https://bigideas.ucdavis.edu/sustaina... -- Revolutionizing sustainable agriculture technology with Smart Farming, a UC Davis Big Idea.

Ensuring people everywhere have access to safe and nutritious food while sustaining our planet is one of humanity’s greatest challenges. It is predicted that by 2050 the world population will have grown by more than 2 billion. Smart Farm technology is a key solution to the sustainable future of food and farming. This agriculture movement includes vertical farming, innovative food storage methods, and precision monitoring to improve real-time care for livestock and plants. Robotics and automated machinery improve the working conditions for people, maximize yields and save precious resources like water and soil.

As the nation’s top-ranked agricultural university, UC Davis is addressing this challenge. Smart Farm is our vision to spearhead a new era of agriculture — a showcase of modern farming in harmony with nature and people. In collaboration with industry and individual donors, Smart Farm will advance solutions to rapidly interpret plant and animal responses to their environment, accelerate crop yields, enhance animal welfare, turn Big Data into useful applications, optimize nutrient and water-use efficiency and more. Smart Farm will do all of this while minimizing agriculture’s environmental footprint and increasing productivity with organic food and farming practices. Every step of the way, students in the new Agricultural Technology program — from undergraduates to Ph.D. candidates to extension certificate participants — will gain hands-on experience, preparing them to lead the industry forward.

Smart Farm will include a world-class Agricultural Innovation Hub—a state-of-the-art facility that will fully leverage the depth and breadth of interdisciplinary expertise unique to UC Davis. This hub will accelerate solutions in collaboration with industry partners, peer institutions and thought leaders from around the world.

Help find global solutions for sustainable food and farming: https://give.ucdavis.edu/ABAE/324158