Feasibility Study of Demonstration of a Real-time Monitoring System of Water Irrigation Quality for Rice Smallholder Farmers in Ararangua River Brazil

该项目旨在调查和改进为巴西圣卡塔琳娜州Ararangua河小农（特别是水稻生产者）实施灌溉水质实时监测系统试点示范项目的可行性。该项目的愿景是实现联合国可持续发展目标6和12，使巴西小农具备改善作物灌溉用水管理和减少粮食浪费的技术能力。在巴西，87%的农场是由家庭经营的小型农场，它们在32%的耕地上生产了巴西40%的农业GDP（世界银行，2017年）。尽管小农具有经济意义，但他们面临着一些挑战，包括缺乏获得技术和基本连接基础设施的机会。此外，他们中的许多人是数字文盲，这使得这项技术更难关闭。农业部门的增长加剧了水资源数量和质量方面的冲突（世界银行，2018年）。该技术解决方案旨在监测当地的环境条件、河流的进水水质（包括盐度）和用水量。主要的好处是确定水是否足以用于作物灌溉，这对提高粮食生产力、减少冲突管理流域资源的使用和环境的可持续性都很重要。可行性研究将与UFSC大学合作实现，它将包括市场研究与以人为本的设计相结合的方法。这项创新是基于Camnexus开发的尖端技术的集成：一个具有远程连接的低功耗传感器网络，用于实时监控数据可视化和预测分析。该项目预计将产生若干影响，包括经济和环境影响（竞争力增强），因为水稻产量增加，水资源管理和水质监测效率提高；性别平等，因为水稻生产和家庭农业主要由妇女实现；通过提供实时数据和无障碍连接基础设施，对获取信息和基础设施产生影响；透过提供新知识和技能，提升本地创新和采用科技的能力，弥合科技和数码鸿沟。该项目符合Camnexus的愿景，即通过技术开发人员、最终用户和主要利益相关者之间的包容性合作伙伴关系，共同开发技术，从而实现联合国可持续发展目标（sdg），从而提高发展中国家的本地创新能力和可持续的商业化路线。

This project aims to investigate and improve the feasibility of undertaking a pilot demonstration project of a Real-time Monitoring System of Water Irrigation Quality for smallholders farmers - particularly rice producers - of the Ararangua River, state of Santa Catarina, Brazil.The vision of this project is to meet the UN sustainable development goals 6 and 12, by enabling Brazilian smallholder farmers with technological capability to improve water management for crop irrigation, food waste reduction. In Brazil, 87% of farms are small and run by families, and they produce 40% of Brazil's agricultural GDP on 32% of its cultivated land (World Bank 2017). Despite their economical relevance, smallholder farmers face several challenges, including lack of access to technology and to basic connectivity infrastructure. Moreover, many of them are digital illiterate, which makes the technological even more difficult to close. Growth in the agricultural sector has contributed to increasing conflicts over water quantity and quality (World Bank, 2018).The technological solution to be validated for demonstration aims to monitor the local environmental conditions, in-feed water quality from the river including salinity, and water consumption. The main benefits are in determining whether the water is adequate for crop irrigation, which is important for increasing food productivity, reducing of conflict management on use of watershed resources and environmental sustainability.The feasibility study will be realised in partnership with UFSC university and it will include a combined approach of market research with human-centered design. The innovation is based on the integration of cutting-edge technology developed by Camnexus: a network of low-power sensors with long-range connectivity for real-time monitoring data visualisation and predictive analytics.There are several anticipated impacts of this project involving economic and environmental impacts (competitiveness increase) by increase in rice production and efficient water management and water quality monitoring, gender equality because rice production and family farming is mostly realised by women, impact on access to information and infrastructure by providing with real-time data and accessible connectivity infrastructure, and impact on local capacity development, by providing new knowledge and skills for local innovation and tech adoption capability, bridging the technology and digital divide.This project aligns with Camnexus' vision that addressing the UN sustainable development goals (SDGs) can be achieved through partnership for co-development of technology in an inclusive approach between the technology developers and the end-users and key stakeholders, resulting in local innovation capability in developing countries and sustainable commercialisation routes.