ICTs transforming agricultural science, research and technology generation
Think Piece 1
Ehud Gelb gelb@agri.huji.ac.il
What are "ICT for Agriculture" – in the context of a
discussion evaluating ICT's impact on agricultural science
during the Science Forum 2009 ICT Workshop
Think piece goal – within the workshop scope:
"What is the nature of
frontier information and communications science and technology in the area of
agricultural research..." the think piece goal is to provide a background
overview which will enable the workshop discussions to define a workable
framework of ICT definitions. This to facilitate ICT impact evaluation, insights
and mainly recommendations for future ICT policies and development again
within the workshop framework outline:
1) What is the nature of frontier information and communications science and
technology in the area of agricultural research and how is it poised for long-term or
medium-term application?
(2) Where and what is the potential for development impact from this area of science
and technology?
(3) What new arrangements, improved linkages and partnerships, need to be
developed to deliver a positive impact of this science and technology on agriculture,
the production of global public goods for development through progress in agriculture
and the lives of the rural poor, especially the resource poor farmers and agricultural
producers?
(4) Which applications could feasibly achieve development impact through take-up
into national systems (of economically and technologically developing countries), and
which have long-term potential for development impact, but lack an immediate
development pathway?
Introduction – Defining ICT - what they are, what they do and what is their
impact.
Defining Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in the context of
ICT's impact on agricultural science - with a focus on emerging economies today
- is a daunting challenge. The many difficulties in workplace definitions – to mention
just a few current examples - are due to the pace of ICT innovation, different
interpretations of ICT applications, their actual adoption, development methodologies,
measurement of benefit, interaction with and impact on other Technologies.
Consequently there is a need to unify definitions in the context of the workshop in
order to facilitate the discussions and assist in formulating insights, conclusions and
recommendations.
One way to rationalize the definitions of ICT in a meaningful way in the context of
this workshop's priorities is to see how ICT are/were currently featured in various
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international forums and in communications with colleagues. The following listings
summarize such an attempt based on conference-call for papers, abstracts titles,
mention of what ICT does and a more detailed summary of the recent Joint
Conference of IAALD, AFITA and WCCA last August. One way to use this Think
piece is to follow the grouping suggested in A. Maru's note – item 1. The workshop
can integrate these to choose the workshop definitions:
1. A Short Note on ICTs impact on agricultural science (page 2)
2. ICT Subjects as outlined for the WCCA June 2009 Congress
3. The 3d Int'l Conference on Computer & Computing
Technologies in Agriculture (CCTA2009) Call for Papers (pg.3)
4. Joint International Agricultural Conference (JIAC ) 2009 Call
for Abstracts
(page 4)
5. ICT in Agriculture
(page 6)
6. ICT Categories for Extension
(page 7)
7. ICTs as Enablers of Process Change in Agriculture
(page 7)
8. New Terms – some examples
(page 7)
9. Notes from personal communications
(page 8)
10.Papers presented at the Joint of IAALD, AFITA and WCCA
Conference – Japan 2008
(from page 9 – 18)
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A Short Note on ICT's impact on agricultural science - Science
Forum 2009 ICT Workshop preliminary outline – circulated by Ajit
Maru, the SF2009 ICT workshop coordinator
ICT impacts agricultural science in many ways. These can be clustered around:
a. Number Crunching and Data Management - Enabling management, sharing
and processing of large datasets, modeling, simulation and visualization that
contributes to plant and animal breeding and improvement, bioinformatics,
agricultural meteorology, plant, animal and zoonotic diseases epidemiology, farming
systems research etc.
b. Geo-spatial applications Enabling data and information related to geography
and space to be managed, processed and visualized and contributing to land and water
use planning, natural resources utilization, agricultural input supply and commodity
marketing, poverty and hunger mapping etc.
