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1. Imagining Precision Farming in AfricaAfrica needs its own and unique Green Revolution now, but it can also take advantage of many lessons learned all over the world. Precision farming is much more than the application of advanced, expensive technologies for managing soils and crops on a commercial scale. In the African context, it is all about better agronomy at any scale, including small and medium-size farms. Many ingredients for that exist already, whereas others still need to find their way into scalable business soluti... A. Dobermann |
2. Decision Aids: Mobile Apps and SensorsProducers are challenged daily with decisions. With the advancement in technologies the access to decision aid tools is becoming more wide spread. This decussion covers a few of the easily to use and apply technologies available. ... B. Arnall |
3. Mapping African soils at 30m resolution - iSDAsoil - Western Time Zones“iSDAsoil” combines remote sensing data and other geospatial information with carefully stratified point samples subjected to spectral analysis and traditional wet chemistry reference analysis. State of the art machine learning techniques were used to create digital maps of 17 agronomically important soil properties at 3 depths, including estimates of uncertainty. iSDAsoil is designed to encourage sharing and we hope that the owners of other soil and agronomic data, in i... J. Crouch, K. Shephard, M. Miller, J. Collinson, P. Singh, P. Pypers, R. Van den bosch, C. Van beek, M. Chernet, S. Aston |
4. On-farm experimentation. A major role for precision agriculture in African agricultureIs precision agriculture relevant to African Ag? Most people envision fancy technology when they consider precision agriculture (PA). Indeed, over the past 30 years or more PA has introduced a range of exciting technologies to agriculture. But the real change is not the technology itself, but the new ways technology enables farmers to manage complex and uncertain systems. This message dates back to the early days of PA but has been superseded by technological prowess and needs to be... S. Cook |
5. Mapping African soils at 30m resolution - iSDAsoil - Eastern Time Zones“iSDAsoil” combines remote sensing data and other geospatial information with carefully stratified point samples subjected to spectral analysis and traditional wet chemistry reference analysis. State of the art machine learning techniques were used to create digital maps of 17 agronomically important soil properties at 3 depths, including estimates of uncertainty. iSDAsoil is designed to encourage sharing and we hope that the owners of other soil and agronomic data, in i... C. Van beek, M. Chernet, S. Aston, M. Miller, J. Collinson, K. Shephard, J. Crouch, T. Terhoeven-urselmans |
6. The Value and Potential of On-Farm Experimentation to Catalyze Agricultural TransformationOn-farm experimentation (OFE), which inculcates farmers’ agency in knowledge discovery, has the potential to support and accelerate transformative agronomy at scale. The OFE process within the Nutrient-Catalyzed Agricultural Transformation in Africa (NUTCAT) project, encompasses farmer engagements, set-up of simple, easy-to-understand treatment designs, and contextual analysis of the data to enhance the relevance of the results to farmers. Ultimately, it is envisaged that this process w... I. Adolwa, J. Muthamia, C. Lutomia, , S. Cook |
7. On-Farm Experimentation Process Triggers Farmers’ Zeal to Test Technologies in Maize Systems of Embu County, KenyaTo faster farmer participation, knowledge transfer and innovation among all actors, there the need to rethink the process of conducting research. Initiated in 2022, the African Plant Nutrition Research Fund maize project (APNRF maize) set out validate a package of soil moisture and fertilizer nitrogen management practices, and to track farmer adoption of better agronomic practices as supported by data through on-farm experimentation (OFE) process. Prior to the establishment of experiments, fa... O. Kitonyo |
8. Benefits of Precision Agriculture in Sugarcane Farming: A case of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa... N. Gumede |