The Role of Smart Farming in Sustainable Development

Siti Fatimahwati Pehin Dato Musa,Edna Luah,Khairul Hidayatullah Basir

doi:10.4018/ijabim.20220701.oa5

Abstract

This paper intends to explore the development of agriculture in to smart farming and how smart farming can contribute to the sustainable development goals. The paper focuses on how smart farming can be imparted in sustainable agriculture by analyzing the environmental, economic and social impact. This paper applied a systematic literature review technique to assess published academic literature on smart farming and sustainable agriculture in Southeast Asia. The review identified that smart farming can lead to less environmental damage, lower cost and higher productivity and has the potential to create decent jobs for the youth ultimately leading to a sustainable food system.

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Food security has always been a challenge in the Southeast Asia region
This paper intends to explore the development of agriculture into smart farming and how smart farming can contribute to the sustainable development goals
This paper have explored the latest trend of agriculture and the adoption of smart farming methods in contributing towards sustainable agriculture to meet Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the growing global food demand

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Introduction

Food security has always been a challenge in the Southeast Asia region. According to MarzędaMłynarska (2017), this is due to the growing population, challenging environmental conditions, risks of climate change, and rapid urbanisation. The current pandemic of COVID-19 has resulted in a new dimension of food (in)security i.e. the disruption of supply and demand. This is mainly due to the lockdown of several major cities, border closures, and job or income losses. This has disrupted the food supply chain and affected the status of food security in many countries. COVID-19 has resulted in an abrupt change in the world’s food consumption and production patterns which is a reflection that nature has a limited capacity to meet human needs. Episodes of avian flu (H5N1) and swine flu (H1N1) outbreaks originating from densely packed farms of hybrid

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