Unlocking Big Data’s Potential to Strengthen Farmers’ Resilience: The Platform for Big Data in Agriculture

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cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Center for Tropical Agricultureen
cg.contributor.crpClimate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
cg.contributor.crpBig Data
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionAsia
cg.coverage.regionLatin America
cg.creator.identifierDaniel Jiménez: 0000-0003-4218-4306en
cg.creator.identifierJulian Ramirez-Villegas: 0000-0002-8044-583Xen
cg.identifier.urlhttps://www.iisd.org/library/big-data-resilience-storybooken
cg.subject.ciatCLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATIONen
dc.contributor.authorJiménez, Danielen
dc.contributor.authorRamírez Villegas, Julián Armandoen
dc.date.accessioned2018-04-03T15:52:26Zen
dc.date.available2018-04-03T15:52:26Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/92009
dc.titleUnlocking Big Data’s Potential to Strengthen Farmers’ Resilience: The Platform for Big Data in Agricultureen
dcterms.abstractThe availability of free and open access to large amounts of crop and weather data—combined with data mining approaches—enabled researchers to spot the main limiting factors of crop productivity at a site-specific scale, combine it with seasonal climate predictions, and get the information to farmers in time to inform their planting decisions. The rapid growth in processing power and global connectivity means that huge amounts of data can now be collected, shared and analyzed faster than ever before, and most importantly, can be turn into recommendations to inform the decisions of farmers and policy-makers. The increased access and use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) is redefining the way in which knowledge is managed and decisions are taken. Yet many rural households in Africa, Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean are still behind in the ICT revolution. Despite the ubiquity of technologies such as mobile phones, many farmers lack access to the kind of information they need to produce more food, more sustainably, and to respond and adapt to the impacts of climate. Most agro-climatic or food security information products are not tailored to farmers’ needs—they lack the resolution, frequency or the type of information necessary to be actionable at local levels. Harnessing the potential of Big Data, CGIAR developed the Platform for Big Data in Agriculture seeking to enable the development sector to embrace data and other digital technology approaches to solve agricultural development problems faster, better and at greater scale.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.bibliographicCitationJimenez, Daniel, Ramirez-Villegas, Julian. 2018. Unlocking Big Data’s Potential to Strengthen Farmers’ Resilience: The Platform for Big Data in Agriculture. In: Ospina, A.V. Big Data for resilience storybook: Experiences integrating Big Data into resilience programming. Winnipeg: International Institute for Sustainable Development: 97-108en
dcterms.issued2018-03en
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-NC-ND-3.0
dcterms.publisherInternational Institute for Sustainable Developmenten
dcterms.subjecttecnologías para la información y la comunicaciónen
dcterms.subjectinformation and communication technologiesen
dcterms.subjectbig dataen
dcterms.subjecthouseholdsen
dcterms.subjectclimate changeen
dcterms.subjectcambio climáticoen
dcterms.subjectcrop productionen
dcterms.subjectagricultureen
dcterms.subjectagriculturaen
dcterms.subjectagricultural developmenten
dcterms.subjectdesarrollo agrícolaen
dcterms.subjecttécnicas de predicciónen
dcterms.subjectforecastingen
dcterms.subjectresilienceen
dcterms.subjectlearningen
dcterms.subjectaccess to informationen
dcterms.subjectacceso a la informaciónen
dcterms.typeBook Chapter

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