Big Data for climate-smart agriculture

From forecasting presidential elections to predicting disease outbreaks, analysts are finding ways to turn Big Data — the immense stocks of information collected in computers worldwide — into an invaluable resource for planning and decision-making. Now, scientists at the International Center for...

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Main Author: CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
Format: Brochure
Language:Inglés
Published: 2015
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/65077
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Summary:From forecasting presidential elections to predicting disease outbreaks, analysts are finding ways to turn Big Data — the immense stocks of information collected in computers worldwide — into an invaluable resource for planning and decision-making. Now, scientists at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) have applied Big Data tools to pinpoint strategies that work for small-scale farmers in a changing climate.