c. Knowledge based systems and robotics Enabling data and information to be
organized with added experiences of experts to contribute to mimic, multiply and use
expertise especially in searching information and data semantically, diagnosis and
farm and agricultural process automation
d. Embedded ICTs in Farm equipment and processes Enabling greater
efficiencies in farm equipment and agricultural processes and in what is termed
precision agriculture as also in agricultural products transport and marketing such as
the use RFIDs, Wireless Internet and Cellular Telephony in labeling, traceability and
identity preservation
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e. Connecting Communities Using ICTs to connect communities such as of
farmers, researchers and all connected to agriculture and its practice. ICTs are already
playing a significant role in connecting scientists and researchers in agriculture to
communicate to each other and in scientific and technical publications. Use of ICTs to
connect farmers and producers to new agricultural knowledge and technology and in
problem resolution have been tested and found very useful so much so that ICTs are
now considered to be transforming agricultural extension.
2. ICT Subjects as outlined for the WCCA June 2009 Congress
The link to the conference and call for papers is
http://www.wcca2009.org/introduction.htm
The WCCA Congress will provide a forum for agriculture related professionals to
exchange information on applications and developments in the use of Information
Technologies. It will cover a wide array of topics. These include new applications of
well established and understood technologies to innovative and entrepreneurial
applications of emerging technologies, in addition to issues related to policy and
knowledge dissemination. Topics include but are not limited to:
Adoption, Extension and Rural Development
Data Mining and pattern Recognition
Decision support Systems
e-AgBusiness and Production Chain Management
Education/Training, Distance Learning and Professional Accreditation
e-Learning and e-Journals
Emerging ICT Technologies
Farm Management
Field Data Acquisition and Recording
Food Safety Control/Tracking-Tracing
GIS
Grid Computing Applications
Information Systems and Databases
Instrumentation and Control /Data Acquisition, Monitoring and Sensing
Knowledge Management, Ontologies, Semantics and Text Mining
Web Services, Portals, Internet and Web 2.0 Applications
Library Science and Knowledge Representation
Modeling and Simulation
Packaging Science and Technology
Portable and Nomadic Computing
Precision Agriculture
Rural and Environmental Development and Policy
Traceability, Food Safety and Marketing
Wireless and Sensor Networks
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3. The Third International Conference on Computer & Computing
Technologies in Agriculture (CCTA2009) - Call for Papers
October, 2009 Beijing, China
http://www.iaia.org/modx/assets/files/CCTA2009-Call-for-Papers.pdf
Topics and areas of (ICT) interest include but are not limited to the following
Technologies in Agriculture:
� Agricultural Decision Support Systems
� Agricultural Expert Systems
� Intelligent Monitoring and Control
� ICT applications in Rural Area
� Communication Systems in Developing Countries
� Electronic Commerce-Communication Systems
� GIS, GPS, RS and Precision Farming
� Design and Evaluation of Information Systems
� E-Business: Multi-disciplinary research and practice
� ICT and Sustainable Development
� Machine Learning and Data Mining
� Intelligent Agents
� Artificial Intelligence Applications
� Computer Vision
� Computer graphics and virtual worlds
� Applied Mathematics
� Numerical Analysis
� Simulation, Optimization, Modeling
� Systems Theory
� Circuits and Systems
� Neural Networks
� Fuzzy Systems
� Multidimensional Systems
� Telecommunications
� Signal Processing
� Multimedia
� Wireless and Optical Communications
� Software Theory and Practice
� Computer Applications in Technology
� Systems Modeling and Optimization
� Information Systems
� Computers and Society
� Computer Systems Technology
� Security and Protection in Information Processing Systems
4. Joint International Agricultural Conference (JIAC) Call for
Abstracts – June 2009
http://www.jiac2009.nl/LinkClick.aspx?link=docs%2fCall+for+Abstracts.pdf&tabid=
482&mid=1241
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The objective of the JIAC is to provide a platform for networking and exchanging
knowledge and research efforts focusing on precision agriculture, precision livestock
farming and information technology in agriculture, food and the environment.
