The overarching thesis of the research is: how do we feed 10 billion people in 2050 in a sustainable manner? That is, as arable lands becomes more scarce with threats such as climate change, how can we feed a growing global population while keeping the planet sustainable for all living creatures. This interdisciplinary initiative brings together Cornell researchers from engineering, life, social, and agricultural sciences to solve the most pressing questions facing agri-food systems. You can learn more through the below related projects/research centers:
- The Cornell Institute for Digital Agriculture (or CIDA)
- The Center for Research on Programmable Plant Systems (or CROPPS)
- Societal Impact of Farm Networking
This open source repository hosts projects and ideas from the Software-Defined Farm (SDF) Working Group, where the focus is building computing systems that complement the work of farmers, both small and industrial, in their quest to be profitable while maximizing sustainability efforts. The SDF provides an extensible abstraction for various CIDA projects.
A good rule of thumb if you experience issues:
git config --local core.safecrlf false
git config --local core.autocrlf true
git config --local core.autocrlf true
(Optionally replace --local with --global to make this the default for all of
your repositories.)
This project has benefited from funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under grant numbers 1955125 1922551, and 2019674, a Microsoft Investigator Fellowship, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)'s National Institute for Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under project #2017-67015-26772 and #2023-77038-38865, and the New York Farm Viability Institute under project #017-014. The project has also benefited from technical guidance and cloud computing resources from Microsoft and IBM Research.
The SDF project also benefits from research, expertise, and infrastructure from the Kubestellar project. Kubestellar is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation sandbox project.
To contribute, please do the usual git clone git@github.com:Cornell-CIDA-Dev/Software-Defined-Farm.git
Please contact gbr26@cornell.edu