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SPARKLE - Entrepreneurship for Sustainable Precision Agriculture (SPA) is a course aiming to increase 'agripreneurship' among students, entrepreneurs and academics, enhancing knowledge and skills on technologies, innovations, entrepreneurial thinking and problem-solving skills into the farming sector. It also aims to transform the agricultural sector into a SPA-oriented system that could build an innovative ecosystem of agripreuners and agritechnicians around agriculture and entrepreneurship. The course is divided into four areas (SPA Overview, Technologies, Social and economic aspects and entrepreneurship in agriculture), 12 lessons and 55 topics leads students on a path for deepening the knowledge in a comprehensive system where technologies are a piece of the whole structure.

Sustainable Precision Agriculture --- Smart Farming --- Lean Management --- Entrepreneurship in Agriculture

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Large-scale agribusinesses are among the largest and oldest oligopoly corporations in the world, now constituting a form of big tech alongside companies like Google and Facebook. The Immaculate Conception of Data explores the secretive legal agreements surrounding agricultural big data to trace how it is used and with what consequences.

Agriculture --- Data processing. --- Economic aspects. --- 4. --- AI. --- Big Tech. --- Big. --- John Deere. --- Monsanto. --- UAV. --- activist. --- agribusiness. --- agriculture. --- agroecological. --- algorithm. --- artificial intelligence. --- bias. --- concentration. --- corporate. --- critical studies. --- digital. --- drone. --- ethnography. --- farm. --- farmer. --- food. --- future. --- industrial agriculture. --- inequity. --- open. --- organic. --- power. --- precision analytics. --- private. --- productivism. --- public. --- science. --- sensor. --- smart farming. --- system. --- technology. --- technopolitics. --- tractor. --- unethical. --- unsustainable. --- values.

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Data science is an emerging multidisciplinary field which lies at the intersection of computer science, statistics, and mathematics, with different applications and related to data mining, deep learning, and big data. This Special Issue on “Principles and Applications of Data Science” focuses on the latest developments in the theories, techniques, and applications of data science. The topics include data cleansing, data mining, machine learning, deep learning, and the applications of medical and healthcare, as well as social media.

deep learning --- user preference learning --- feature fusion --- similar user recommendation --- convolutional neural network --- image classification --- electronic health records --- fair exchange --- forward secrecy --- raw material --- mining --- terminology --- dictionary --- terminology application --- mobile application --- digitization --- lexical data --- corpus data --- linguistic linked open data --- neuro-fuzzy --- prediction model --- air pollution --- PM2.5 --- PM10 --- self-attention mechanism --- graph neural network --- data mining --- behaviour sequence pattern --- behaviour network --- water crystal --- fine-tuning --- supervised --- classification --- combined classification model --- deep transfer learning --- focal-segmental --- kidney disease --- kidney glomeruli --- medical image --- sclerosed glomeruli --- predictive analytics --- Internet of Things --- peasant farming --- smart farming system --- crop production prediction

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This book deals with sustainable agriculture at a time of climate change. It seeks to identify a number of solutions to deal with the agricultural stresses caused by climate change. These range from the identification and cultivation of appropriate crop varieties and the adoption of climate adaptive agricultural practices. Significant sustainable agricultural innovation is required to deal with these challenges. Intellectual property rights (IPRs) may be of crucial importance for modern agriculture. They serve to make R&D in agriculture attractive, by encouraging investment in new technologies and generating tradeable assets. A number of the chapters of this book refer to the principal IPRs relevant to agricultural innovation, namely: (i) patents, which protect inventions; (ii) plant variety rights, which protect the breeding of new and distinct plant varieties; and (iii) trademarks and geographical indications, which facilitate the marketing of products by providing protection for the symbols of their manufacturing or geographic origin. The United Nations Climate Change Panel has urged the consideration of the agricultural practices of traditional communities and some of these practices particularly involving rice, banana, and brassica cultivation are explored in the book. This book is essential reading for officials of governments and international organizations concerned with sustainability, as well as scholars and students concerned with these subjects

