Digital Agriculture Transforming Farmers’ Lives | Michael Robertson | TEDxUWA

Digital technologies have enormous power to change the way farmers will grow food in the future. In Africa, where farmers struggle in a harsh environment to grow crops with irrigation as efficiently as possible, sensors to measure soil moisture are being used to assist with farm decisions. A simple digital device is helping to grow more food with less water, overcome community conflicts over water, and creating jobs for rural poor. Michael is the Deputy and Science Director of CSIRO Agriculture & Food. He grew up in New Zealand where he studied agricultural science, followed by a PhD at The University of Queensland - UQ focusing on the tropical grain crop, sorghum. Michael’s research background is in crop agronomy and simulation modelling where his work has aimed to analyse and understand broad-acre farming systems to inform better management regimes. He has worked on agricultural systems in the tropics, subtropics and temperate zone on a wide range of crops and pastures.

[aishaibrahimabbas]

Thank you to the CSIRO team for all you do

[waqasrazzaq]

Excellent story of Lucy a farmer in Africa who uses water very efficiently to grow crops. To grow 1k calori one liter of water is needed.

[BandohAlex]

I really enjoyed it.
I was directed here when I was reading some part of my agriconnect program

[tamiriraishenyevera]

Had no interest in Farming but this really got to Thank you!

[adebolamostfavoured]

An amazing technology that would be quite very useful and necessary in the Sahel region.

[narasi_vanilla]

hi, can i have the speaker contact? im a farmer from indonesia. those tools shown will be very useful to me.

[marcoalanis]

You should’ve put a link to buy chamaleon

[vitalchance]

"muesli", ok. I have been eating that for awhile.. I just refereed to it as "real cereal"..