Smart Farming for Food Security

Modern smart farming practices focuses on employing tools such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), IoT (the new internet of everything) and other advanced tools and approaches (new technologies and approaches) to improve efficiency and productivity of farming operations.These practices optimize crop production, conserve and eliminate unnecessary water usage, minimize other forms of wastes and protect environmental sustainability.Smart farming, or precision agriculture represents the use of modern technologies used for making farming more efficient, data based, real time, and most importantly sustainable.Modern Technologies such as the IoT, sensors, drones, and data analytics are used.From above technologies, IoT or internet of things gives a major contribution by connecting everyday agricultural devices and sensors to the internet, the use of IoT allows real time data collection and analysis.It monitors essential soil parameters like moisture, Temperature, pH, and nutrient levels.The soil sensors are embedded in the soil which provide the real time data for the analysis.This is information is then transmitted to the cloud-based apps or platforms so as to be easily accessible to the farmers.Using IoT not only enhances the production of crop but also promotes sustainability.The paper identifies the potential of smart farming in addressing various global challenges especially climate change, resource inadequacy, food insecurity as well as supporting the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly SDG 2 (Zero Hunger) and SDG 13 (Climate Action).