal and spatial variability (Onyango, Nyaga, Wetterlind, Söderström, & Piikki, 2021).…”

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“…However, these can count on rising interest from funders and public and private actors mainly because of options to gain access to previously inaccessible data about farm(ers) (Iazzolino, 2021b), those large quantities of data being utilized for e.g. precision agriculture, data analytics, and development of farmer profiles 9 Onyango et al, 2021).…”

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More than what meets the eye : factors and processes that shape the design and use of digital agricultural advisory and decision support in Africa

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Su um mm ma ar ry y ( (E En ng gl li is sh h) )Over the past few decades, digitalization has undeniably been transformative and disruptive and digital innovations became an integral part of people's day-to-day life. The years 2020 and 2021, in which the world came to a temporary standstill due to the SARS-CoV-2 or COVID19 pandemic, undoubtedly showed the power of digital technologies: Globally, and almost overnight did work, education, and private lives shift from being place-based and face-to-face to being cloud-based and remote. In a predigitalized era, this would have been unthinkable.The global availability of (low-cost) digital technologies and services, and subsequently emerging processes of digitization and digitalization, have made digital innovation a key goal and investment theme in many sectors, including in agriculture, both in the Global North and Global South. For the Global South context specifically, there is keen hope that longstanding, complex problems can be addressed with the aid of digital technologies. In the context of African agriculture, digital technologies and services are deployed with the goal to improve food and nutrition security, healthier diets, rural income and livelihoods, mitigating climate change, building resilience, and access to information for everyone.Although digital agriculture can currently be considered a hype and the number of (scientific) publications appearing on a daily basis is skyrocketing, we still know very little about the processes through which digital agriculture services are designed and the complex and uncertain circumstances wherein design decisions are made. We also have limited understanding about the role that design plays in determining the societal consequences of digitalization and who is, ultimately, affected and in what way (positive or negative).This dissertation aims to contribute to these research gaps by developing understanding about factors and processes that determine the design and use of digital innovation that are created to address complex agricultural problems. Through this research the question 'What factors and processes shape the design and use of digital advisory and decision support services that are developed for addressing complex agricultural problems in Africa?' was answered. The specific focus was thereby on digital agriculture advisory and decision support. The geographic focus is on Africa, with two case studies from Rwanda (the case of Banana Xanthomonas Wilt as a complex Summary XI agricultural problem for which a solution is sought, and the case of ICT4BXW as a case of a digital agriculture project that developed an agricultural advisory and decision support service).The dissertation includes eight chapters of which six are based on empirical research:Chapter 1 is a general introduction that presents the topic of research, the scientific state-of-the-art, and the research design.Chapter 2 is a problem diagnostics chapter that uses a systems analysis approach to assess the complex problem of Banana Xanthomonas Wilt (BXW...

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Precision Agriculture for Resource Use Efficiency in Smallholder Farming Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review

Cited by 44 publications

References 76 publications

Analyzing Precision Agriculture Adoption across the Globe: A Systematic Review of Scholarship from 1999–2020

Analyzing Precision Agriculture Adoption across the Globe: A Systematic Review of Scholarship from 1999–2020

Analyzing Precision Agriculture Adoption Across the Globe: A Systematic Review of Scholarship from 1999 – 2020

More than what meets the eye : factors and processes that shape the design and use of digital agricultural advisory and decision support in Africa

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