Big Data Solutions : Innovative Approaches to Overcoming Agricultural Challenges in Developing Nations by Harnessing the Power of Analytics
The food system is fundamental for human life. It provides energy, nutrition, an income source for billions of people, and is the largest user of the world’s natural resources. In response, improvements in agriculture operations have to be made at...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/806861491561413985/Big-data-solutions-innovative-approaches-to-overcoming-agricultural-challenges-in-developing-nations-by-harnessing-the-power-of-analytics http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26436 |
| Summary: | The food system is fundamental for human
life. It provides energy, nutrition, an income source for
billions of people, and is the largest user of the world’s
natural resources. In response, improvements in agriculture
operations have to be made at both the policy and individual
farmer level in order to realize gains in efficiency and
productivity. The recent worldwide diffusion of new
technologies, combined with big data and analytics, is
providing the opportunity for developing countries to leap
frog some of the intermediate development phases providing
farmer’s in the developing world with greater access to
timely, cost effective, and personally relevant information
on best practices, markets, prices, inputs, weather, and
news of impending disaster. In particular, the penetration
of mobile phones, and the innovative applications of
geospatial and sensing technologies are providing
opportunities to use big data in support of agriculture
initiatives, including the ones funded by the World Bank.
This solution brief defines what big data is in the context
of the developing world, presents a series of case studies
on how big data has already been used to date, and
identifies some lessons learned and potential opportunities
for the use of big data in supporting the achievement of
agricultural outcomes in the developing world. |
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