Paris, 5 July 2004
EFITA newsletter / 166 / European Federation for Information
Technology in Agriculture, Food and the Environment
Thought of the day
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts
can be counted - Albert Einstein
From William T. Parlette
E-mail: BillParlette(a)compuserve.com
Virtual Agricultural Exhibition
Start: 15 July 2004
See: http://www.agriahead.com
E-mail: info(a)ahead_bs.com
"Moral dilemma"
Anyway ... you are doing good and useful work, and don't believe that all
Americans are political humour insensitive. If you want to run this one: An
early Iraq-era rumour - unfortunately unsubstantiated - held it that Tony Blair
at one point had reported to amused colleagues that G. Bush had complained to
him about the French inability to understand risk, hard work and Free Enterprise
... "why they don't even have a word for entrepreneur!"
Beyond preferring to believe it, this American CAN believe it.
Contact: Bill PARLETTE
E-mail: billparlette(a)compuserve.com
Archive of the efita newsletter
The archive (rtf format) for the first semester 2004 is available on our
web site.
See: http://www.efita.net
European association for animal production (EAAP)
5-9 September 2004 - Bled - Slovenia
See: http://www.eaap.org
PROGIS Conference 22nd-24th of September 2004
IT in Rural Areas is not only the topic of our this years conference but
much more an issue concerning nearly everybody living in the EU, exporting into
the EU, getting subsidies from the EU and in general all of us, consuming agricultural
products and living environmentally conscious. Concerned are furthermore all
those, who don't want to lose but to come off as winners out of the current
pan-European movement.
Thus it is the objective of this conference to confront legal demands, with
reactions of worldwide acting organisations/institutions, with PROGIS software
solutions and to show best practice samples.
At this point we would like to thank all the speakers, first of all those coming
from the European Commission, DG Agriculture and Fisheries, the Food and Agricultural
organisation of the United Nations (FAO), the EURopean Umbrella Organisation
for Geographic Information (EUROGI) , the Central European Land Knowledge Centre
(CELK), the Austrian Ministry for Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water
Management, and all the other lecturers - there are too many to be named, who
will inform the auditorium widely with their interesting contributions. As mentioned
above and as answer to these key notes, PROGIS itself will show solutions and
PROGIS partners and customers will show their best practice samples.
See: http://www.progis.com
GTIS CAP European project (GTIS CAP : GeoTraceability Integrated System
for the Common Agricultural Policy)
The aim of GTIS CAP is to define and to validate an integrated information system
that will serve both the European and national administrative bodies in charge
of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and the producers of vegetal produce
for consumers and for livestock.
GTIS CAP will complete the IACS/LPIS data with other data obtained from remote
sensing and will define simple geo-traceability indicators aimed at the management,
control and monitoring of the CAP and which can also be used in integrated agricultural
management systems.
GTIS CAP will facilitate online access to this geo-traceability data and will
ensure greater efficiency in checking and conformity of good agricultural practices,
in line with CAP recommendations.The GTIS CAP project comprises four different
types of work:
1.The evaluation of new functionalities necessary for the integration of geo-traceability
into existing tools and for it to become a CAP management, follow up and monitoring
tool which will also be useful for producers.
2.Definition of norms and standards that will enable the interoperability of
IACS/LPIS geo-referenced data and functionalities for CAP management, follow
up and monitoring.
3.Definition of simple and easy-to-use geo-indicators provided by satellite
images.
4.Implementation and validation of the integrated system in two test regions
in order to produce after experimentation by
producers groups a recommendation for European and national administrative bodies.
NB
- IACS : Integrated Administrative and Control System
- LPIS : Land Parcel Identification Systems
Conatct: Michel DEBORD
E-mail: michel.debord(a)wanadoo.fr
International Institute for Sustainable Development
See: http://www.iisd.ca
Food and Veterinary Office
The Commission, in its role as guardian of the Treaties of the European
Community, is responsible for ensuring that Community legislation on food safety,
animal health, plant health and animal welfare is properly implemented and enforced.
As a Commission service, the Food and Veterinary Office (FVO) plays an important
role in fulfilling this the task.
See: http://europa.eu.int/comm/food/fs/inspections/index_en.html
agra-net.com, the online home of Agra Group, the specialist information service
on food, agriculture, soft commodities, fisheries and seafood
See: http://www.agra-net.com
Global conference on animal welfare: an OIE initiative (proceedings of the
Paris conference, February 2004)
See: http://www.oie.int/eng/Welfare_2004/proceedings.pdf
The Pharmacist
A lady walked into a pharmacy and tells the pharmacist she needs some cyanide.
The pharmacist said, "Why in the world do you need cyanide?"
The lady then explained she needed it to poison her husband.
The pharmacist's eyes got big and he said, "Lord have mercy I can't give
you cyanide to kill your husband! That's against the law! They'll throw both
of us in jail and I'll lose my license!"
Then the lady reached into her purse, pulled out a picture of her husband in
bed with the pharmacist's wife, and handed it to him.
The pharmacist looked at the picture and replied, "Well now, you didn't
tell me you had a prescription."
Contact: Will BOARDMAN
E-mail: wilboardman(a)micromixsolutions.com
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