Where is my crop? Data-driven initiatives to support integrated multi-stakeholder agricultural decisions
Globally, there has been an explosion of data generation in agriculture. With such a deluge of data available, it has become essential to create solutions that organize, analyze, and visualize it to gain actionable insights, which can guide farmers, scientists, or policy makers to take better decisi...
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| author | Andrade, Robert Santiago Urioste, Sergio Rivera Vasco, Tatiana Carolina Schiek, Benjamin Nyakundi, Fridah Nyabate Vergara, Jose Mwanzia, Leroy Loaiza, Katherine González, Carolina |
| author_browse | Andrade, Robert Santiago González, Carolina Loaiza, Katherine Mwanzia, Leroy Nyakundi, Fridah Nyabate Rivera Vasco, Tatiana Carolina Schiek, Benjamin Urioste, Sergio Vergara, Jose |
| author_facet | Andrade, Robert Santiago Urioste, Sergio Rivera Vasco, Tatiana Carolina Schiek, Benjamin Nyakundi, Fridah Nyabate Vergara, Jose Mwanzia, Leroy Loaiza, Katherine González, Carolina |
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| description | Globally, there has been an explosion of data generation in agriculture. With such a deluge of data available, it has become essential to create solutions that organize, analyze, and visualize it to gain actionable insights, which can guide farmers, scientists, or policy makers to take better decisions that lead to transformative actions for agriculture. There is a plethora of digital innovations in agriculture that implement big data techniques to harness solutions from large amounts of data, however, there is also a significant gap in access to these innovations among stakeholders of the value chains, with smallholder's farmers facing higher risks. Open data platforms have emerged as an important source of information for this group of producers but are still far from reaching their full potential. While the growing number of such initiatives has improved the availability and reach of data, it has also made the collection and processing of this information more difficult, widening the gap between those who can process and interpret this information and those who cannot. The Crop Observatories are presented in this article as an initiative that aims to harmonize large amounts of crop-specific data from various open access sources to build relevant indicators for decision making. Observatories are being developed for rice, cassava, beans, plantain and banana, and tropical forages, containing information on production, prices, policies, breeding, agronomy, and socioeconomic variables of interest. The Observatories are expected to become a lighthouse that attracts multi-stakeholders to avoid “not see the forest for the trees” and to advance research and strengthen crop economic systems. The process of developing the Observatories, as well as the methods for data collection, analysis, and display, is described. The main results obtained by the recently launched Rice Observatory (www.riceobservatory.org), and the about to be launched Cassava Observatory are presented, contextualizing their potential use and importance for multi-stakeholders of both crops. The article concludes with a list of lessons learned and next steps for the Observatories, which are also expected to guide the development of similar initiatives. Observatories, beyond presenting themselves as an alternative for improving data-driven decision making, can become platforms for collaboration on data issues and digital innovations within each sector. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1165072025-11-11T17:43:25Z Where is my crop? Data-driven initiatives to support integrated multi-stakeholder agricultural decisions Andrade, Robert Santiago Urioste, Sergio Rivera Vasco, Tatiana Carolina Schiek, Benjamin Nyakundi, Fridah Nyabate Vergara, Jose Mwanzia, Leroy Loaiza, Katherine González, Carolina data digital technology access to information open data data collection decision making stakeholders smallholders tecnología digital acceso a la información datos abiertos horticulture ecology food science Globally, there has been an explosion of data generation in agriculture. With such a deluge of data available, it has become essential to create solutions that organize, analyze, and visualize it to gain actionable insights, which can guide farmers, scientists, or policy makers to take better decisions that lead to transformative actions for agriculture. There is a plethora of digital innovations in agriculture that implement big data techniques to harness solutions from large amounts of data, however, there is also a significant gap in access to these innovations among stakeholders of the value chains, with smallholder's farmers facing higher risks. Open data platforms have emerged as an important source of information for this group of producers but are still far from reaching their full potential. While the growing number of such initiatives has improved the availability and reach of data, it has also made the collection and processing of this information more difficult, widening the gap between those who can process and interpret this information and those who cannot. The Crop Observatories are presented in this article as an initiative that aims to harmonize large amounts of crop-specific data from various open access sources to build relevant indicators for decision making. Observatories are being developed for rice, cassava, beans, plantain and banana, and tropical forages, containing information on production, prices, policies, breeding, agronomy, and socioeconomic variables of interest. The Observatories are expected to become a lighthouse that attracts multi-stakeholders to avoid “not see the forest for the trees” and to advance research and strengthen crop economic systems. The process of developing the Observatories, as well as the methods for data collection, analysis, and display, is described. The main results obtained by the recently launched Rice Observatory (www.riceobservatory.org), and the about to be launched Cassava Observatory are presented, contextualizing their potential use and importance for multi-stakeholders of both crops. The article concludes with a list of lessons learned and next steps for the Observatories, which are also expected to guide the development of similar initiatives. Observatories, beyond presenting themselves as an alternative for improving data-driven decision making, can become platforms for collaboration on data issues and digital innovations within each sector. 2021-12-03 2021-12-03T15:52:45Z 2021-12-03T15:52:45Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/116507 en Open Access application/pdf Frontiers Media Andrade, R.; Urioste, S.; Rivera, T.; Schiek, B.; Nyakundi, F.; Vergara, J.; Mwanzia, L.; Loaiza, K.; Gonzalez, C. (2021) Where is my crop? Data-driven initiatives to support integrated multi-stakeholder agricultural decisions. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems 5: 737528. 16 p. ISSN: 2571-581X |
| spellingShingle | data digital technology access to information open data data collection decision making stakeholders smallholders tecnología digital acceso a la información datos abiertos horticulture ecology food science Andrade, Robert Santiago Urioste, Sergio Rivera Vasco, Tatiana Carolina Schiek, Benjamin Nyakundi, Fridah Nyabate Vergara, Jose Mwanzia, Leroy Loaiza, Katherine González, Carolina Where is my crop? Data-driven initiatives to support integrated multi-stakeholder agricultural decisions |
| title | Where is my crop? Data-driven initiatives to support integrated multi-stakeholder agricultural decisions |
| title_full | Where is my crop? Data-driven initiatives to support integrated multi-stakeholder agricultural decisions |
| title_fullStr | Where is my crop? Data-driven initiatives to support integrated multi-stakeholder agricultural decisions |
| title_full_unstemmed | Where is my crop? Data-driven initiatives to support integrated multi-stakeholder agricultural decisions |
| title_short | Where is my crop? Data-driven initiatives to support integrated multi-stakeholder agricultural decisions |
| title_sort | where is my crop data driven initiatives to support integrated multi stakeholder agricultural decisions |
| topic | data digital technology access to information open data data collection decision making stakeholders smallholders tecnología digital acceso a la información datos abiertos horticulture ecology food science |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/116507 |
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