In 2011, the Platform for African European Partnership on Agricultural Research for Development (PAEPARD) launched the Users-led Process (ULP) to better articulate users’ needs in a multi-stakeholder research and innovation (R&I) partnership. The ULP comprises six critical steps: (1) Identification of a federating theme; (2) Desk review; (3) Introduction workshop; (4) Multi-stakeholder research question inception workshop; (5) Concept note development; (6) Full proposal development.
Smartphones have become a useful tool in agriculture because their mobility matches the nature of farming, the cost of the device is highly accessible, and their computing power allows a variety of practical applications to be created. Moreover, smartphones are nowadays equipped with various types of physical sensors which make them a promising tool to assist diverse farming tasks. This paper systematically reviews smartphone applications mentioned in research literature that utilize smartphone built-in sensors to provide agricultural solutions.
Decision support systems (DSS) have long been used in research, service provision and extension. Despite the diversity of technological applications in which past agricultural DSS canvass, there has been relatively little information on either the functional aspects of DSS designed for economic decisions in irrigated cropping, or the human and social factors influencing the adoption of knowledge from such DSS.
This article provides an overview of some of the recent research in agriculture involving remote sensing and GIS. Attention focuses on application of remote sensing and GIS specially in agriculture including geography, land surveying, most Earth Science disciplines, parent child relationship, unique identification, attributes, technical parameters, 2D/3D view and any other requirement customized. These advances have been made over recent years and foundations for future research established and can be efficiently used in Agriculture for better results.
The paper presents an efficient approach for the modelling of wire robots kinematic and dynamics considering the effects of structural elasticity. Using the simulation and animation system several potential applications in agriculture have been simulated and analysed. The paper discusses possible robot configurations, system dynamic constraints and limits, as well as reachable performance for typical large-span wire robot applications in agriculture.
Apple production in South Tyrol is a true illustration of a vibrant agricultural innovation system.
Esta investigación aborda el rol de la comunicación en el recorrido institucional que deriva en la actual organización de los proyectos regionales en torno a un enfoque territorial, en el Centro Regional Misiones, Argentina, del Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). En ese recorrido se repasan las miradas disciplinares existentes, sus formas de organización en torno a la investigación y la extensión, sus consecuencias en la elaboración de los proyectos y para el papel asignado a la comunicación.
El presente trabajo muestra la importancia del uso de las TI’s (Tecnologías de la Información) como herramientas de consulta para los productores en mediana y pequeña escala de agricultura protegida; donde se establece la necesidad de acceder a portales en internet o aplicaciones móviles, que provean de información acerca de precios de mercados, alertas de clima y plagas, centros de investigación, financiamientos, apoyos gubernamentales, proveedores de insumos y de servicios, requisitos de clientes, casos de éxito, etc., y de esta manera puedan tomar decisiones que les permita proyectar sus
The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) financed the second Cordillera Highland Agricultural Resource Management Project (CHARMP2), in areas where poverty is most severe among indigenous peoples in the highlands of the Cordillera Region in northern Philippines. The aim is to reduce poverty and improve the livelihoods of indigenous peoples living in farming communities in the mountainous project area. The indigenous peoples consist of many tribes whose main economic activity is agriculture.
The creation of Competitive Research Grants (CRGs) is globally recognized as an institutional innovation for improving the effectiveness of agricultural research. Unlike block grants for research, CRGs are expected to bring in many top-quality proposals from a wide range of actors, selecting the best out of them and thus getting more value for money.