Climate Smart Agriculture Technology Adoption in Brunei Darussalam

The global food demand is increasing anywhere between 50% to 100%. This is driven by the increase in global population with an expected adding of 2.3 billion people by 2050. The increasing food demand will require more intensive and efficient use of land which could contribute to increased crop production. Agriculture has major global environmental impact with around 19% of the global greenhouse gas emissions resulting from land clearing, crop production and fertilization. On the other hand, climate change is expected to result in long-term water and other resource shortages, worsening soil conditions, drought and desertification, disease and pest outbreaks on crops and livestock, sea-level rise, and so on. This requires a balancing act between the need to increase food yield with lower impact to the environment and more resilience toward climatic change.

Smart farming is the application of data gathering with semi-autonomous communication technology platforms composed of various climate and farming sensors, IoT control system, and software development with artificial intelligence responses, applicable to the crop cultivation and livestock farming fields. Thus, the climate smart agriculture technology (CSAT) involves the use of agricultural practices in combination with technological software and hardware solutions alerting and assisting farmers to monitor soil health, crop’s growth and automation in watering and fertiliser resources. CSAT will automate decision making, backed by real-time data collection, adjusting and adapting proper responses toward the climate change conditions in the field.