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DocumentDrones - A feasible way to revive forests
XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
2022Also available in:
No results found.The role of forests in human survival is inevitable but the forest cover decreases by deforestation increased wildfires and unpredictable climate change. To regrow forest we need a lot of manpower and as per some estimates a human can plant about 1500 trees a day and there are many inaccessible places like mountains, river beds, which is not easy for human planters to go, carry, and plant trees. To combat this we need to find out effective mechanisms to plant a large volume of tree seeds in a stipulated period over a mass area. The feasible solution for this is the usage of drones in reviving forests. Drones are unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), they are like small helicopters which can be flown by a person standing on the ground using a remote.
Drones can fly and drop seeds at places that were difficult to reach earlier. They can map out the territory, carry the seeds, and drop the load at the identified spots, and go back to check the progress at frequent intervals and creating a large-scale green landscape. The built of the drone for planting trees are designed to be durable enough to lift the high quantity of seeds and they mark the areas suitable for dropping the seeds using machine learning technologies and 3D imaging. The seeds used in the drones are highly recommended to use a protected nutrient coating that acts as a safe shell to bury them in the ground, protect them from animals, and be flown away.
Forests still cover about 30 percent of the world’s land area, but they are disappearing at an alarming rate. About 17 percent of the Amazonian rainforest has been destroyed over the past 50 years, and losses recently have been on the rise. Given the ferocity of the devastation, we need hundreds of companies, individuals, and groups to come forward, leverage the technology, take these aerial vehicles to the sky and make the planet green again. Keywords: Adaptive and integrated management, Biodiversity conservation, Climate change, Sustainable forest management ID: 3616686 -
MeetingRound Table on Imagining Future Healthy and Inclusive Food Systems in Asia and the Pacific 2018Asia and the Pacific is experiencing major demographic shifts and rapid urbanization. E-agriculture technologies (remote sensing, drones, sensors) are emerging, with potentially profound implications for the entire food system and management of the natural resource base. Structural transformation of the economy has also changed the nature of the food security problem. Earlier, many governments thought that producing more staple food was sufficient to improve food security. However, today’s economy, increasingly based on human capital and less on physical strength, requires that policies and programmes promote healthy diets for healthy people. This need for improved nutrition will require shifts in agricultural production and trade patterns. Solving the malnutrition problem in urban areas will also require different solutions than in rural areas, due to the difference in urban and rural food environments. In line with the structural transformation of the economy, farm households also increasingly rely on non-farm income to support their livelihoods and risk management strategies, which has implications for the uptake of new technologies. The demographic shifts, urbanization and structural changes in the economy, coupled with climate change, have made the food security and nutrition problem more complex than in the past. Solutions require input from different stakeholders, both public and private, as well as a range of government ministries, including health, finance, education, environment, trade and social welfare in addition to agriculture. This round table session will encourage delegates to exchange views on these challenges and share suggestions for creating healthy food systems that promote good nutrition and accelerate poverty reduction through inclusive and sustainable agricultural development.
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Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetDigital Innovation Accelerator Programme
Transforming high-potential ideas into large-scale digital services to empower rural farmers and democratize food and agriculture solutions
2019Also available in:
No results found.Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and digital innovation are key catalysts for sustainable development and socioeconomic growth in developing countries. However, even though ICT innovations are being rapidly adopted globally, their vital contribution to lifting people out of extreme poverty and hunger, as well further promoting sustainable agriculture, has yet to be realized. FAO’s Digital Innovation Accelerator Programme aims to play a vital role in ensuring that digital innovation and new technologies reach and better serve rural farmers and small-scale producers, who are often among the poorest in society. The programme will seed-fund, pilot and scale up innovative ICT solutions with high potential for impact on food and agriculture, transforming digital solutions and services into global public goods, making them accessible to smallholders. The programme operates a tiered financing model (idea, pilot, scale-up) to identify innovations and ensure responsible risk management: (1) Idea: FAO launches open innovation challenges to source local and global high-potential ideas; (2) Pilot: FAO provides the most promising innovations with seed money for small-scale field pilots; and (3) Scale-up: FAO provides further funds for upscaling innovations with strong evidence of success. The programme will also contribute to FAO’s current Digital Services Portfolio and ongoing work vetting frontier technologies, such as blockchain, artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things. FAO’s Digital Services Portfolio currently includes innovative digital solutions for farmers to detect plant pests and diseases, provide market prices and weather forecasts linked to agro-advisory services, and real-time information on animal disease control and nutritious foods.
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