Category: Agriculture

In this blog, we discuss cognitive computing and other technologies with a focus on supply chain management and innovation. Other topics of discussion include digital enterprise transformation, marketing, the Internet of Things, and smart cities. Our goal is to advance the public discussion about how cognitive computing and other advanced technologies affect the world in which we live.

Bradd C. Hayes is the active editor of this blog.

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Urban Farmers

In a recent post entitled New Approach to Food Security Applauded, I discussed how leaders from the G8 countries are supporting a new approach to agriculture aimed at strengthening local food production

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Food Crisis and Recession

In 2007 and the beginning of 2008 (before the global recession began grabbing all of the headlines), the global crisis most discussed involved a shortage of food and the resulting high food

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Buying the Farm

In my post Food and Water Shortages in the Middle East, I cited an article that reported “several oil-rich nations, including Saudi Arabia, have started searching for farmland in fertile but politically

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Fine African Coffee

When one hears the term “sub-Saharan Africa,” the first things that normally jump into one’s mind are poverty, corruption, and conflict. Probably the last thing that one thinks about is upscale food

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Famine in the Horn of Africa

The Horn of Africa has known its share of tragedies (including the long-running civil conflict in Somalia and war between Ethiopia and Eritrea). Those tragedies, however, are manmade and preventable. They begin

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Harvesting Sustainable Development

My colleague Tom Barnett directed my attention to an interesting article through his Weblog entitled Another example of P2P “UDA.” The article discusses how wheat from America’s heartland helps foster development in

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Globalizing Poor Farmers

Two years ago I wrote a post focused on the announcement that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation had teamed with the Rockefeller Foundation to tackle food security in Africa. Their plan

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The Collapse of the Doha Round

Today’s papers are carrying stories about what appears to be the final collapse of the so-called Doha Round of trade negotiations [“Trade Talks Crumble in Feud Over Farm Aid,” by Anthony Faiola

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Revolution or Ruse in Rice Production?

Science involves the search for understanding and truth. It’s about generating hypotheses and then testing them to either prove or disprove them. Although we are used to seeing competing theories debated, we

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