The program has the following three main themes:
 methodology,
 proof of principles
 demonstrations and ‘network discussions’.
To stimulate interaction and creative work methods a few cross-themes will also be
part of the program.
Theme 1: Methodology
1. Sensor technology, data collection, data analysis
Sensor technology (crop, animal, soil, water & climate)
a Nutrient status, water status,
physical properties (soil, water and climate)
b Growth and development
of crops and animals
c Health, welfare & diseases
in livestock farming
d Diseases, pests & weeds
in arable farming
e Product and process quality
Remote sensing
Geo-information infrastructure
Global Earth Observation (GEO)
Wireless sensing
Data quality
Geostatistics
Image analysis
2. Modeling in space and time
Crop
Animal
Soil
Scaling
System dynamics
Integrated modeling JIAC2009
Semantics in modeling
Agent based modeling
3. Decision making and management
Management zones
GIS
Economic modeling techniques
Operations research, optimization and optimal control
Artificial intelligence
Expert systems
4. Application technology, automation, guidance, robotics
Precision application
Variable rate technology
Automation and robotics
Farm logistics
Fleet management and route planning
5. Information technology
Information exchange
Standardization
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Information analysis techniques
Integrating databases
Service oriented architecture
Internet based systems
FMIS system architecture
E-business
E-government
E-learning
Advanced computing technology
Human-computer interaction
Advanced: visualization3.2
PROOF OF PRINCIPLES
AND DEMONSTRATIONS
Theme 2: Proof of principles and demonstrations
In this theme we would like to receive contributions demonstrating results and added
value in an applied context. They help us to show the potential application of the
scientific work increase relevance to end users and policy makers.
Topics of interest are:
Adoption (ICT, VRT, ..)
Economic improvement
Nature and environmental
impact
Social impact
Animal welfare
Value of management systems
Experiments in:
Arable farming
fruit and vegetable growing and arable cropping
Grassland production
Biological farming
Vineyard farming
Energy farming
Dairy farming
Pig farming
Poultry farming
Aquaculture e-marketing,
e-learning, e-government
Theme 3: Network Discussions
In this theme the objective is to exchange experiences between European projects, large national
projects, bring people together, do mutual agenda setting, etc. We would like to receive
contributions of on-going initiatives related to ICT and precision agriculture of precision livestock
farming addressing the following topics:
Stakeholder interaction and involvement (open innovation,
Rural living labs, communities of practice, etc.)
Relevance to EU developments (e.g. Galileo, INSPIRE, CAP, etc.)
The following potential themes are Challenges for Cross themes that cross the above three
themes and use the knowledge that is exchanged:
Climate change/
Sustainable Energy
New Food Economy
Food security/Fair trade
The digital divides
Rural Development
Quality of Life/
Food Safety & Quality
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Knowledge-driven economy
Proactive plant and animal
Disease protection
Common Core Constraints in ICT Adoption
5. ICT applications in Agriculture – An article in Wikipedia defines and
lists ICT categories with commentary on ICT in agriculture. The link is
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICT_in_agriculture
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Application of Knowledge Management System
Application of E-learning
Application of E-commerce
Application of ICT for managing Agricultural Resources and Services
Application of CAM (Computer Aided Manufacturing)
Application of CAD (Computer Aided Designing) CAD
Application of RFIDs
Application of Wireless Technologies
Application of GPS (Global Positioning Systems)
Application of GIS (Geographical Information Systems)
Application of Computer controlled devices (Automated systems)
6. ICT Categories for Extension
The following list of common ICTs terms for Agricultural Extension were compiled
from different sources and slightly modified, for better understanding and further
refinement not for commercial purpose by Dr. R.Saravanan Department of Extension
Education and Rural Sociology, College of Horticulture and Forestry, Central
Agricultural University (CAU). Email: saravananraj@hotmail.com
e-agriculture
cyber extension
agricultural extension
extension systems
Open Distance Learning
traditional extension
extension personnel
agents of change
Mobile telephony
Innovative Radio
Decision support systems, Management information systems and Expert
systems,
7. ICTs as Enablers of Process Change in Agriculture is a useful recent
background paper at http://www.iimahd.ernet.in/egov/ifip/feb2009/shunmugam.htm
8. Examples of relatively New Terms
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E-(xxx) – for example e-gov, e-edu, e-dev, ecoinformatics,….
