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    This document discusses how technology can help enable regenerative agriculture practices to achieve sustainability and net zero emissions goals. It outlines several barriers to transitioning to regenerative agriculture like risk, lack of knowledge, data issues, and lack of interoperability. The document then provides examples of several technologies being developed to help overcome these barriers, like precision sensors and automation to precisely manage inputs, autonomous weed control, and biodiversity monitoring. It argues that technology can help provide objective data, insights, and alternative solutions to support farmers' decision making. Finally, it suggests that achieving net zero requires considering sustainability holistically and ensuring data platforms work together to support farmers and share the costs and benefits of transition across the supply chain.

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    This document discusses how technology can help enable regenerative agriculture practices to achieve sustainability and net zero emissions goals. It outlines several barriers to transitioning to regenerative agriculture like risk, lack of knowledge, data issues, and lack of interoperability. The document then provides examples of several technologies being developed to help overcome these barriers, like precision sensors and automation to precisely manage inputs, autonomous weed control, and biodiversity monitoring. It argues that technology can help provide objective data, insights, and alternative solutions to support farmers' decision making. Finally, it suggests that achieving net zero requires considering sustainability holistically and ensuring data platforms work together to support farmers and share the costs and benefits of transition across the supply chain.

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    Rebecca Lewis - Agri-EPI Centre - EIT Food Presentation

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    This document discusses how technology can help enable regenerative agriculture practices to achieve sustainability and net zero emissions goals. It outlines several barriers to transitioning to regenerative agriculture like risk, lack of knowledge, data issues, and lack of interoperability. The document then provides examples of several technologies being developed to help overcome these barriers, like precision sensors and automation to precisely manage inputs, autonomous weed control, and biodiversity monitoring. It argues that technology can help provide objective data, insights, and alternative solutions to support farmers' decision making. Finally, it suggests that achieving net zero requires considering sustainability holistically and ensuring data platforms work together to support farmers and share the costs and benefits of transition across the supply chain.

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    Technology

    enabling
    regenerative
    agriculture
    Rebecca Lewis
    Head of New Business &
    Proposals
    Engineering Precision
    Innovation

    • Observing, measuring and responding to variability


    • Focus on business and environment sustainability
    • Managing inputs precisely
    • Optimising outputs
    • Enabling more precise decision making – supporting
    farmers
    • Remote sensing and control
    • Robotics and Autonomous Systems
    Our ecosystem
    Innovations from idea to reality
    How can
    regenerative
    agriculture help us
    achieve net zero
    targets?
    What IS
    regenerative
    farming?
    What are the barriers?
    • Risk and uncertainty: cost, investment, productivity

    • Trust: will it work for me? Who to believe?


    Knowledge and information; demo, test & trial

    • Data: no common definition of sustainability; how to


    collect robust data; time/cost; data sharing across
    platforms and systems

    • Interoperability : Shared open Standards and


    Definitions
    How can technology help
    transition to regenerative
    agriculture?
    • Collect data objectively, robustly and higher resolution than traditional
    methods
    • Bring together multiple sources to analyse data and support better and
    faster decisions in complex environments
    • Early diagnosis and intervention
    • Overcome physical and infrastructure barriers
    • Provide alternative solutions to problems
    • Support people
    • Work in tandem with both modern and traditional farming practices
    Ultra-low emissions
    sheep

    • Identifying low methane outliers within a


    flock to develop a breeding programme
    • Project identified a genetic link to methane
    emissions in sheep
    Biodiversity Monitoring
    24/7

    • A suite of technologies to automate


    monitoring of wildflowers, pollinators and
    birds
    • Augment the data collected by the ecologist
    • Recommend actions to enhance biodiversity
    in place
    Vineyard 4.0: Digital
    Infrastructure

    • Open mapping definition to enable multiple


    agri-tech devices to share and overlay data
    (robotics, drones, conventional and manual
    data collection)
    • Enabling faster deployment, richer datasets
    and deeper insights for enhanced decision
    making
    • Transferable from vineyard to other
    structured farming environments
    LightWeeder
    • Concentrated Light Autonomous Weeding
    and Scouting (CLAWS)
    • Captures images of crop, counts weeds and
    crop seedlings
    • Non chemical weed control
    • Operates day/night
    How can regenerative agriculture help us
    to achieve net zero targets?

    • By not considering net zero in isolation of other aspects of environmental, social and
    financial sustainability
    • By celebrating the diversity of farming systems, not pitching one against another
    • By using technology to support skills of farmers and advisors
    • By developing a common definition of sustainability which can be measured
    • By ensuring data platforms and technologies work together and not in siloes
    • By sharing both the value and the cost of transition across supply chains and society
    Thank you
    E: rebecca.lewis@agri-
    epicentre.com
    W: agri-epicentre.com
    P: 0131 239 7100

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