The increasing availability of high-resolution satellite data and frontier advances in cloud computing enable innovative solutions that enhance decision-making in farming systems to tackle food insecurity, increase productivity and profitability for farmers, while strengthening their resilience to climate change and support resource management for better environmental sustainability.

This session at ICTforAg 2022 co-created by NASA and GSMA explored the new opportunities made possible by technologies that capture, process and interpret data from a range of sources.

Speakers:

• Dr.Catherine Lilian Nakalembe, Associate Research Professor, University of Maryland

• Faisal Qamer, Group Lead , Food Security and Climate Services, ICIMOD

• Shraddhanand Shukla, Associate Researcher, University of California, Santa Barbara

• Lilian Wangui Ndungu, Thematic Lead for Agriculture & Food Security, RCMRD/Servir E&SA

• Dr. Aparna Ravindra Phalke, Research Scientist and Agriculture & Water lead, NASA SERVIR Marshall Space Flight Center

• Filoteo Gómez-Martínez, SERVIR Global Fellow, SERVIR Global

• Susantha Jayasinghe, Thematic Lead, Agriculture and Food Security, Asian Disaster Preparedness Center

• Pete Epanchin, Senior Resilience and Climate Adaptation Advisor, USAID