Events

Background

Digital agriculture encompasses an array of technologies, channels, and analytic capabilities that are  applied to make farming more precise, productive, and profitable. Digitization of farming systems, based on true interactivity with farmers over digital channels, is becoming critical for adaptation to climate change. The precise management of production factors made possible by digital technologies can improve the cost-efficiency of input use while helping to boost productivity per unit of land. Big data, generated in the pursuit of farming intensification on individual farms, can enable analyses on a larger scale that can inform adaptation planning across landscapes or regions. Combining climate information with good quality, site-specific data on factors such as on soil fertility and erosion risk enables implementers to make decisions which take into account the sustainable productive potential of land in the near and long term. However, until today the opportunities offered by digital agriculture have not been effectively utilized for adaptation decision making in developing countries. This session will outline the key opportunities to apply digital agriculture solutions in adaptation planning, provide examples of successful implementation and discuss challenges and opportunities to achieve scale.

Session objectives

• Showcase opportunities offered by digital agriculture to leapfrog adaptation pathways.
• Discuss the business and economic case for investing in digital agriculture.
• Identify challenges and opportunities to achieve scale with digital agriculture.

Expected outcomes

• Secure inputs from stakeholders to a forthcoming supplement to the NAP technical guidelines, with a focus on digital agriculture.

Agenda

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