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Bioinformatics.org, Comparative proteogenomics;
Nanotechnology;
Large scale semantic computing of semantic Web technologies for distributed
probabilistic reasoning for web-scale inference information retrieval
(LARKC) - Funded under the 7th FP;
Simulation = Automated Reasoning and Equation Solving;
Precision Agriculture;
Literacy results from literature, Electracy – e-literacy
9. Personal communications
In querying colleagues re defining ICT for Agricultural Science - what they are, what
they do and what is their impact - the following points were brought up and/or
mentioned. This during discussions with professional colleagues and a discussion
with staff from the Informatics Department of the Agricultural University of Athens:
 Shortening result attainment time – till result and then lead time till
application
 Alleviating search time - direct access to on line (known) info
 Problem – you have to know what you are looking for
 Share adoption commonalities with others
 Access to colleagues
 Support of colleagues
 Collaboration with colleagues on same project – reflects variability
 New options such as Nano tech, RFID e.g. in water/soil/processes to activate
"switches"
 Provided a new approach to innovations and innovation adoption
 Remote sensing for control of activities and quality
 Data collection and their interaction – with association with performance e.g.
level of protein in milk and changing it by food supplements
 Climate – forecast, long term topo-climate series,
 climate control – green houses, trend forecasting
 Precision agriculture – fertilizing small plots based on their analysis, future
smaller units e.g. program of water and fertilizer per tree
 No change in scientific methodology – just more effective same but
computerized not manual.
 Change of expectations – leaps and bounds, new areas – not slow linear,
 New type of scientist – new fields, new expertise (capabilities and proficiency)
 Integration,
 Collaboration,
 Time horizon for results,
 Flattened hierarchies,
 "Flat world"
 Players and stakeholders independent of local infrastructure – sharing
resources,
 Medicine – but will it be affordable – gap between ICT ability and wide
spread applicability – because of price and infrastructure
 Efficient use of energy and new resources
 Political impact Loss of individuality – a person will be a deciphered package,
 Reproduction – animal and human characteristics – inherited and engineered
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Participation – consumer and producer T&T interaction
Pre-evaluation of innovations – e.g. GM crops and re-evaluation of "forgotten
results"
Expanded and innovative definitions of "stakeholders" in various contexts
Neutralizing geography
Stakeholders as a source of innovation via field trials, data evaluation, etc
Data evaluation economies of scale, expanded scope of data sources
Conventional "manual" knowledge management can be irrelevant, inefficient,
etc
Dependence on ICT can be counter productive
10. Papers presented at the Joint Conference of IAALD, AFITA and
WCCA on Agricultural Information and IT
Tokyo, Japan, 24 - 27 August, 2008
The following link provides a full list of the papers presented at the 2008 conference.
The papers themselves are listed below
http://afita.ac.affrc.go.jp/wcca2008/program-list.htm
A summary of the workshop of papers and the ICT pre conference Workshop can be
accessed at http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website?contentId=-1&
The following are the keywords suggested on the conference site:
ICT policies for rural development, ICT adoption in rural community, egovernment, agricultural resources data banks and databases, agricultural
information system, e-agribusiness, traceability and virtual agri-markets, GAP,
extension service, digital library, education, training, pedagogical issues and elearning, intellectual property, security and privacy , social, institutional, and
policy issues, decision support system, remote sensing and GIS precision
farming, sensors, grid, web and communication systems, modeling, pattern
recognition, information retrieval, iltering and extraction, data/text/Web
mining, social media/Web 2.0 technologies, metadata, standards and
cataloging, taxonomy, ontology and the semantic Web, digital preservation,
knowledge management, open source tools and frameworks for agricultural
information, mobile services, human-computer interaction
The following is a list of the Titles of papers and posters presented at the conference...
