There is more to Cuba than fabulous cigars, 1950s cars, cheap rum, and music so infectious that even a Norwegian bachelor farmer will get up and dance to it. It also happens to be a showcase for policy transformation from industrialized agriculture to a greener, sustainable agriculture. Cuba has transformed its agriculture from a low productivity, highly subsidized, high input system to one tha...

• precision agriculture (Moran et al., 1997; Gebbers and Adamchuk, 2010; Lee et al., 2010), • alerting and forecasting systems (Doraiswamy et al., 2003; Rembold et al., 2013), • sustainable resource protection (Baret et al., 2007), • ecological farming and sustainable intensification (Garnett et al., 2013), • traceability of products (Opara, 2003), • policy steering (Palm et al., 2014), • index...

This paper gives an outline of key technologies necessary for science-based agriculture. In order to design future agriculture, present agriculture should be redesigned based on the context of smart agriculture that indicates the overall form of agriculture including a social system while the present precision agriculture shows a technical form of agriculture only. Wireless Sensor Network (WSN)...

An important factor in sustainable agriculture and economic management is to calculate areas under different crops that the inputs of agriculture connect to this topic. Planning of agricultural mechanization, fertilizer and pesticide requirements, pests and diseases control, estimates of agricultural production, income and tax and financial planning, all linked to the cultivated areas and estim...

Soil degradation is one of the most topical environmental threats. A number processes causing soil degradation, specifically erosion, compaction, salinization, pollution, and loss both organic matter biodiversity, are also strictly connected to agricultural activity its intensification. The development adoption sustainable agronomic practices able preserve enhance physical, chemical, biological...