Fairshare Dataset

AgNav

water quality emissions biodiversity

Teagasc, ICBF and Bord Bia2023


AgNav is a new sustainability toolkit that provides farmers with accurate and verifiable data to support decision making on farm to help meet agriculture’s Climate Action. It streamlines the collection of key farm data and utilises it to accurately provide baseline figures, supports farmers to use verified data, to make better decisions and implement them. The objectives of AgNav include: Encourage and support farmers to implement climate action and sustainability improvement on Irish farms; Leverage the most robust inter-agency data, research and resources to drive the most appropriate actions tailored to individual farms; Enable the most precise capture and analysis of data allowing accurate calculation of action impact; Provide a mechanism to support the quantification of progress towards Climate Action Plan targets for the agri sector; Support clear communications on positive progress achieved at farm level – gives control to farmers.

Categories

  • Analysis & Benchmarking
  • Real time monitoring & Decision support

Target groups

  • Farmers/Cooperatives
  • Agronomists/Advisory services

Sectors

  • Animal production in general
  • Dairy (cattle, sheep, goats)
  • Meat (cattle, pigs, sheep, goats, poultry, rabbits, snails)

Modes of delivery

  • Web app

Source of data

  • Manual input
  • IoT installed devices
  • Technical 3rd party services
  • Administrative 3rd party services

Required ICT skills

Moderate

Benefits

  • Increase of productivity
  • Optimization of resources use
  • Environmental protection
  • Biodiversity preservation
  • Minimization of input costs
  • Efficient strategy planning
  • Effective operational management
  • Enhanced adaptation & resilience to climate change

Challenges addressed

  • Markets and sales
  • Sustainable food production and healthy diets

Resources