Code: 691249
RUC-APS: Enhancing and implementing Knowledge based ICT solutions within high Risk and Uncertain Conditions for Agriculture Production Systems
Duration: Oct 2016 - Apr 2022Project Abstract
Increasingly challenging global and environmental requirements have resulted in agricultural systems coming under increasing pressure to enhance their resilience capabilities in order to respond to the abrupt changes in resource quality, quantity and availability, especially during unexpected environmental circumstances, such as uncertain weather, pests and diseases, volatile market conditions and commodity prices. Therefore, integrated solutions are necessary to support the whole food agricultural life-cycle value chain. Solutions necessarily must consider the products’ cycle, as well as each of the value chain stages. Thus, managing risks and the uncertain availability of information will lead farmers to take advantage of these managerial, technical and social based-solutions. This implies the need for innovative technology-based knowledge management system to capture the agricultural information, at a variety of regional locations, in terms of collecting, storing, processing, and disseminating information about uncertain environmental conditions that affect agricultural decision-making production systems. Hence, from the genetic design of the seed, till their planting and harvest processes, RUCAPS provides knowledge of the full agricultural life-cycle based-decision making process to realise the key impacts of every stage of the agriculture-related processes. Therefore, RUCAPS implies the development of a high impact research project in order to integrate real-life based agriculture requirements, alternative land management scenarios, unexpected weather and environmental conditions as well as supporting innovation in the development of agriculture production systems, operations, logistics and supply chain management and the impact of these systems and processes over the end-users and customers. This is to be conceived through the integration of standard and customised solutions for facilitating the collaborative engagement within the agriculture value chain.
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Project Details
Director
Jorge Hernandez
Funding Agency
Programa H2020, Comisión Europea
Funding Amount
EUR 1.332.000
Responsible Group
Alejandro Fernandez, Hervé Panetto, Shaofeng Liu, Pascale Zaraté, Rina Iannacone, Juanjo Rico, Janusz Kacprzyk, Cecile Guyon, Nicola Calabrese, Mareva Alemany, Raquel Almarcha, Juan Pablo Manzur
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Involved lab members (14)
Matías Urbieta
InvestigadorAlejandro Fernandez
InvestigadorJuan Cruz Gardey
InvestigadorGB
Gabriela Bosetti
Julián Grigera
InvestigadorAlejandra Lliteras
InvestigadorDiego Torres
InvestigadorJorge Hernández Hormazabal
Investigador externoCecilia Challiol
InvestigadorLeandro Antonelli
InvestigadorSergio Firmenich
InvestigadorClaudia Pons
InvestigadorAlejandra Garrido
InvestigadorAndrés Rodríguez
InvestigadorResearch Areas
#smart agriculture
#technology and society