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LiteFarm's research is a collaboration between universities, federal scientists, farmer organizations and technology partners around the world. We're grateful to everyone listed here.
Projects powered by LiteFarm
Research and community initiatives using LiteFarm around the world. Scroll to follow the thread.
A Unified, Open System for Farm Emissions
An NSERC Alliance Society project bringing together universities, federal scientists, farmer organizations and technology partners to build a unified, open system that lets Canadian farmers measure and benchmark their greenhouse gas emissions using data they already track. It connects Canada's official farm emissions calculator (Holos) with LiteFarm and the Cool Farm Tool through a common data standard, using satellite imagery and machine learning to fill gaps in records. All software is open-source, bilingual and privacy-protected, with 700+ Canadian farms targeted to use the system by project end.
Agroecology4Climate
An international collaboration examining how agroecological transitions can tackle climate change while strengthening farming communities and ecosystems. Running across Canada, Brazil, Germany and India, it focuses on diversified, perennial systems, combining soil sampling, farmer interviews and surveys alongside social movements to test the idea that agroecology works best when practice is paired with active participation in agroecological movements.
Learn moreAgroecology Performance (FAO TAPE)
TAPE, the FAO's Tool for Agroecology Performance Evaluation, measures how far a farm has progressed in its agroecological transition. We integrated the TAPE survey directly into LiteFarm using SurveyJS, so farmers can take it right inside the app. Responses flow into the Agroecology (TAPE) tab of this dashboard, where you can explore your scores across the ten elements of agroecology and see how your farm compares with other farms.
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Agroecology in Latin America
A participatory action research network spanning 10 organizations across seven Latin American countries. Local partners and farmers co-collect data on 11 social, environmental and economic indicators using LiteFarm and SurveyStack, building one of the region's most comprehensive bodies of evidence on agroecological transitions, and sharing it back with the communities who created it.
Learn moreRegenerative Climate Resilient Vegetable (RCRV)
A UBC-led study of how regenerative and organic practices, cover cropping, reduced tillage and nutrient management, cut emissions and build soil health on British Columbia farms. It pairs on-farm trials and soil sampling with participatory research to produce evidence-based recommendations, with LiteFarm helping map fields, document practices and record soil-sampling locations.
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Smart Irrigation
A collaboration bringing real-time soil-moisture, weather and crop data together to generate practical irrigation recommendations. The aim is to reduce both over- and under-watering and improve overall water efficiency. It's currently piloting with farmers in Southern Alberta, where agriculture depends heavily on irrigation.
Learn moreConnecting Farms to Markets
A Community of Organizations (CoO) pilot showing how independent open-source projects can build shared, interoperable infrastructure for agriculture while keeping farmers in control of their data. It links hundreds of farms across farm management, marketplace and discovery platforms through community-stewarded open standards, a replicable model for federated cooperation that emerged from DWeb Camp 2024.
Exit to Community
An exploration of governance pathways for LiteFarm's future, how it can move from university stewardship toward community-led oversight while staying open-source and financially sustainable. The work weighs eight possible models, from independent non-profits to trusts and umbrella groups, positioning LiteFarm as a digital public good within a growing global agricultural-technology ecosystem.
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The grant and the research home that make this work possible.
