opening data, information and knowledge for agriculture development
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Ajit Maru,Senior Knowledge Officer at Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the UN, OiC, SRO at Global Forum on Agricultural Research presented where the international agricutural open access movement is heading towards.TRANSCRIPT
Opening Data, Information and Knowledge for Agricultural Development
Ajit MaruGFAR Secretariat, Rome
Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR)
http:/www.egfar.org
Agenda
• India’s Agricultural Development Challenges• India’s choices for agricultural information
and knowledge services• Challenges of Agricultural Information and
Knowledge Management in India• The Global Movement in Open Agricultural
Data, Information and Knowledge• Benefits of Open Data and Information• CIARD and GODAN• CIARD Sevices• ICAR and CIARD
India’s Agricultural Development Challenges
Highly Competitive Markets Climate Change
Diminishing Access to Natural Resources and
Rising Energy and Fossil Fuel Costs
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Loss of Agro-BiodiversityAdequately feed its population
Safe, nutritious, quality food
Produce Industrial FeedstockFor Agro-Industries
Generate Employmentespecially for Educated
Youth in Rural Areas
India’s Agricultural Development Challenges
Highly Competitive Markets Climate Change
Diminishing Access to Natural Resources and
Rising Energy and Fossil Fuel Costs
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Loss of Agro-BiodiversityAdequately feed its population
Safe, nutritious, quality food
Produce Industrial FeedstockFor Agro-Industries
Generate Employmentespecially for Educated
Youth in Rural Areas
India to meet these challenges needs to make its agriculture more knowledge intensive and India to meet these challenges needs to make its
agriculture more knowledge intensive and knowledge based.
It has to recognize that information and knowledge are now critical inputs for entire agri-food chains that can
leverage the use of other farm inputs and for participating in competitive markets for agricultural products.
India’s choices for agricultural information and knowledge services
Proprietary SystemsOffering commercial
Information and KnowledgeServices
“Open” SystemsEnabling a variety of P-P-C
Partnership basedInformation and Knowledge
Services
Options In Between
India’s choices for agricultural information and knowledge services
• For various reasons, India cannot afford purely proprietary and for profit information and knowledge services.
• India has to opt for systems that are a continuation of the current trajectory of “open” information and knowledge systems.
Challenges of Agricultural Information and Knowledge Management in India
• India already has many of the fundamental requirements for “Open” Information Systems such as policies and infrastructure.
• India agricultural information systems face challenges in:– Generating useful, relevant, timely, trustworthy content for
its agricultural systems that are smallholder based– Integration of Information and Information Systems– Security of Information Systems– Property rights for data and information– Enabling effective use of data and information in the entire
agri-food chain and especially in farming communities
Challenges of Agricultural Information and Knowledge Management in India
• India faces critical challenges for content in:– Availability, – Accessibility – Applicability – Affordability– Appropriation of information content by user
communities
The Global Movement in Open Agricultural Data, Information and Knowledge
• Growing Global movement for “Open Governments” which includes India
• Open availability and access to government and publicly funded programs data and information is a basic tenet of the open government model
• Open availability and access enables rapid innovation and development and creates huge potential for knowledge services that can generate employment and livelihoods
The Global Movement in Open Agricultural Data, Information and Knowledge
Major International Actors in Agricultural Development, World Bank, UNO including FAO, CGIAR and GFAR follow open data and information policies and open data models for their data and information management
Benefits of Open Data and Information
• New information and knowledge to be generated• Localize globally available information and knowledge and enable it to be
used more effectively• Increase efficiency and effectiveness of research and its outputs and
innovation in time, cost, quality and human effort• Reduce reinvention and repetition of research efforts • Allow greater inclusiveness and participation in research and innovation• Bring cross-disciplinary and specialized skills to agricultural research and for
innovation• Reduce “market failure” or inability to use research outputs effectively
and/or efficiently• Create new research directions and avenues• Bring greater equity in using agricultural knowledge across and among
communities
Benefits of Open Data and Information
IMD
ISRO
Weather and Climate
Geo-spatialGPS
NRSAGround and Surface WaterVegetationSoil
NSS
PopulationDemographyCensusEconomic
Environmental Agencies
Air QualityWater QualityLand Pollution
ICAR/Agricultural Ministries And departments/ SAUs
Plant GeneticsFertilizerWater consumptionIrrigationLand useAgronomic PracticesDiseases and PestsCrop YieldsSoil DataDocuments
Trade andCommerce
Ministry
Markets
National, State, DistrictTaluk, Block, Farm, Field
Plot level data and information
Biotic PropertiesInteractions
Farming Conditions
Management of Agri-foodChains in India
CIARD and GODAN
• CIARD Movement advocates, build capacities, facilitates sharing, exchange of information and collaboration in development of information systems as also provides a platform to discuss information flows related to agricultural research, innovation and development.
• Major international actors in agricultural development including the FAO, GFAR, CGIAR, CTA, CABI, DFID, MAE of France, CIRAD along with several others have evolved CIARD as a global movement.
• Recently a high level advocacy platform the Global Open Data for Agricultural and Nutrition (GODAN) has been initiated by USA and Great Britain through the G8 and G20 group of countries.
• Many of the CIARD actors are also members of GODAN.
CIARD SERVICES
• Checklists and Good Practices• Pathways• CIARD RING• AIMS • agINFRA • AgriVIVO• Agrifeeds
CIARD RING
• The CIARD Routemap to Information Nodes and Gateways (RING) is a global directory of web-based services that will give access to any kind of information sources pertaining to agricultural research for development (ARD).
• The RING aims to provide an infrastructure to improve the accessibility of the outputs of agricultural research and of information relevant to ARD management.
• There are more than 490 Institutional members providing more than 1000 information services and 290 data sets of the CIARD.RING.
ICAR and CIARD
• The ICAR has officially permitted its Institutions and Programs to be part of the CIARD movement
• At the Institution level, the partnership with CIARD is not well demonstrated. It is below par compared to other major national and International agricultural research and development systems
• India can both benefit and contribute to the CIARD movement
• The global community waits eagerly in anticipation for India to be a leader in this area.
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