Toward Quantified Small-Scale Farms in Africa

Fleming, Kala; Waweru, Peninah; Wambua, Muuo; Ondula, Elizabeth; Samuel, Lianna

doi:10.1109/mic.2016.58

Cited by 17 publications

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“…These also rely upon fragile water resources; moreover, Eurostat noted that that total irrigable are in the EU-28 was ca. 15.5 Mha (8.9% of the total) whereas only 10.2 Mha (5.9% of the total) was irrigated thus highlighting the opportunities for implementing low-cost technological solutions (Fleming et al, 2016). The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) potentially enables technologies focused on implementation of monitoring and resource management solutions across many Industry 4.0 applications that embraces cloud computing, big data, AI or distributed ledger technologies (such as blockchain) that will improve traceability and productivity of commercial processes (Yu et al, 2017).…”

Section: Edge-internet Of Things (Iot) Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Digital transformation of peatland eco-innovations (‘Paludiculture’): Enabling a paradigm shift towards the real-time sustainable production of ‘green-friendly’ products and services

Rowan

Murray

Qiao

et al. 2022

Science of The Total Environment

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Section: Edge-internet Of Things (Iot) Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Digital transformation of peatland eco-innovations (‘Paludiculture’): Enabling a paradigm shift towards the real-time sustainable production of ‘green-friendly’ products and services

Rowan

Murray

Qiao

et al. 2022

Science of The Total Environment

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“…The most recent scope of work for the CAP includes water resources and how to manage them effectively. With the technological advances, farms in both developed and developing countries can benefit from the implementation of low-cost technologies [16].…”

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confidence: 99%

Increasing Profitability and Monitoring Environmental Performance: A Case Study in the Agri-Food Industry through an Edge-IoT Platform

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Globalization has led to a new paradigm where the traditional industries, such as agriculture, employ vanguard technologies to broaden its possibilities into what is known as smart farming and the agri-food industry 4.0. This industry needs to adapt to the current market through an efficient use of resources while being environmentally friendly. The most commonly used approaches for analyzing efficiency and sustainability on farms are production efficiency based analyses, such as Data Envelopment Analysis and Stochastic Frontier Analysis, since they allow to see how efficient the outputs are generated regardless of the units of measurement of the inputs. This work presents a real scenario for making farms more profitable and sustainable through the analysis of the Data Envelopment Analysis and the application of the Internet of Things and Edge Computing. What makes this model interesting is that it allows monitoring the ambient conditions with real-time data from the different sensors that have been installed on the farm, minimizing costs and gaining robustness in the transmission of the data to the cloud with Edge Computing, and then to have a complete overview in terms of monthly resource efficiency through the Data Envelopment Analysis. The results show that including the costs of edge and non-edge data transfer have an impact on the efficiency. This small-scale study set the basis for a future test with many farms simultaneously.

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“…The use of EFRs could also improve the financial sector engagement by enabling banks to have quick visibility to farm records and increasing their interactions with financial service seeking behavior in real time. However, despite its benefits, the adoption of EFRs has been affected by various challenges [1], [2]. Moreover, the informal interactions of the smallscale farming ecosystem (for "doing-agri-business") in devel-oping countries contributes to three challenges: fragmented processes, provenance and trust, and information visibility.…”

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confidence: 99%

AGWS: Blockchain-enabled Small-scale Farm Digitization

Bore¹,

Kinai²,

Waweru³

et al. 2020

2020 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC)

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Farm records hold the static, temporal, and longitudinal details of the farms. For small-scale farming, the ability to accurately capture these records plays a critical role in formalizing and digitizing the agriculture industry. Reliable exchange of these record through a trusted platform could unlock critical and valuable insights to different stakeholders across the value chain in agriculture eco-system. Lately, there has been increasing attention on digitization of small scale farming with the objective of providing farm-level transparency, accountability, visibility, access to farm loans, etc. using these farm records. However, most solutions proposed so far have the shortcoming of providing detailed, reliable and trusted small-scale farm digitization information in real time. To address these challenges, we present a system, called Agribusiness Digital Wallet (ADW), which leverages blockchain to formalize the interactions and enable seamless data flow in small-scale farming ecosystem. Utilizing instrumentation of farm tractors, we demonstrate the ability to utilize farm activities to create trusted electronic field records (EFR) with automated valuable insights. Using ADW, we processed several thousands of small-scale farm-level activity events for which we also performed automated farm boundary detection of a number of farms in different geographies.

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Toward Quantified Small-Scale Farms in Africa

Cited by 17 publications

References 5 publications

Digital transformation of peatland eco-innovations (‘Paludiculture’): Enabling a paradigm shift towards the real-time sustainable production of ‘green-friendly’ products and services

Digital transformation of peatland eco-innovations (‘Paludiculture’): Enabling a paradigm shift towards the real-time sustainable production of ‘green-friendly’ products and services

Increasing Profitability and Monitoring Environmental Performance: A Case Study in the Agri-Food Industry through an Edge-IoT Platform

AGWS: Blockchain-enabled Small-scale Farm Digitization

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