Châtenay-Malabry (FR
- 92290), 23 January 2017
EFITA newsletter / 766 - European Federation for Information Technology
in Agriculture, Food and the Environment
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See you in EFITA 2017 in Montpellier in one the most interesting and
beautiful region that I know
See: http://www.montpellier-france.com/
See: http://www.efita2017.org
Close to Montpellier, the splendid city of Nîmes
See: http://www.ot-nimes.fr/index.php?L=1
Close to Montpellier:
Nîmes (at the origin of the jean tissue from "toile de Nîmes"
to "denim" and "jean")
See: http://typo3.nimes.fr/index.php?id=2168#jfmulticontent_c13390-4
See: http://typo3.nimes.fr/fileadmin/directions/culture/musee_vieux_nimes/fiches_pedagogiques/Denim_de_Nimes-_Jeune_public.pdf
And
the Montpellier Ag University is splendid too!
HAICTA 2017, 8th International Conference on Information & Communication
Technologies in Agriculture, Food and Environment
21-24 September, CHANIA, Crete, Greece
>>> Post-conference proceedings will be published at Springer
>>> Organisation
The Conference is co-organized by the Hellenic Association for Information
and Communication Technologies in Agriculture, Food and Environment
(HAICTA) and the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania (MAICh)
in cooperation with a number of Institutions.
- Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
- Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Greece
- University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece
- Technological Educational Institute of Western Macedonia, Greece
- Agricultural University of Athens, Greece
- Technical University of Crete, Greece
HAICTA is the Greek Branch of the European Federation for Information
Technology in Agriculture (EFITA). Until now HAICTA has organized a
series of seven successful international conferences.
HAICTA 2017 aims to bring together professionals, experts and researchers
working on Information and Communication Technologies in Agriculture,
Food and Environment. We additionally aim to emphasize on the applicability
of ICT solutions to real industry cases and the respective challenges.
>>> Topics
We accept submissions in all areas of ICT in Agriculture, Food and the
Environment including but not limited to:
- Information Systems
- Web Applications
- Database Systems and Data Mining
- Decision Support Systems
- Innovations in Food Hygiene and the Production of High Quality Food
- Quality Assurance and Certification of Innovative Food Products
- E-Business, E-Commerce, E-Sales, E-Marketing and E-Services
- Innovative Uses of Agricultural By-products and Waste Management
- Traceability Systems
- Innovation in Short Value Chains in Rural Areas
- Modeling and Simulation in Climate Change
- Water Resources Management
- Environmental Design and Policy
- Environmental Impact Assessment
- Epidemics Modelling
- Internet of Things, Sensor, RFID and Mobile/Wireless Network Applications
- Precision Farming Systems, Variable Rate Technologies
- Farm and Animal Health Monitoring and Data Recording Systems
- Efficient Irrigation Technologies and Water Quality Monitoring
- Fish Health and Product Quality Monitoring in Aquaculture
- Genomics and Biotechnologies in Genetic Improvement
- Diffusion of Innovation in Rural Areas
- E-networking, Collective Actions and E-governance in Rural Areas
- E-learning, Interactive Systems and Web-based Farmer Education
- ICT and Innovation in the Promotion of Rural Areas and Alternative
Tourism
- Wood Technology and Wood Products
- Wildfire Risk Assessment
- Information Systems and Wildlife Management & Protection
- Spatial Analysis, Landscape Planning and GIS-based Analysis
- Supply Chain Management & Logistics
>>> Types of Submission
Type
of Submission
|
Length
of Paper
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Type
of Presentation
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Full
Paper
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6
pages min. - 12 pages max.
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Oral
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Poster
|
3
pages min. - 6 pages max.
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Poster
|
Doctoral
Consortium
|
3
pages min. - 10 pages max.
|
Oral
|
Industry
Paper
|
3
pages min. - 10 pages max.
|
Demo
- Oral
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Short
Paper
|
3
pages min. - 6 pages max.
|
Oral
|
>>> Paper submission
All papers will be reviewed through a fully electronic peer review process
by at least two referees. Final acceptance will be based on the review
of the paper submission. Paper submissions will be handled by an ONLINE
SUBMISSION SYSTEM that has been set up for HAICTA 2017.
>>> Publication
All accepted papers and posters will be published in the conference
proceedings which will be deposited online before the conference in
the CEUR workshop proceedings publication service, from where they will
be permanently available online and citable. After the Conference, selected
papers will be invited to significantly extend and re-submit for publication
in two books of collective work that will be published in Springer.
The first book, already agreed, will be published in the Springer CCIS
conference book series. The second will be a book of chapters that will
be published in Springer’s Earth System Sciences series (confirmation
pending). Also, selected papers will be invited for a special issue
in the International Journal of Agricultural Resources, Governance and
Ecology.
>>> Important Dates
> March 13, 2017
Submissions due (for every type of submission: full research and short
papers, posters, doctoral consortium, industry papers).
> April 17, 2017
Notification of acceptance for all submissions.
> May 08, 2017
Camera Ready Paper Submission.
> 21-24 September, 2017
Conference in Chania, Crete, Greece.
>>> Tutorials
We invite proposals for tutorials to be held during the conference.
Proposals should be submitted electronically by March 30, 2017 to scientific
committee chairs. A summary of the tutorials will be published in the
conference proceedings. Please check the Conference website for the
list of tutorials.
>>> Conference Secretariat
For any further information you can contact the conference secretariat
at haicta2017(a)gmail.com or the program chairs.
