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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Main Author:	World Bank
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2017
Subjects:	BIG DATA SMART AGRICULTURE FINANCIAL INCLUSION TARGETED ADVICE
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

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spelling	okr-10986-264362021-04-23T14:04:36Z Big Data Solutions : Innovative Approaches to Overcoming Agricultural Challenges in Developing Nations by Harnessing the Power of Analytics World Bank BIG DATA SMART AGRICULTURE FINANCIAL INCLUSION TARGETED ADVICE 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. 2017-04-24T20:12:02Z 2017-04-24T20:12:02Z 2015-06 Working Paper 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 English en_US CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Working Paper
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description	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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title	Big Data Solutions : Innovative Approaches to Overcoming Agricultural Challenges in Developing Nations by Harnessing the Power of Analytics
title_short	Big Data Solutions : Innovative Approaches to Overcoming Agricultural Challenges in Developing Nations by Harnessing the Power of Analytics
title_full	Big Data Solutions : Innovative Approaches to Overcoming Agricultural Challenges in Developing Nations by Harnessing the Power of Analytics
title_fullStr	Big Data Solutions : Innovative Approaches to Overcoming Agricultural Challenges in Developing Nations by Harnessing the Power of Analytics
title_full_unstemmed	Big Data Solutions : Innovative Approaches to Overcoming Agricultural Challenges in Developing Nations by Harnessing the Power of Analytics
title_sort	big data solutions : innovative approaches to overcoming agricultural challenges in developing nations by harnessing the power of analytics
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
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url	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
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Big Data Solutions : Innovative Approaches to Overcoming Agricultural Challenges in Developing Nations by Harnessing the Power of Analytics

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