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Digital Farming: The MacDonalds meet the Jetsons

Enterra Insights

. “The world talks a lot about the digital revolution,” write World Bank analysts Heinz Strubenhoff ( @HStrubenhoff ) and Roy Parizat, “but few connect it to the coming agriculture revolution, especially in Africa. The first concern is the global population which is predicted to increase to 11.2 billion people.

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Technology Can Help Feed the World, Part 1

Enterra Insights

In the next 35 years, experts predict that we’ll need to double agricultural production to keep pace with population growth, changing diets and increasing demand. And farmers will have to meet this challenge in the face of a changing climate with increasingly extreme weather patterns.”[1] ”[4]. ”[5]. Footnotes. [1]

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Keeping It Local: How Shorter Supply Chains Impact Supply Chain Planning

ToolsGroup

The Economist says that more companies are sourcing with proximity to their major markets – for instance servicing the EU from Eastern Europe and Northern Africa or the US from Mexico. Technologies such as machine learning and demand analytics can favor shorter, smarter and more demand-driven supply chains.

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Technology Can Help Feed the World, Part 2

Enterra Insights

The editorial team at Analytics Insight notes, “The technological revolution that is currently happening in the agricultural sector became possible, among other things, due to big data. ”[3] The analytics are most likely to be embedded in some type of cognitive technology (i.e., ’s more promising efforts. revolution.

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Accelerate Digitisation in the Supply Chain – Leveraging a Data-driven Approach to Optimisation – LogiSYM August 2020

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

The acquisition was key to opening doors to expansion in Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. Using a data-driven approach, predictive analytics are generated that can encourage agents or retailers to increase their sales performance through gamification, creating a mutually beneficial arrangement.

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Agriculture, Logistics, and Advance Technologies

Enterra Insights

A couple of years ago, Clarisse Magnin wrote, “By taking advantage of big data and advanced analytics at every link in the value chain from field to fork, food companies can harness digital’s enormous potential for sustainable value creation. connected by the IoT to advanced analytics platforms (aka cognitive computers).

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The Digital Path to Purchase becomes a Digital High Street

Enterra Insights

”[2] Mark Finch, Vice President of Sales for Europe, Middle East, and Africa at goMoxie, goes even further asserting retailers need to think digital to stay in business. To meet these demands, retailers rethinking their marketing strategies to become data-centric to understand and target customers in a personalized fashion effectively.”