WEBINAR SERIES – Big data & COVID-19: Digital extension & advisories (Eps. 3)
Channel: CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture
Date: 20/08/2020

The third episode of our Discussion Series: Big data solutions to COVID-19 & food security, brought together four panelists to discuss tools for agile adaptation regarding digital extension and agricultural advisories.

PANELISTS:
♦ Ram Dhulipala, Digital Agriculture Theme Leader, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)
♦ Madina Amin Hussein, Founder and CEO, Global Nature Conservation
♦ Jonathan Steinke, Research Fellow, Alliance of Bioversity  and CIAT
♦ Shreya Agarwal, Director of Strategy, Digital Green

MODERATOR: Marianne McDade, Head of Communications, CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture

FULL DESCRIPTION:

In times of crisis, big data tools can help us make sense of and respond to crises with agility and accuracy.

From using satellite remote sensing to monitor crop harvests to leveraging social media data to track population dynamics that may influence the spread of disease, big data tools and approaches have been instrumental in sensing and responding to the pandemic’s impacts on global food security and supply chains.

As we begin recovering and (re)building resilient food systems, we must leverage the power of big data to examine concepts of resilience and inform our understanding of how digital dynamism enables adaptive food systems in the face of shocks, and, in the longer term, addresses systemic issues in agriculture that have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 crisis.

The third panel, held 14 July, brought together four panelists to discuss tools for agile adaptation regarding digital extension and agricultural advisories.