GIFT IS WORKING TO ADVANCE GLOBAL SMART FARMING
WITH TODAY'S AMAZING TECHNOLOGY, WE Can NOW BE SMARTER THAN EVER AT MakING a Difference!
GIFT is helping the "Church for the Poor" provide hunger relief, poverty alleviation and global development via innovations in smart farming, starting with optimizing Orange Flesh Sweet Potatoes and their Edible Leaves.
GIFT has partnered with the Poznan Supercomputing & Networking Center, an organization who has helped build a collaborative farm optimization and solidarity portal.
This technology will enable real time weather, soil and crop monitoring in an effort to maximize sweet potato yields. Our participation with Poznan is one example of how GIFT can help leverage the latest technology -- known as the Internet of Things (IOT) -- to support our partner organizations in creating an independent source of income.
This includes working to establish the use of supercomputing decision support, Drone-as-a-Service, the Internet of Things, solar-powered irrigation, and control for improved smallholder farming yields, efficacy, revenue, profitability and sustainability.
This technology could go a long way toward increasing the yields, nutritional provisions and biofeedstock that's available through the Orange Flesh Sweet Potato and its Edible Leaves dual crop. Already producing the most amount of calories per acre of any crop, tests have shown the yield could increase about 7-fold, from 12.5 Tons/HA to as much as 85 Tons/HA --- plus provide crop damage and food processing wastes to provide much-needed, second-generation biofeedstock (e.g., not having to take food to make fuels or plastics like corn ethanol does). Such high yields of this crop could enable reduction of fossil fuel through OFSP's use in bioplastics, bioethanol and biohydrogen.
GIFT wants to help Churches, their communities and ministries become as smart as possible in transforming hearts, lives and communities.
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ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT
The efficacy of sweet potatoes' food supply in addition to second-generation biomass feedstock can help answer the Pope's recent call to address hunger and water as a human right. Although agriculture consumes 70% of the world's water, OFSP crops require significantly less water than the average commercial crop and can help reduce agriculture's impact on the global water supply. In addition, OFSP starch is a very productive and versatile biomaterial for an array of bioplastics, and can offer a green alternative to fossil fuel-derived plastics. Best of all, the cultivation of the sweet potato and its leaves will create robust local economic development and new jobs.
CLOSING THE DIGITAL DIVIDE
Smart phones, connected devices, online marketplaces, and social media have changed the way we interact with each other, shop, and navigate the world.
While technology has made us more connected overall, it has also placed those who don’t have access to internet connectivity at a significant disadvantage as our world becomes more reliant on digital commerce and communication. This is called the "digital divide", where communities, businesses, schools and families in areas without access to technology are unable to keep up in the modern economic environment. GIFT's Global Smart Farming Initiative helps to close this gap by providing farmers and their communities with dynamic training and smart-farming technology to expand and propel their business into the modern age.
MITIGATING THE IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE
Leading scientists predict climate change will have the most significant and detrimental impact on small-shareholder farmers around the globe. By collecting and leveraging data curated by GIFT, farmers can make informed decisions in the face of increasing droughts and natural disasters.
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