Digital opportunities for better agricultural policies

Recent digital innovations provide opportunities to deliver better policies for the agriculture sector by helping to overcome information gaps and asymmetries, lower policy-related transaction costs, and enable people with different preferences and incentives to work better together. Drawing on ten...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (author)
Autor Corporativo: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, author, issuing body (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Paris, France : Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development [2019]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgements
  • Executive Summary
  • Chapter 1. Overview of findings and recommendations
  • 1.1. How can governments best use digital technologies to improve agri-environmental policies?
  • 1.1.1. Making use of digital technologies in policy design and implementation
  • 1.1.2. Using digital technologies can improve monitoring and compliance for agri-environmental and agricultural policies and programmes
  • 1.2. Governments should champion efforts to improve access to agricultural data 1.3. Data infrastructures and data governance for agriculture: Potential roles for government
  • 1.3.1. Governments can play an active role in future development of digital tools for policy and for agriculture more broadly
  • Notes
  • Part I. What's new? Digital technologies and agriculture
  • Part I. What's new? Digital technologies and agriculture
  • Chapter 2. Digital innovations and the growing importance of agricultural data
  • 2.1. Overview of recent and ongoing digital innovations for agriculture and food 2.1.1. Global and local: Recent advances in remote sensing and edge-of-field monitoring
  • 2.1.2. Automating and accelerating analysis: The new capacity to harvest, combine and analyse data in agriculture and food
  • 2.1.3. Advances in encryption, data protection and data sharing technologies, and institutions for data sharing
  • 2.1.4. The drivers of digitalisation of the agriculture and food sectors
  • On-farm drivers for digitalisation of agriculture
  • Off-farm drivers for digitalisation of agriculture
  • 2.1.5. Adoption may be hampered by lack of skills
  • but what and whose skills?
  • Notes Online surveys, aerial photography and satellite data key digital sources of data for agri-environmental policies, but traditional methods are still important
  • Most organisations have a good awareness of the benefits of digital technologies, but also see new risks
  • Most organisations have adopted digital strategies and data policies, and have appointed a Chief Information Officer
  • 3.2.2. Improving inputs into agri-environmental policy-making
  • 3.2.3. Connecting administrators with programme participants (farmers) and the general public.