Through the 2019 Inspire Challenge project, Gamifying weather forecasting: “Let it rain” campaign, farmers can take to their mobile phones to predict what day the rainy season will start. Climate change is taking a toll across east Africa, with erratic weather hitting...
CGIAR, an international agricultural research consortium, awarded the project a $250,000 scale-up grant under its Inspire Challenge program, part of the CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture. The program is designed to source and foster new solutions for digital...
By leveraging massive amounts of data and using innovative computational analysis, the CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture is working to help farmers increase their efficiency and reduce the risks that are inherent in farming, according to the article. Asked if...
Over the past few months, Pulse Lab Jakarta, together with the CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture, has been exploring various use cases, benefits and pitfalls from the use of non-conventional data, such as anonymised mobile network data, internet traffic and...
Addressing delegates at the inaugural function of a three-day convention on Big Data in Agriculture 2019 organized by the CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture and hosted by the International Crop Research Centre for Semi-arid Tropics (ICRISAT). Jayesh Ranjan...
