Big Data and The Future of Agriculture Sonny Ramaswamy Interstellar, The Movie Kepler Habitable Zone Mission • "The world doesn’t need any more engineers. We didn’t run out of planes and television sets… we ran out of food.” • Starring: Mahew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway Nutrional Security An ExistenEal Threat Malthusian Necessies of Life Food, Shelter, Fiber, Fuel > 9 billion Populaon Climate Extreme Weather Hunger Land & Water Resources Changing Incomes & Diet Health Funding Poverty An-Science Pipeline An-Intellectualism hp://rsd.gsfc.nasa.gov/goes/pub/goes/050828.katrina.gif Path Forward • Transformave discoveries – Internet of Agricultural Things – Big Data • 21st Century Extension • Farming systems • Educaon • Policies, regulaon, markeng • Human dimensions • Communicaons #InternetOfAgThings 21st Century Farm hp://nyurl.com/nmcub2m Supply Chain • On Farm Production • Retailers • Soil Health, Water, Nutrients • Inventory • Pests/Control • Access • Energy • Smart Refrigerators • Traceability and Tracking • Food Safety • Supply Chain Management • Ripeness • Processing • Shrink Wrap • Inspection • Waste • Transportation • Smart Services • Storage • Etc. Food Waste and Food Loss Ø Double food producon in 40 years Ø Cut loss/waste by half? Ø Impact climate change Adapted from Bonn2011 Nexus Conference: http://www.water-energy-food.org/en/news/view__255/understanding-the-nexus.html http://phys.org/news/2014-06-date-contributes-food.html Precision Foods • Individual genome, epigenome, microbiome • Plant/animal genome, epigenome, microbiome • Wearable sensors – FitBit, Apple Watch – Athos, Hexoskin, Gymi – Google contact lens • Food analysis • Lifestyle • Behavior #BigData Big Data: Milieu • Analytics • Predictive Modeling • Informatics • Data Visualization • Evidence-Based Tools • Decision Analytics • Meta-Analysis and Synthesis • Embedded Systems • Complex Systems • Machine Learning • Computational Sciences • Multidimensional Data • Data Engineering • Network Science • Data Mining • Sensor Networks • Cloud Computing • Spatial Analytics • Implementation and Evaluation • Bandwidth • Data Security and Cybersecurity • Cyberphysical Systems Big Data: Opportunies Cochrane Collaboraon – hp://www.cochrane.org Transparent, Collaborave, Parcipatory Big Data: Opportunies Open Data is a powerful, evidence-based tool for long- term sustainable development by improving economic opportunies for farmers and health of consumers. Open access to research, meta- analysis, and open publicaon of data are vital resources for nutrional security. Big Data: Challenges • Ownership – Open Ag Technology Systems • Decision Support Tools • Cost • Bandwith • Quality • Curation • Disambiguation • Connectivity • Cybersecurity • Storage hp://www.lsi.com/PublishingImages/LSI_blog_Bigdata_V1.jpg USDA AcviEes USDA Open Data Iniave ● Implementaon of OMB 13-13 ● Implementaon of OSTP direcves – Publicaon of Scholarly Arcles: PubAg – Release of Scienfic Data: Ag Data Commons Supporng Global Open Data Acon ● Open Data Policy ● Access to USDA Data ● Collaboraon and Cooperaon ● Minimizing Duplicaon GODAN Framework Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrion • Promotes global efforts for unrestricted availability, accessibility, and usability of agriculture and nutrion data • Encourages collaboraon and cooperaon among exisng agriculture and open data efforts to avoid duplicaon • Seeks to bring together stakeholders to solve long-standing global problems GODAN Framework Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrion A few of the successes in just over a year • 120+ partners • 3rd Internaonal Open Data Conference • Publicaon with 14 cases studies • Planning for Africa and Global conferences Nutrional Security We are drowning in informaon, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right informaon at the right me, think crically about it, and make important choices wisely. E. O. Wilson, Entomologist, Author, Pulitzer Prize Winner hp://www.cnmeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/ data-illustraon-compung-cover-370x229-300x185.jpg Humans Maer .