Piet van Asten Keywords productivity carbon footprint agricultural and environmental sciences soil science crop production farming systems sustainable development rdfs tg food security rural development agricultural value chains Read more about Piet van Asten Transforming agriculture to (re-)build, rather than exhaust, livelihoods and nature requires knowledge, resources and motivation from farmers. Piet focuses on innovating the sustainability of production systems at Olam Food Ingredients (ofi) and is based in Singapore. In early 2017, he joined Olam to jointly develop, adapt and apply technologies, approaches and services that improve the productivity, profitability, and carbon footprint of Olam's coffee plantations as well as its (smallholder) supply landscape.
Increasing Land and Water Productivity at Community-Level Using Remote Sensing Read more about Increasing Land and Water Productivity at Community-Level Using Remote Sensing This presentation introduces the Surface Energy Balance Algorithm for Land (SEBAL) as a remote-sensing model for evapotranspiration. Through SEBAL, crop production and irrigation information can be sent to farmers through the use of technology. To be able to fully utilize this model, however, would require the establishment of public-private partnerships.