Table of Contents

 1     Scope          
 2     References
 3     Definitions
        3.1     Terms defined elsewhere       
        3.2     Terms defined in this Recommendation           
 4     Abbreviations and acronyms             
 5     Conventions            
 6     Motivation and impacts of climate change on the agriculture sector
        6.1     Motivation for climate change adaptation       
        6.2     Impacts of climate change on the agriculture sector    
 7     Climate change adaptation measures for the agriculture sector         
        7.1     Need for adaptive crop treatment      
        7.2     Need for management of resources   
        7.3     Need for risk protection / mitigation mechanisms        
 8     The ecosystem of the agriculture sector to be involved in adaptation              
 9     Trends in ICT which are relevant to the agriculture sector    
10     ICT components which are relevant to the agriculture sector            
11     How ICT can help sustain the agricultural sector      
       11.1     ICT to monitor site conditions including land use planning       
       11.2     ICT to promote knowledge sharing and improve management              
       11.3     ICT use in agricultural expert systems              
       11.4     ICT to distribute climate-smart agricultural information to/from farmers          
       11.5     Computer modelling and agricultural forecasting        
       11.6     ICT for risk management       
       11.7     ICT for automatic control of greenhouses      
Appendix I – Remote sensing application applied to agriculture in Africa     
Appendix II – NeGP-A initiatives for geo-spatial visualisation, analysis  and decision making services in India    
Appendix III – ICT in agriculture sector adaptation to climate change – India    
      III.1     Introduction  
     III.2      NICRA              
      III.3     Best practice in R&D and use of big data; strengthening of statistical computing for the national agricultural research system in India    
Appendix IV – Adapting cultivation methods to changing climate conditions in Japan    
       IV.1     Tea use case 
Appendix V – Agricultural expert system in Egypt    
        V.1     Agriculture expert system – Best practices, Egypt         
        V.2     Expert systems implemented at CLAES             
        V.3     Early warning system for epidemic crop diseases         
Appendix VI – Computer modelling of weather data and agricultural forecasting    
       VI.1     Computer modelling 
       VI.2     Crop modelling           
Appendix VII – The central agricultural portal, information services and networks in India    
      VII.1     NeGP-AMMP
      VII.2     The central agricultural portal (CAP) – Enhancing collaborative efforts using ICT and multimedia    
      VII.3     Farmers' portal           
      VII.4     Development of ICT based networks/ infrastructure for agriculture sector        
      VII.5     Mobile phone text and voice based services  
      VII.6     Kisan (Farmer) call centre (KCC)           
Appendix VIII – ICT based risk management applications in India    
     VIII.1     Forecasting  
     VIII.2     Fertilizer quality control application   
     VIII.3     Testing and tracking applications        
     VIII.4     Practices for enabling real time pest management solutions   
Appendix IX – Automatic optimization of environmental conditions in greenhouses - Japan    
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