See: http://2017.haicta.gr/
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Further to the e-Book details reported in the #761 Newsletter
ICT methodologies in agriculture and rural development remain a
model for other related fields of development, relevant innovative concepts
and activities such as disruptive innovation, population pollution,
market chains (F2F), mobile information literacy, spillovers, vertical
agriculture, drone managed PA, reversed urbanization and many more.
With that noted the last decade’s e-Book’s performance stats (below)
confirm the ongoing pressure of demand for ICT’s development, overall
innovation, dissemination methodologies and implementation. The two
tables elaborate these descriptions*.
>>> Table 1. Decade Summary of e-Book’s activities
Date
|
Visits
|
Pages
|
Files
|
Hits
|
29-Dec-2016
|
3258
|
3851
|
128715
|
484342
|
13-Jan-2016
|
3719
|
4427
|
127778
|
666642
|
06-Jan-2015
|
4651
|
5459
|
117825
|
696296
|
01-Jan-2014
|
4196
|
4947
|
122450
|
777960
|
16-Jan-2013
|
3936
|
4835
|
92119
|
601640
|
02-Jan-2012
|
4642
|
5868
|
82581
|
535028
|
02-Jan-2011
|
5294
|
6581
|
57721
|
311287
|
28-Jan-2010
|
4202
|
5781
|
46566
|
225168
|
01-Jan-2009
|
4256
|
5933
|
34271
|
112166
|
08-Jan-2008
|
3786
|
5487
|
25976
|
55627
|
31-Jan-2007
|
3544
|
5028
|
18802
|
38927
|
>>> Table
2: 2016 Top Country Hits (>3000 P.A.)
|
2013
|
2014
|
2015
|
2016*
|
U.S.A
|
32792
|
32457
|
32989
|
35900
|
India
|
42629
|
33052
|
26384
|
16368
|
Philippines
|
27204
|
18940
|
14775
|
10517
|
S.
Africa
|
15342
|
12317
|
14550
|
10618
|
Ethiopia
|
12756
|
12392
|
11928
|
9259
|
Kuwait
|
2376
|
4564
|
7557
|
5961
|
Malaysia
|
11091
|
8222
|
6844
|
3815
|
Nigeria
|
5931
|
5537
|
6216
|
2039
|
U.K.
|
9170
|
8718
|
5714
|
4180
|
Kenya
|
9416
|
7522
|
4847
|
3420
|
Japan
|
2647
|
1881
|
4434
|
3970
|
China
|
1839
|
2191
|
3904
|
3986
|
* Reminder: Hits are requests for information. In 2016 they were
filtered for irrelevant requests – explaining reduced request variations.
In 2016 there were 94 requesting countries: 10 at >3000 requests; 20
requesting >1000; 28 countries requesting >500, and 36 requesting
>100. In 2016 there were more than 94 active requesting countries.
* Definitions:
The File columns record actual replies to requests from the “e-Book”.
For full definition of all terms see http://www.webalizer.org/webalizer_help.html
See: http://departments.agri.huji.ac.il/economics/gelb-main.html
Contact: Ehud GELB
E-mail: gelb(a)agri.huji.ac.il
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The duck and the lawyer
A big city lawyer went duck hunting in rural North Wairarapa.
He shot and dropped a bird, but it fell into a farmer's field on the other
side of a fence.
As the lawyer climbed over the fence, an elderly farmer drove up on his
tractor and asked him what he was doing.
The litigator responded, "I shot a duck and it fell in this field,
and now I'm going to retrieve it."
The old farmer replied, "This is my property, and you are not coming
over here."
The indignant lawyer said, "I am one of the best trial attorneys in
New Zealand and, if you don't let me get that duck, I'll sue you and take
everything you own."
The old farmer smiled and said, "Apparently, you don't know how we
settle disputes in North Wairarapa ... We settle small disagreements like
this with the 'Three Kick Rule.'"
The lawyer asked, "What is the 'Three Kick Rule'?"
The Farmer replied, "Well, because the dispute occurs on my land, I
get to go first. I kick you three times and then you kick me three times
and so on back and forth until someone gives up."
The attorney quickly thought about the proposed contest and decided that
he could easily take the old codger. He agreed to abide by the local custom.
The old farmer slowly climbed down from the tractor and walked up to the
attorney.
His first kick planted the toe of his heavy steel toed work boot into the
lawyer's groin and dropped him to his knees!
His second kick to the midriff sent the lawyer's last meal gushing from
his mouth.
The lawyer was on all fours when the farmer's third kick to his rear end,
sent him face-first into a fresh cow pie.
The lawyer summoned every bit of his will and remaining strength and very
slowly managed to get to his feet.
Wiping his face with the arm of his jacket, he said, "Okay, you old
fart. Now it's my turn."
The old farmer smiled and said, "Nah, I give up. You can have the duck."
Next
Efita
Congress
2 - 6 July 2017
Please,
note these dates!
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Montpellier
- France at SupAgro Ag University
See: http://www.efita2017.org/
See:
https://www.supagro.fr/
See: http://www.agrotic.org/blog/
Contacts
:
Jean-Pierre CHANET (Irstea)
Bruno TISSEYRE (AgroTIC SupAgro)
Olivier NAUD (Irstea)
Mél : jean-pierre.chanet(a)irstea.fr, tisseyre(a)supagro.inra.fr,
olivier.naud(a)irstea.fr
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Jokes, Quotes and Anecdotes... an Anatomy of Wit
Mick Harkin, ex Secretary of EFITA, who has kept us amused with his
Friday Jokes over the years, has published a book on Amazon entitled "Jokes,
Quotes and Anecdotes... an Anatomy of Wit".
See: http://www.jokesquotesandanecdotes.com
Contact: Mick HARKIN
E-mail: mickjharkin(a)gmail.com
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