Data mining/Pattern Recognition/Modeling/Simulation I
Identifying key crop performance traits using data mining
Lognormal vs. Normal and Weibull Distributions for Modeling the Mass and
Size Distributions of Sunflower Seeds and Kernels
Enhancement of Plant Shape Classification Power by Combining SizeIndependent Shape Analyses with Size Factors
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Comparing Multivariate Statistical Techniques and Supervised and
Unsupervised Neural Networks in Identifying of Subspecies and Origins of
Wheat accessions
Classification of Philippine Rice Grains Using Machine Vision and Artificial
Neural Networks
Data mining/Pattern Recognition/Modeling/Simulation II
An Image Change Detection Application for Field Server
A Simple Model to Simulate Sago Palm Growth
A Regional Model of Sustainable Utilization in Marginal Lands by the AHP
Method: A Case Study of Kabude Olia in Kermanshah Province, Iran
A macroeconomic (simultaneous equation) model of the Estonian livestock
sector
The importance of wine components in human health
Data mining/Pattern Recognition/Modeling/Simulation III
A New Method for Modeling the Drying Kinetics of Zataria Multiflora (Avishan
Shirazi) Leaves: Superposition Techniques
Approximating milk yield and milk fat and protein concentration of cows
through the use of mathematical and artificial neural networks models
Climate change effects on the maize growing season
Modeling Cyclic Water Absorption and Desorption Characteristics of Three
Varieties of Wood
PCRANCH: Cow-Calf Herd Simulation System
Data Acquisition/Monitoring/Sensing/Control/Precision Farming I
A communication protocol for collaboration among the measurement and
control nodes in a decentralized autonomous environment control system of
greenhouses
Development of Microcontroller Based Grape Dryer
Automation integration for Taiwan country-chicken farm management using
field server
A Branch Predictor with New Recovery Mechanism in ILP Processors for
Agriculture Information Technology
Numerical Analysis of Microclimate inside Four Single-span Greenhouses
Data Acquisition/Monitoring/Sensing/Control/Precision Farming II
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Geospatial data management and integration of geospatial web services
EarthLookCZ as Czech way to GMES
An internet based tool for land productivity evaluation in plot-level scale: the De-Meter system
Exploitation of Groundwater for Irrigation in Nganjuk District, East Java,
Indonesia
Use of the spatial analogy method to analyse possible land use change in
Hungary
Data Acquisition/Monitoring/Sensing/Control/Precision Farming III
Verification of a Prototype System based on RFID to Recognize Agricultural
Operations Automatically
Construction of Support Tools to Assist an Agent System
Field Server Network Design - a case study
Simple, Rapid and Non-Destructive Determination of Nitrate Nitrogen Content
Using Mid-Infrared Spectroscopic Method
Forestry in situ monitoring and data management
Data Acquisition/Monitoring/Sensing/Control/Precision Farming IV
In situ sensors and Pre-farm system
Application of embedded system in field image monitoring
Wireless Networking and Filed Server in the high Himalayas
Real-time Insect Monitoring System by Using Field Sever
Landslide Early Warning System for Rural Community as an Application of
Sensor Asia
Data Acquisition/Monitoring/Sensing/Control/Precision Farming V
Development of a Near Real-Time Drought Monitoring System in Ubon
Ratchathani, Northeastern Thailand
Slope and Wheel Slip's Variations Based Continuous Cereal Yield Monitoring
on Combine Harvesters Aided by GPS/GIS
A case study of field-workshop
experience
Information Technology for Smart Vineyard
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Maximization of fruit growing activity using precision management
Decision Support System/Farm Management I
Improved Geo-ICT model GramyaVikas for rural development planning
CAPRICORN: A Windows Program for Formulating and Evaluating Rations for
Goats
Applicability of the FAPS-DB system for farm simulation and planning: A Case
