Smart farming technology innovations – Insights and reflections from the German Smart-AKIS hub

Knierim, Andrea; Kernecker, Maria L.; Erdle, Klaus; Kraus, Teresa; Borges, Friederike; Wurbs, Angelika

doi:10.1016/j.njas.2019.100314

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“…However, farmers should get familiar with farming innovation since the enhancement of the agricultural sector's competitiveness requires the generalized adoption of those innovations that foster agricultural productivity and sustainability [86]. One of the most promising fields of innovation in agriculture is the digitalization of farming, as it can provide farmers with continuous and detailed information on their production processes [87]. Benefits of precision farming that have been proved at the on-farm level include increasing crop yield and quality, reducing the environmental and climate impacts of farming, increasing farm resilience and soil health and decreasing crop production costs [87,88].…”

Section: Identification Of the Most Adequate Farming Practices For Each Crop/study Areamentioning

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Barriers and Opportunities for the Implementation of Sustainable Farming Practices in Mediterranean Tree Orchards

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This study identifies, through consultation with relevant stakeholders, low-input farming practices that can help to minimize the most pressing agronomic and environmental problems in some of the most relevant Mediterranean woody crops in Spain (almond, citrus, and olive) and enhance their sustainability. The results illustrate stakeholders’ perception regarding how each cropping system could be oriented towards a more sustainable production. Despite each case study’s particularities, there is consensus in the need for a shift towards the use of organic fertilizers, the maintenance of vegetation in the edges of plots and the use of integrated pest control strategies. On the contrary, stakeholders have selected different tillage and soil cover practices that are consistent with the characteristics and problems of each cropping system. This study also identifies relevant strengths and drawbacks for the implementation of low-input agricultural practices in each crop and study area. While stakeholders find the identified low-impact farming practices as easy and not costly, suggesting a significant potential for their successful implementation, the results also point out at the reduced knowledge of the practical benefits of some farming practices and the need for improved technical advice to foster the adoption of others.

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Section: Identification Of the Most Adequate Farming Practices For Each Crop/study Areamentioning

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Barriers and Opportunities for the Implementation of Sustainable Farming Practices in Mediterranean Tree Orchards

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“…In [72] the authors propose a knowledge-based management system for exchanging and creating knowledge in organic farming. Smart-AKIS [73] is a European network mainstreaming smart farming technologies among the European farmer community, aiming to bridge the gap between practitioners and research on the identification and delivery of new smart farming solutions to fit the farmers' needs.…”

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Towards Climate Smart Farming—A Reference Architecture for Integrated Farming Systems

Kakamoukas

Sarigiannidis

Maropoulos

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Telecom

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Climate change is emerging as a major threat to farming, food security and the livelihoods of millions of people across the world. Agriculture is strongly affected by climate change due to increasing temperatures, water shortage, heavy rainfall and variations in the frequency and intensity of excessive climatic events such as floods and droughts. Farmers need to adapt to climate change by developing advanced and sophisticated farming systems instead of simply farming at lower intensity and occupying more land. Integrated agricultural systems constitute a promising solution, as they can lower reliance on external inputs, enhance nutrient cycling and increase natural resource use efficiency. In this context, the concept of Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) emerged as a promising solution to secure the resources for the growing world population under climate change conditions. This work proposes a CSA architecture for fostering and supporting integrated agricultural systems, such as Mixed Farming Systems (MFS), by facilitating the design, the deployment and the management of crop–livestock-=forestry combinations towards sustainable, efficient and climate resilient agricultural systems. Propelled by cutting-edge technology solutions in data collection and processing, along with fully autonomous monitoring systems, e.g., smart sensors and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), the proposed architecture called MiFarm-CSA, aims to foster core interactions among animals, forests and crops, while mitigating the high complexity of these interactions, through a novel conceptual framework.

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“…Previously, all input into the farming process was manual labour intensive, and decisions were based on the experiential knowledge of the farmer (cf. Kritikos, 2017). In the contemporary context, input-intensive farming (cf.…”

Section: A Garden On the Internet -Virtually Farming Remotely Controlled Plotsmentioning

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“…In the contemporary context, input-intensive farming (cf. Knierim et al, 2019) means investment in interconnected digital technology. The enormous annual growth of ICT capabilities, based on data storage and computational capacities (Hilbert and López, 2006), clearly reveals a variety of potential for different life spheres.…”

Section: A Garden On the Internet -Virtually Farming Remotely Controlled Plotsmentioning

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“…Some downsides of technological advances in agriculture are moving in from the back door, but they are neither new nor unexpected. Kritikos (2017) points out that a number of socio-ethical risks and challenges result from a growing dependence on third-party influences (such as tech companies) and the complex task of data management and data security, with a growing tendency to treat farmers as information tools rather than subjects with their own capacity to make intelligent decisions. These challenges are a threat to the control over the on-farm production process and to farmers' autonomy.…”

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I have a garden on the Internet! Searching for the farmer in a remotely controlled farming enterprise

Preininger

Häfner

2021

Geogr. Helv.

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Abstract. The paper examines the conceptual implications of using Smart Farming Technologies and digitalisation in small-scale food production, exemplified by the Austrian start-up “myAcker”. The company runs a hybrid system of gamified, remote-controlled agriculture, where its customers assume the role of “online gardeners” and take care of their own vegetables. Conceptually, it combines two different logics, namely the technology focus of vertical farming and algorithm-based control over operational processes, and the participatory, values-based elements of Alternative Food Networks like connectivity, sustainability, and ownership developed by online gardeners. Consequently, the dividing lines between producers, customers, and technology, as well as between virtual and physical, become blurred. Thus, the agency of technology becomes a co-constituent of agricultural work, life, and identity, which is itself co-constituted by human actors in a network of social relations. The case study shows the new potential and pitfalls of small-scale smart farming and digitalisation, making it necessary to conceptually revisit human–environment relations in the Actor Network Theory by more explicitly including technology as a bridging element.

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Smart farming technology innovations – Insights and reflections from the German Smart-AKIS hub

Cited by 72 publications

References 43 publications

Barriers and Opportunities for the Implementation of Sustainable Farming Practices in Mediterranean Tree Orchards

Barriers and Opportunities for the Implementation of Sustainable Farming Practices in Mediterranean Tree Orchards

Towards Climate Smart Farming—A Reference Architecture for Integrated Farming Systems

I have a garden on the Internet! Searching for the farmer in a remotely controlled farming enterprise

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