Exploring bottom-up and frugal innovations transforming the farm in the global North and South.
According to many observers agriculture is on the eve of a revolution, as digitalization is expected to disrupt and transform this - to date 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. As agriculture is a sector virtually ignored by frugal innovations studies to date (Hossain 2017), and the emerging studies on digital farming (or ‘smart farming’) tend to overlook low-cost and/or bottom-up innovations, we invited Oane Visser for a presentation about the junctions between these academic fields.
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