study in the Dominican Republic
Applicability of the Noyaku-Navi System for Appropriate Use of Agricultural
Chemical: A Case Study in China
An Environmental Risk Management System for Pesticide Use: Indicator,
System Design and Application
Decision Support System/Farm Management II
Regional Variability in Crop Specific Synoptic Forecasts
PROGIS ICT and SaRAM for know-how transfer and capacity
building within
rural area management (agriculture, forestry, environment)
Information Systems for Pest Control in Protected Agriculture: The Almeria
Experience
DRIS-LT. A set of tools for DRIS application with learning capabilities
Clilmate Analogies and Risk Analysis of Hungarian Viticulture
Decision Support System/Farm Management III
A Smart Mobilized Fertilizing Expert System: 1-2-3 Personalized Fertilizer
Business Intelligence in the Vineyard
A GIS based System For Paddy Field Precision Farming
Prefarm Solution - Mapserver as a Services Support Tool for Farmers to Make
Fast Decision in Crop Production, Precision Farming System
DDISMedia: A Digital Media Library for Pest Diagnosis
Knowledge Management/Text Mining/Ontology/Semantics I
Selection of automatically extracted agricultural terms
Development of Agricultural Vocabulary to Enable Simple and Effective
Searching for Agricultural Information
Development of a Dictionary for the Morpheme Analysis of Agricultural
Information
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URM for agriculture, environmental education, and knowledge sharing
Towards a Harmonization of Metadata Application Profiles for Agricultural
Learning Repositories
Knowledge Management/Text Mining/Ontology/Semantics II
Survey and Modeling Metadata Schema Relationship in Agriculture Domain for
Better Metadata Schema Service
Development of Ontological Information for Agriculture in Thailand
Ontology based Knowledge Map Construction for a Smart Knowledge Service
Lesson Learned for Ontology Construction with Thai Rice Case Study
Engineering an ontology on organic agriculture and agroecology: the case of
the Organic.Edunet project
Knowledge Management/Text Mining/Ontology/Semantics III
More Semantics for Institutional Repositories: AGRIS Add on for DSpace
A Multilingual Semantic Search Assistant to Facilitate Information Retrieval
The AGROVOC Concept Server Workbench:
A Collaborative Tool for Managing Multilingual Knowledge
Thesaurus and Ontology Technology for the Improvement of Agricultural
Information Retrievalal Information Retrieval
Methodical Procedure for Optimization of a Document for Fulltext Search
Engines
Knowledge Management/Text Mining/Ontology/Semantics IV
CyberBrain: Towards the Next Generation Social Intelligence
CIACAP - A Latin-American Community of Knowledge in Agro-Plasticulture
Discussion and Summary for Knowledge Management/Text
Mining/Ontology/Semantics Sessions
Agricultural Information Service and Database I
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Networking for sustainable development: the Papua New Guinea National
Agricultural Information System
Information Seeking and Use among Urban Farmers in Kampala District,
Uganda
Vietnam’s Agricultural Extension and Market Information System
Development of an Online Reference System for Indonesian Rice Varieties
Bibliographic Analysis of Japanese Rice Research
Agricultural Information Service and Database II
NABIC: a system for agricultural biotechnology information analysis
Construction and Application of Bio-Information Database
Computer Data Base of Cashmere Quality
The method and effectiveness of an analysis information service for supporting
farm management decisions
Electronical Data Exchange Between Agricultural Companies and State
Administration in the Czech Republic
Agricultural Information Service and Database III
Developing an information-driven ICT framework for Agriculture
Applying Information Grid for Agricultural Applications
Data Sharing Practice in Agricultural Science Domain
Current Situation and Development of Data Sharing in Agricultural Science in
China
Sharing Agricultural Events Information: When and Where Is That Workshop?
