by Lili Szilagyi | Aug 3, 2018 | Agronomy CoP, News
USAID case study highlights CIAT’s data-driven agronomy work An overview of how CIAT is using data analytics to help farmers make better on-farm decisions. Ten years ago, the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) began exploring a new approach to use...
by Lili Szilagyi | Aug 3, 2018 | Agronomy CoP, News
Aligning needs with solutions: Data-driven agricultural innovation for Vietnam’s farmers “The technology users – the farmers – are central to technology development,” said Dharani Dhar Burra, data scientist at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)....
by Jawoo Koo | Aug 1, 2018 | Geospatial CoP
Remote sensing-based crop mapping in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is challenging due to the small field size, intercropping, different crop species with similar phenologies, and high cloud frequency during the growing season. Ingrid Öborn, the Southeast Asia Regional...
by Contributing Writer | Jun 8, 2018 | Communities of Practice, News, SocioEconomic CoP
If Mary has a little lamb, who should know about it? The GDPR and data science for agricultural development are at odds when it comes to delivering personalized products for the public good. Photo by Noel Reynolds The new European law on privacy and data...
by Lili Szilagyi | Jun 7, 2018 | Agronomy CoP, Communities of Practice, CoP page, News
Data cleaning, the unsexy but essential aspect of data science “We have decades of agricultural data that used to be locked up that are now made available. Most of them are unstructured, so it’s kind of a mess,” said Daniel Jimenez. Data science involves creating...
by Eliza Villarino | May 28, 2018 | CoP page, Crop Modeling CoP, News
Here’s how to do bean breeding the climate-smart way ‘We need to do “preemptive breeding” if we want to sustain bean production under the more erratic climate of the future’ Photo by Neil Palmer Projections about the future indicate many parts...
