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_US
cg.contributor.crpClimate Change, Agriculture and Food Securityen_US
cg.contributor.crpBig Dataen_US
cg.coverage.regionAfricaen_US
cg.coverage.regionAsiaen_US
cg.coverage.regionLatin Americaen_US
cg.creator.identifierDaniel Jiménez: 0000-0003-4218-4306en_US
cg.creator.identifierJulian Ramirez-Villegas: 0000-0002-8044-583Xen_US
cg.identifier.urlhttps://www.iisd.org/library/big-data-resilience-storybooken_US
cg.subject.ciatCLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATIONen_US
dc.contributor.authorJiménez, Danielen_US
dc.contributor.authorRamírez Villegas, Julián Armandoen_US
dc.date.accessioned2018-04-03T15:52:26Zen_US
dc.date.available2018-04-03T15:52:26Zen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/92009en_US
dc.titleUnlocking Big Data’s Potential to Strengthen Farmers’ Resilience: The Platform for Big Data in Agricultureen_US
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_US
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Accessen_US
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_US
dcterms.issued2018-03en_US
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-NC-ND-3.0en_US
dcterms.publisherInternational Institute for Sustainable Developmenten_US
dcterms.subjecttecnologías para la información y la comunicaciónen_US
dcterms.subjectinformation and communication technologiesen_US
dcterms.subjectbig dataen_US
dcterms.subjecthouseholdsen_US
dcterms.subjectclimate changeen_US
dcterms.subjectcambio climáticoen_US
dcterms.subjectcrop productionen_US
dcterms.subjectagricultureen_US
dcterms.subjectagriculturaen_US
dcterms.subjectagricultural developmenten_US
dcterms.subjectdesarrollo agrícolaen_US
dcterms.subjecttécnicas de predicciónen_US
dcterms.subjectforecastingen_US
dcterms.subjectresilienceen_US
dcterms.subjectlearningen_US
dcterms.subjectaccess to informationen_US
dcterms.subjectacceso a la informaciónen_US
dcterms.typeBook Chapteren_US

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