Extension Service/Rural Development/ICT Adoption/Policy I
Capturing and reusing audio knowledge exchanges for agricultural extension–
A review with reference to the Knowledge Help Extension Technology (KHETI)
project in Sironj, Madhya Pradesh, India
E-Governance at Village Level Administration (In Rural India)
Adoption of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for Agriculture:
An Indian case study
The Good Seed Initiative: Improving food security for the poorest households in
Bangladesh through the use of 'Women-to-Women' videos
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Planning of Integrated ICT Centre in a Rural Area for Development of Rural
Communities
Extension Service/Rural Development/ICT Adoption/Policy II
Emerging ICTs and their potential in revitalizing small scale agriculture in Africa
Mapping and Auditing of Agricultural Indigenous Knowledge in Uasin Gishu and
Keiyo Districts in Rift Valley Province, Kenya.
A Present Day Solution to Bridging Farmers Access to the Internet – The
Question and Answer Service (QAS) Voucher System (VS)
From needs assessment to strategic priorities: strengthening agricultural
information and communication management in the Caribbean and Pacific
Innovation and Development of Technical Task Force Information Services in
Rural China
Extension Service/Rural Development/ICT Adoption/Policy III
Use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Among Agri–based
Entrepreneurs in Malaysia
A Simplified e-Agriculture Model Implementation for Developing Countries
ICT Adoption in Rural Community of the Czech Republic
Overview of AgroWeb Networking in the Countries of Central and Eastern
Europe
Supporting Discovery-driven Exploration from a Land Use, Cover and Change
Model
Extension Service/Rural Development/ICT Adoption/Policy IV
Identifying Electronic Information Needs of Agricultural Faculty Members
Analysis of External Drivers for Agriculture
e-Arik: ICTs for Agricultural Extension Services to the Tribal Farmers
Discussion and Summary for Extension Service /Rural Development /ICT
Adoption /Policy Sessions
Library/e-Journal/eLearning I
ICT / E-Learning Readiness Analysis for Farmers in China
Computer Assisted Educational Processes based on Naturent Learning Tools
and their Incorporation into Uniform Resource Management System
Comparing E-learning Outcome with Face-to-face Lecture in Korean
Agricultural High School
Model for E-Learning in Higher Education of Agricultural Extension and
Education in Iran
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ICT in agricultural education, research, and outreach in Uganda
Library/e-Journal/eLearning II
Forestry -an inter-disciplinary subject and its challenges for libraries. Is there a
role for web 2.0 in information management?
Forging and Enhancing Partnerships Using Appropriate ICTs in Agricultural
Information Management: a Case Study of an Academic Library in Lesotho
Building a Bridge between Agricultural University Library and Township Library
for Information Service to Rural Communities
A study of citations made to journals offered through the Access to Global
Online Resources in Agriculture (AGORA) program by authors from eligible
Asian countries
Document Delivery Services of the Japanese Agriculture, Forestry and
Fisheries Research Institutes from 2001 to 2008. – The changing needs and
practices of researchers
Library/e-Journal/eLearning III
Discussion and Summary for Library/e-Journal/eLearning Sessions
Traceability/Food Safety/Marketing I
The impact of product heterogeneity on online consumer behavior
Analyzing the Use of E-Commerce by Agribusiness Firms in the United Arab
Emirates
Information System for Efficient Management and Distribution of Production
Information of Agricultural Products in Korea
Improving the Quality of Certification Standards: The Application of Information
Management Systems in the Food Sector
APPA-GIS. A GIS that models the industrial cluster linked to the horticultural
production in Almeria
Traceability/Food Safety/Marketing II
A Decision-Oriented Market Information System for Wheat and Rice in India
Inter-Organizational Information Systems in Meat Supply Chains
Consumers’ New Demands on Sustainable Traceability
Sustainability – the emerging challenge for information technologies and
systems
Tracking and tracing in food networks
