The Centre for Frugal Innovation in Africa is hosting a Frugal Seminar Session with Oane Visser who will explore bottom-up innovations in digital farming.
- Speaker
- Date
- Thursday 5 Apr 2018, 15:00 - 16:30
- Type
- Seminar
- Room
- 1.31
- Location
- International Institute of Social Studies
Background
According to many observers agriculture is on the eve of a revolution, digitalization is expected to transform the largely untouched sector.
While ‘digital farming’, exemplified by GPS-steered combines, field scans with drones and milk robots, is often high-tech, capital-intensive, and focused on large commercial farms in the global North, that is not the full picture. Both in smaller-scale farm sectors and peripheral regions of Europe, as well as in the global South, low-cost and frugal digital farm technologies are being developed and adopted, targeted at smaller farms.
The emerging studies on digital farming (or ‘smart farming’) tend to overlook low-cost and bottom-up innovations, this presentation aims to explore junctions between these academic fields.
About the speaker
Oane Visser is associate professor at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), The Hague, of Erasmus University Rotterdam. He has been visiting scholar at University of Oxford, City University New York, Cornell University and University of Toronto.
His research focuses on farmland investment, large-scale farms, digital farming, smallholders, interactions between small and large farms, and rural cooperation, particularly in Russia, Ukraine, Romania and the Netherlands.
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