Key drivers of ICT in Agriculture and Food Systems

I believe that food systems should be sustainable.

When we redesign our food systems, the use of ICT and digital technologies will be valuable to increase agricultural productivity, reduce GHG emissions, improve biodiversity, and provide food safety and security. This will create great impact on the achievement of the UN SDGs, economic development, and welfare.

Let’s look at the key drivers of the ICT in agriculture:

1. Low-cost and pervasive connectivity to mobile cellular phones along agri-food chains;

2. Adaptable and more affordable sensing technologies and mobile devices with multi-sensory inputs and outputs;

3. Advances in data storage capacity, interoperability and ability to exchange information, linking to decision support systems and GIS;

4. New business development strategies, innovative business models, networking, new partnerships and forms of investment, digital literacy of users, and agricultural expertise;

5. Interactions of ICTs with biology, biotechnology, nanotechnology, space technology and materials science;

6. Accessible agricultural information and science for institutions, SMEs, farmers and other stakeholders.

Wild Lily from Karagöl-Sahara National Park by Yusuf Tokdemir

Why to Apply Agroecoloy?

There is increasing consideration of widespread policy changes to have the competitive advantages of the agroecology to transform food and agricultural systems towards more sustainable and equitable food systems in and around cities and rural areas.

We have to consider its elements in planning, managing and evaluating agroecological transitions. These are diversity, sharing of knowledge, synergies, efficiency, recycling, human and social values, culture and food traditions, product development, responsible governance, circular and solidarity economy.

It seems that effectively applying these elements can contribute to socioeconomic development, generate employment and improvements in ecosystem services and create sustainable agriculture and food systems. Therefore, agroecology and food policy emerge strongly on local development agendas as a network of cities to build synergy and competitive advantages in the world today.

Biodiversity and ecosystem services

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