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From Delhi to Addis Ababa, digital farming systems are taking root. Can South Africa build the public digital infrastructure to keep its farmers, and its food supply, alive?

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For years, Elon Musk, now the world’s richest person, has been promising that fully autonomous, driverless Teslas are idling just around the corner and will be delivered – soon.

Innovators from a leading engineering company have been appointed industry partner to a global project that could see bee drones and robotic moles dispatched to working farms.

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Big data refers to the “generation of enormous amounts of data due to new technologies for measurement, collection and storage”1 that are being accumulated in such vast quantities that they are impossible to assess using conventional analysis techniques.

By some calculations, the planet’s population is projected to increase almost 20% to 9.15 billion by 2050. Such growth will present immense challenges.

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Imagine walking into a double-brick house on a scorching 40°C summer day – it feels cool almost straight away. Now imagine stepping into a corrugated tin shed – it feels like an oven. The difference is simple: some materials slow heat down, while others let it rush through.