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Traceability/Food Safety/Marketing III
A research concept for an anonymous and automatic farming labour traceability
system using IC Tags
A research concept for the development of a new farming diary system using
automatic tracing of farmers’ labour data
About the development of the registration system of the address in the
＂midori-chouchin＂ store with Google Maps
The study and application of a characteristic Chinese agriculture production
supplies and sales (APSS) information service pattern
Providing Regional IT Advisor Service in Biosafety Information and Education:
Experiences In Asia-Pacific
New Development in Information Systems to Access Agricultural Research
Outputs (See details at Special Session Table)
R4D (Research4Development): The DFID Approach to Information
Dissemination
IFPRI’s Use of Web 2.0 Technologies to Disseminate Research
The Global Forestry Information System (GFIS)
Sharing Research Information Using RSS Feeds
AgNIC’s "Born Digital/Reborn Digital" Repository Initiatives
Sharing of scattering information : a challenge for scientific information at
Agropolis International
Developing the Global ARD Web Ring
Poster Presentations
A Study on the Causal Relationship between Skin Color and Skin Temperature
of Palm
Improvement of Quantitative Evaluation Method for Plant Type of Rice
A Comparison between a new P-type Fourier Descriptors Analysis and a
Conventional Method to Evaluate Rice Plant Type
Identification of Walnut Genotypes Using Image Processing and Neural
Networks Techniques
Evaluation of soybean seed shape by elliptic Fourier descriptors
Development of the three-dimensional structural model of tomato plant for
evaluating the sunlight interception efficiency.
TETYN: An easy to use tool for extracting climatic parameters from Tyndall
data sets
Electronic Identification of Pigs in Thailand
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Estimating damage ratio of rice crop using multi-temporal satellite data
Monitoring the olive cultivation in Shodoshima using Field Server systems
The relationship between wheat yield and the vegetation indices using image
data from aerial photographs in the Kanto region of Japan
Prediction of color appearance change of digital images under different lighting
conditions based on visible spectral data
GIS-based Model for Crop Water Requirement Assessment Using Agrostatistical and Geo-physical Data
Development of a Fieldwork Reminder System to Help Field Management
Supporting system for management of agricultural corporation of sugarcane
farming in Okinawa Islands
Development and User Evaluations of a Farm Planning Support System, FAPSDB, using an Agro-technology Systems Database
Study on Market Information Release of Farm Products in China
AgriShare: An International Document Delivery System for Agricultural
Information
Accessing and Sharing Knowledge Resources for Soil Health Research in
Africa
Investigating the farmers' degree of access and their attitudes toward
information and communication technology in the efficient use of modern ways
of irrigation in Kohgiloye and Boyer Ahmad Province
The Rice Database of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI): Enabling
Electronic Access to the World’s Rice Literature
Application of the Modern Distance Education Technology in Farmers Training
in China
Demonstrating Effectiveness of Propagating ICTs Towards Millennium
Development Goal of Eradicating Extreme Poverty and Hunger among Kenyan
Smallholders in Kenya
Introduction of e-learning management methods in RDA
The Intervening Roles of Bogor Agricultural University’s Library for Food
Crops Production in Indonesia on the Events of Natural Disasters
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Comparing Consumers’ Valuations of Good Agricultural Practice in the Tokyo
Metropolitan Area and Miyagi Prefecture: Applications of the Contingent
Valuation Method
The Green Lantern movement, its strategy, and road-map as a bottoms-up
movement for improving the food self-sufficiency ratio of Japan
An Analysis on Consumer Evaluation of Food Labeling -An Approach Using
Scanner Panel DataModernisation and innovation of palm oil extraction process: The Palm nut, its
by-products and its properties.
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