A5037008289- Agricultural Innovations and Practices
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Organic Food and Agriculture
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development
- Smart Agriculture and AI
- CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Climate Change Communication and Perception
- History of Science and Medicine
- Biomedical Ethics and Regulation
- Agricultural risk and resilience
- FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance
- Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
- Energy and Environment Impacts
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Smart Cities and Technologies
- Greenhouse Technology and Climate Control
Virginia Tech
2021-2024
South Dakota State University
2017-2021
Iowa State University
2016
Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) is an important discourse among national governments in Africa and international policy circles to increase food productivity, build smallholder farmers' resilience climate change, mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. Despite presenting several potential economic environmental benefits farmers, its adoption African farmers low. Two aspects that influence the of CSA are inclusion exclusion local knowledge how upscaled Africa. This article uses a systematic review...
Abstract Artificial intelligence (AI) represents technologies with human‐like cognitive abilities to learn, perform, and make decisions. AI in precision agriculture (PA) enables farmers farm managers deploy highly targeted precise farming practices based on site‐specific agroclimatic field measurements. The foundational applied development of has matured considerably over the last 30 years. time is now right engage seriously ethics responsible practice for well‐being managers. In this paper,...
The emergence of precision agriculture technologies has brought forward new opportunities and challenges in the agricultural sector. We delve into role living labs as dynamic platforms for fostering responsible innovation agriculture. highlight our early experiences regarding processes best practices by which an interdisciplinary research team uses a methodological approach to design test trustworthy PA innovation. Our methodology is composed five interrelated activities: (a) face-to-face...
In industrialized societies, techno-optimism is a belief that human ingenuity, through improved science and technology, will ultimately provide remedies to most current future threats well-being, such as diseases, climate change, poverty. Here we examine (a) whether found among Midwestern corn soybean farmers (b) how this confidence in ingenuity influences their support for change adaptation. By examining data from survey of nearly 5,000 grain the United States, greater can reduce farmers’...
Agricultural decision support systems (DSSs) are hardware and software tools that utilize big data collected from satellites drones, ground-based sensors, analyzed with machine learning algorithms to provide site-specific farming recommendations. Despite the promise of DSSs address many challenges farm economy, there social ethical concerns need be addressed. Utilizing a mixed-methods approach consisted focus group discussions follow-up survey questionnaire, we highlight experiences...
Communities' risk perceptions can influence their abilities to cope with coastal hazards such as hurricanes and flooding. Our study presents an initial effort examine the relationship between community resilience perception at county level, through innovative construction of aggregate variables. Using 2012 Gulf Coast Climate Change Survey merged historical hurricane data indicators, we first apply a spatial statistical model construct county-level indicator based on survey responses. Next,...
Abstract Extant systematic literature reviews on the topic of climate smart agriculture (CSA) have mainly focused two issues: reviewing framing CSA discourse in academic and policy literature; initiatives Global South that enhance adoption climate‐smart agricultural practices. Yet, there is little investigation into how international organizations can help smallholder farmers manage systems to respond change. Analyzing these organization's priorities highlighting their knowledge gaps are...
Abstract The use of intelligent decision support systems (DSS) in precision farming provides an opportunity to improve agricultural recommendations and reduce the impacts agriculture on environment. Despite benefits offered by DDS, many farmers remain skeptical using these hardware software tools, their adoption rates have remained low. A survey 312 South Dakota examined barriers opportunities for engagement with DSS. Exploratory factor analysis was used analyze 13 Likert scale items that...
Emerging technologies in food and energy systems present unique problems of resource governance. Here, we distinct case studies to examine two emerging systems; solar parks India precision agriculture the US. We ask following question: How do existing modes governance new create physical virtual dispossessionary enclosures for rural producers? argue that sustainability governance, insofar as neoliberal state enables agritech firm hegemony at expense local producers. Albeit unevenly, such...
Abstract Potential climate‐change‐related impacts to agriculture in the upper Midwest pose serious economic and ecological risks U.S. global economy. On a local level, farmers are at forefront of responding climate change. Hence, it is important understand how their farm operations may be more or less vulnerable changes climate. A vulnerability index tool commonly used by researchers practitioners represent geographical distribution response Most assessments measure objective adaptive...
We examine the interactions, decisions, and evaluations of an interdisciplinary team researchers tasked with developing artificial intelligence-based agricultural decision support system that can provide farmers site-specific information about managing nutrients on their land. answer following research questions: (1) How does a relational perspective help conceptualize 'responsibility' in project develops precision agriculture (PA)? (2) What are some lessons for embarking similar technology...
Robert D. Bullard is the Dean of Barbara Jordan-Mickey Leland School Public Affairs at Texas Southern University in Houston, Texas. He often described as father environmental justice. Professor received his Ph.D. from Iowa State University. author seventeen books that address sustainable development, racism, urban land use, industrial facility siting, community reinvestment, housing, transportation, climate justice, emergency response, smart growth, and regional equity. In this interview,...
Climate change policies are prepared in a power-loaded environment, where different policy actors interact to meet their personal or collective interests. This paper argues that the 'power interplay' between plays significant role shaping and re-shaping climate policies. We present examples from South Asia (Nepal, India, Bangladesh, Pakistan) show how actors' power interplay at local, sub-national, national transboundary levels influences policy-making. negative effects of prominent domain...
Abstract Cover crops are grown between periods of regular crop production or planted into with the primary purpose protecting and improving soil health. These possess several resilience-enhancing properties that well suited to help farmers adapt climate change. Through an “adaptive capacities framework,” we examine how farmers’ adaptive capacities—contextualized within institutional environmental conditions—can influence their decision use cover crops. We generalized linear mixed models...
Despite the proliferation of power approaches to study climate change, there is little focus on how deal with negative effects in change adaptation (CCA) policy-making. CCA literature provides insight into understandings manifestations that can create effects, especially context South Asia. This review answers question: How policy actors during policy-making process? We used a two-layered systematic identify various are responsible for Asia and determine power-sensitive design principles...
Abstract Precision agriculture (PA) has been defined as a “management strategy that gathers, processes and analyzes temporal, spatial individual data combines it with other information to support management decisions according estimated variability for improved resource use efficiency, productivity, quality, profitability sustainability of agricultural production.” This definition suggests because PA should simultaneously increase food production reduce the environmental footprint, barriers...
The White House National Strategy on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health (National Strategy) encourages actions across government society to promote nutrition security. Nutrition security includes adequate food, diet quality, equity, food retail settings can these major concepts. Of all whole-of-society calls action, retailers contribute 15 as key actors. However, there is currently no standardized monitoring tool track retailers' commitments toward the Business Impact Assessment-Obesity...