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Agro 4.0: A Green Information System for Sustainable Agroecosystem Management
Agriculture is one of the most critical activities developed today by
humankind and is in constant technical evolution to supply food and other
essential products to everlasting and increasing demand. New machines, seeds,
and fertilizers were developed to increase the productivity of cultivated
areas. It is estimated that by 2050 we will have a population of 9 billion
people and the production of food to meet this demand must occur sustainably.
To achieve this goal, it is paramount the adoption of sustainable management
techniques for agroecosystems. However, this is a complex task due to a large
number of variables involved. One of the solutions for the handling and
treatment of such diverse data is the use of Green IS. In this work, we adopt a
methodology called Indicators of Sustainability in Agroecosystems (Indicadores
de Sustentabilidade em Agroecossistemas -- ISA), implement an information
system based on it and apply Data Science techniques over the gathered data -
from 100 real rural properties - to compute which are the most relevant ISA
Indicators for the final ISA Sustainability Index Score. As a result, we have
developed a set of tools for data collection, processing, visualization, and
analysis of the sustainability of a rural property or region, following the ISA
methodology. We also have that with only 7 of the 21 Indicators present in ISA
we can identify the level of sustainability in more than 90% of cases, allowing
for a new discussion about shrinking the amount of data needed for the
computation of ISA, or remodelling the final computation of the Sustainability
Index so other Indicators can be more expressive. Users of the solutions
developed in this work can identify best practices for sustainability in
participating agroecosystems