The role of precision agriculture in food security

Precision agriculture (PA) is the application of information technology to better manage crop and livestock production, heralded as another tool advance food security around world. has potential increase productivity, improve resource allocation for inputs such pesticides, fertilizers, water, feed, labor, provide more stable reduce agricultural production's environmental effect. But PA an approach that can be very different depending on farm characteristics, crops raised, size, management, farms’ access technical support, characteristics operator age education. As a result, adoption been slower less uniform compared with some other innovations. Modern management systems are rarely implemented small low-mechanization farms, which comprise much world's these farms common in areas world least secure. And like technology, its benefits go primarily adopters society whole, but those who do not, or cannot adopt left at relative disadvantage, unfortunately present most farmers Food security's four main principles according Agriculture Organization United Nations availability, access, utilization, stability. aspect unlike predecessor innovations were production related–because it based information, capacity also inform allow adjustment all along supply/demand chain.