BRICS states advance unified agricultural satellite platform to monitor global food security
BRICS nations are developing a unified digital agricultural platform to monitor food security using satellite data from member countries. The initiative aims to optimize farming through precision agriculture, AI analysis, and satellite-guided machinery.
Why it matters
This collaboration represents a significant shift toward data-driven agricultural management among major global economies to address food security challenges.
BRICS member states are advancing plans to create a unified digital agricultural monitoring platform, with Russia offering to provide partners with data from its orbital Earth remote sensing constellation as ready-made agricultural services.
The proposed geoinformation platform would consolidate data from the satellite constellations of all member countries, which account for almost half of the planet’s agricultural land.
“Agriculture is rapidly becoming one of the largest consumers of big data, and, accordingly, without a unified monitoring system, it is now impossible to effectively manage global food security,” Lubarto Sartoyo, President of the Alliance of Business Structures and Entrepreneurs of Southeast Asian Countries, said in an interview with TV BRICS.
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