Smart Connected Farms and Networked Farmers to Tackle Climate Challenges Impacting Agricultural Production

TL;DR

This paper reviews how smart connected farms and networked farmers, leveraging advances in ICT, data analytics, and social sciences, can help address climate change impacts on agriculture by enhancing productivity and resilience.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of the current state of smart connected farms, integrating engineering, data science, and social sciences to address climate challenges in agriculture.

Findings

Smart connected farms improve resilience to climate impacts.

Networked farmers enhance productivity and profitability.

Advances in ICT and data analytics support sustainable agriculture.

Abstract

To meet the grand challenges of agricultural production including climate change impacts on crop production, a tight integration of social science, technology and agriculture experts including farmers are needed. There are rapid advances in information and communication technology, precision agriculture and data analytics, which are creating a fertile field for the creation of smart connected farms (SCF) and networked farmers. A network and coordinated farmer network provides unique advantages to farmers to enhance farm production and profitability, while tackling adverse climate events. The aim of this article is to provide a comprehensive overview of the state of the art in SCF including the advances in engineering, computer sciences, data sciences, social sciences and economics including data privacy, sharing and technology adoption.