Silas Barasa

Agri-Tech Projects and Rural-Urban Fringe Agriculture in Kenya

Agri-tech Projects, Rural-Urban Fringe, Agriculture Technology, "Agriculture 4.0", smart Agriculture and ICT

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Agri-tech is a fourth revolution (Farming 4.0) of agriculture with amalgamation of Information Communication Technology (ICT) in the conventional agriculture practice. The technologies clout on innovations to fix low food productivity in the rural-urban fringe. Food insecurity is overriding setback in the urban population in Kenya. The food prices are expected to soar in line with high population pressure in the urban stratum in Kenya. In similar veins, the rural-urban fringe land mass in Kenya is on a dwindling lane due to competition from urbanization projects such as housing and industrialization. The negative impends includes but not limited to urbanization, poor land management, prolific climate change, resource depletion, increased carbon footprint, post-harvest loses, food insecurity, rural-urban poverty and destruction of bio-diversity. At the present time, technology revolutions are projected to gradient up agriculture to the subsequent neck and neck. The Agri-tech projects leverage on smart farming innovations through use of; drone & satellite, Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles,Robots,Big data analytics, Biotechnology&Machine learning.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 64
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm x 4mm
• Gewicht: 113g
• ISBN-13: 9786206183891
• ISBN-10: 6206183890
• Artikelnr.: 68532746

Autorenporträt

Herr Barasa ist Akademiker im Bereich der Landwirtschaft und verfügt über mehr als 8 Jahre Erfahrung in der landwirtschaftlichen Beratung. Er hat einen Master-Abschluss in Projektmanagement und einen Bachelor-Abschluss in Landwirtschaft. Er hat über 4 Jahre Erfahrung im Banken- und Finanzsektor bei der Kreditvergabe an KMU.