Digital agriculture to design sustainable agricultural systems

April 15, 2020 - Bruno Basso and John Antle

The article "Digital agriculture to design sustainable agricultural systems" appears in Comment section of the 16 April 2020 issue of Nature Sustainability:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-020-0510-0

News coverage:

Welcome To The New World Of Digital Agriculture
by Jennifer Kite-Powell in Forbes

An ecosystem scientist and an agricultural economist have outlined how agriculture needs to develop a more sustainable land management system through the integration of big data into crop and farmland usage, which they are calling digital agriculture. 

In a paper released in Nature Sustainability in April 2020, Michigan State University professor Bruno Basso, a professor in the College of Natural Science at Michigan State University, and John Antle, professor of Applied Economics at Oregon State University, posit that digital agriculture can pave the road to agricultural sustainability.

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DIGITAL AGRICULTURE PAVES THE ROAD TO AGRICULTURAL SUSTAINABILITY

in MSU Today 

In a study published in Nature Sustainability, an ecosystem scientist and an agricultural economist outline how to develop a more sustainable land management system through data collection and stakeholder buy-in.

Bruno Basso, professor in the College of Natural Science at Michigan State University, and John Antle, professor of Applied Economics at Oregon State University, believe the path begins with digital agriculture — or, the integration of big data into crop and farmland usage.

Digital agriculture, Basso says, is where agriculture, science, policy and education intersect. Putting that data to use requires an effective balancing of competing economic and social interests while minimizing trade-offs.

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