Intellectual output 1

Field and Desk Research

The overall report on smart farming in participating countries provides an overview of the findings from research activities on:

• Existing smart farming applications in each country, as well as the overall smart farming establishments, and their development over the past years-decades;

• Level of adoption and reception of such cultivation techniques from the local communities, as well as the overall level of awareness of the countries’ population;

• Existence, or lack thereof, of learning, teaching and training material for development of smart farming at all levels, i.e. secondary, tertiary, adult and VET;

• Institutions in place that help in this direction, i.e. Governments’, Universities’ and other organizations’ related operations, as well as the relevant legislation and overall policymaking initiatives towards the promotion of environment-friendly cultivation techniques;

• Proportion of individual, small scale, larger scale and industrial scale utilization of smart urban farming methods, their market success, successful technologies, the most appropriate vegetables and fish to include for each country’s climate, etc.

• Subsequently, the analysis of the research results aims the enhancing of the knowledge over the current state, popularity and room for development of smart urban farming, as well as to assess what would be the most suitable channel for expansion and what measures need to be taken, i.e. through public bodies, civil society organizations, or through industrial applications.

The report with its annexes is accesibe for download from here: https://bit.ly/report_annexes

The country reports for all participating countries are listed here below.