Cool Farm Tool Water | Big Policy Canvas

Cool Farm Tool water metrics enable farmers quickly and easily account for their crops’ water needs and gain insight into better practice.

The tool combines just user inputs with global data sets for crop, soil and climate data, to provide crop water estimates.

Type of content: Assets

Type of asset:

Application

Big data potential

Yes

Policy domains: Agriculture, Fisheries, Forestry & Foods

Phase in the policy cycle:

Policy Implementation

TRL

Implementation/customisation cost

Low

Open license availability

Yes

Ease of use

Low

Website

Tags: Smart surveillance systems Real time information Process and resource optimisation

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Addresses:

SWOT Analysis for Cool Farm Tool Water
	Helpful	Harmful
Internal	Strengths• Enables farmers to quickly and easily account for their crops’ water needs and gain insight into better practice. • Minimal data entry maximum output (the tool combines just a few additional user inputs with global data sets for crop, soil and climate data, to provide crop water estimates). • Efficient water use	Weaknesses• Not providing calculations to inform water catchment policies
External	Opportunities• Ability to compare crop water footprints to water scarcity/availability in the region. • Include more crops and more management options to consider. • Provide calculations to inform water catchment policies. • Add-ons	Threats• Competition • Ownership issues of the public and government generated data • Weather conditions

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