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Women in Precision Agriculture

Technological breakthroughs, Challenges and Aspirations for a Prosperous and Sustainable Future

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Editors:
  1. Takoi Khemais Hamrita

    1. Driftmier Engineering Center, University of Georgia, Athens, USA

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  • Focuses on advances in precision agriculture led by leading women researchers, scholars, and professionals
  • Provides insight into women’s technical contributions in precision agriculture
  • Takes a holistic approach to precision agriculture, addressing both land and livestock applications

Part of the book series: Women in Engineering and Science (WES)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Precision Agriculture: An Overview of the Field and Women’s Contributions to It

    • Takoi Khemais Hamrita, Kaelyn Deal, Selyna Gant, Haley Selsor
    Pages 1-34

  3. Sensing Technologies and Automation for Precision Agriculture

    • Man Zhang, Ning Wang, Liping Chen
    Pages 35-54

  4. Perspectives to Increase the Precision of Soil Fertility Management on Farms

    • Joann K. Whalen
    Pages 55-68

  5. Toward Improved Nitrogen Fertilization with Precision Farming Based on Sensor and Satellite Technologies

    • Heide Spiegel, Taru Sandén, Laura Essl, Francesco Vuolo
    Pages 69-83

  6. Precision Weed Management

    • Sharon A. Clay, J. Anita Dille
    Pages 85-106

  7. Precision Irrigation: An IoT-Enabled Wireless Sensor Network for Smart Irrigation Systems

    • Sabrine Khriji, Dhouha El Houssaini, Ines Kammoun, Olfa Kanoun
    Pages 107-129

  8. Women Farmer-Breeder Partnerships in Plant Breeding, Seed, and Food Innovations: Experiences from Tigray, Northern Ethiopia

    • Fetien Abay Abera
    Pages 131-155

  9. Synthesis of a Research Program in Precision Poultry Environmental Control Using Biotelemetry

    • Takoi Khemais Hamrita, Taylor Ogle, Amanda Yi
    Pages 157-179

  10. Advancement in Livestock Farming through Emerging New Technologies

    • Jarissa Maselyne
    Pages 181-196

  11. The Impact of Advances and Challenges of Bush Internet Connectivity for Women in Agriculture in Queensland, Australia

    • Rachel Hay
    Pages 197-212

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 213-216
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About this book

This book features influential scholarly research and technical contributions, professional trajectories, disciplinary shifts, personal insights, and a combination of these from a group of remarkable women scholars within precision agriculture. The authors provide a holistic and critical overview of the field of precision agriculture (both crop and livestock), highlighting breakthroughs and impactful research led by women investigators including relevant technologies, decision making strategies, practices, applications, economics, opportunities and challenges. They discuss the urgent need for reduced cost, increased productivity, more optimal use of resources, and reduced impact on our environment. The leading female researchers contributing to this book are creating new technological advances that are revolutionizing agriculture.

  • Focuses on advances in precision agriculture led by leading women researchers, scholars, and professionals;
  • Provides insight into women’s technical contributions in precision agriculture;
  • Takes a holistic approach to precision agriculture, addressing both land and livestock applications.




Editors and Affiliations

  • Driftmier Engineering Center, University of Georgia, Athens, USA

    Takoi Khemais Hamrita

About the editor

Dr. Takoi K. Hamrita is a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Georgia, where she has taught for 23 years. She was the first woman faculty member to be hired into the department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering as an assistant professor. Dr. Hamrita’s main research focus is in precision agriculture. She has worked in many areas of precision agriculture including yield monitoring, smart poultry environmental control, biotelemetry, smart sensing, harvest and post-harvest technology. She holds a patent in yield monitoring, has published over 50 articles and book chapters and has given over 50 conference presentations around the world on related research. Dr. Hamrita has served in many leadership roles within professional societies. Dr. Hamrita is a fierce advocate for women in STEM and is the founder and chair of the Global Women in STEM Leadership Summit in Atlanta. Dr. Hamrita has built a decade-long partnership between UGA and the Tunisian ministry of higher education that has had profound impact both on UGA and Tunisia and has become an innovative model for education and development around the world. The program has earned her numerous prestigious awards such as the National Medal in Science and Education, and the prestigious Andrew Heiskell Award for Innovation in International Partnerships

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