Research. --- Biology. --- Technology. --- Engineering. --- Agriculture. --- alternative energy source --- Ethiopian mustard --- sustainability --- agricultural green development --- entropy weight method --- spatial heterogeneity --- spatial spillover effect --- China --- rice yields --- climate change --- phenology --- relative contribution --- partial correlation --- seed security --- banana tissue culture planting material --- uptake --- banana farmers --- central Uganda --- traditional rice economics --- institutional --- socio-demographic factors --- multinomial logit model --- constraints --- China-Africa cooperation --- agricultural program --- agricultural training --- technology adoption --- dams --- agriculture --- livelihoods --- health --- schistosomiasis --- restoration --- sustainable development --- climate adaptation --- rice–wheat cropping system --- South Asia --- water requirements --- nitrogen --- direct seeding --- agricultural science, technology and innovation --- Innovation efficiency --- DEA --- G20 --- productivity --- efficiency --- food security --- digital agriculture --- smart farming --- digitalization --- digital technologies --- Middle East and North Africa --- decision making --- instrumental variable --- neighbourhood effects --- rice farmers --- risk attitudes --- spatial dependence --- agricultural innovation --- sustainable agriculture --- plant breeding --- cereals --- intellectual property --- agricultural law --- plant variety rights --- seed marketing --- European Union --- fertilizer --- knowledge --- attitude --- ease of use --- motivation --- work performance --- n/a --- rice-wheat cropping system

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The rising shortage of water resources in crop-producing regions worldwide and the need for irrigation optimisation call for sustainable water savings. The allocation of irrigation water will be an ever-increasing source of pressure because of vast agricultural demands under changing climatic conditions. Consequently, irrigation has to be closely linked with water-use efficiency with the aim of boosting productivity and improving food quality, singularly in those regions where problems of water shortages or collection and delivery are widespread. The present Special Issue (SI) showcases 19 original contributions, addressing water-use efficiency in the context of sustainable irrigation management to meet water scarcity conditions. These papers cover a wide range of subjects including (i) interaction mineral nutrition and irrigation in horticultural crops, (ii) sustainable irrigation in woody fruit crops, (iii) medicinal plants, (iv) industrial crops, and (v) other topics devoted to remote sensing techniques and crop water requirements, genotypes for drought tolerance, and agricultural management. The studies were carried out in both field and laboratory surveys, with modelling studies also being conducted, and a wide range of geographic regions are also covered. The collection of these manuscripts presented in this SI updates on and provides a relevant contribution for efficient saving water resources.

fruit size --- Manzanilla --- olive --- regulated deficit irrigation --- water potential --- water relation --- leaf area --- Manihot esculenta --- photosynthesis --- tuber --- water status --- antioxidant capacity --- bioactive compounds --- growth --- hydroxycinnamic acids --- hydroponics --- preformed plastic mulch film --- crop water productivity --- biodegradation --- crop productivity --- spray-on mulch --- water use efficiency --- almond cultivars --- crop physiological response --- irrigation water productivity --- nut yield --- drip irrigation --- silicon --- mineral nutrients --- oxidative stress --- osmolytes --- yield --- Zea mays --- ERP --- GIS --- internet of things --- precision agriculture --- quality --- environment --- water --- software --- platform --- web application --- crop coefficient --- drought stress --- evapotranspiration --- maize --- water productivity --- Prunus dulcis --- Vairo --- water stress --- sustained deficit irrigation --- quality markers --- leaf greenness index --- root morphology --- almond quality --- sustainability --- marketability --- semiarid Mediterranean environment --- root components --- yield components --- fruit quality --- deficit irrigation --- leaf area index --- harvest index --- photosynthetic rate --- transpiration rate --- greenhouse --- in vitro culture --- apple --- cherries --- midday stem water potential --- sap flow --- stomatal conductance --- FDR probes and daily fraction of intercepted photosynthetically active radiation --- abiotic stress --- Linum album Ky. ex Boiss. --- morphological properties --- phenology --- pigments --- diversity --- root length density --- root weight density --- root-shoot relationships --- benefit-cost ratio --- nitrogen --- root growth --- tomato --- water saving --- Jerusalem artichoke --- mineral fertilization --- irrigation --- diseases --- fungi --- crop suitability --- remote sensing --- ALES-Arid --- SEBAL --- landsat --- crop-water requirements --- smart farming --- crop-production functions --- food quality --- crop physiological response to drought scenarios