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Châtenay-Malabry (FR - 92290), 3 February 2013 EFITA newsletter / 636 - European Federation for Information Technology in Agriculture, Food and the Environment 
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Organic.Lingua Closing Workshop 6 February 2014 – ROME Organic.Lingua’s Closing Workshop will take place on Thursday, 6th of February 2014 and it will be co-organised by Agro-Know Technologies and University of Alcalá (UAH) and hosted at the premises of Città dell'Altra Economia (CAE) in Rome, Italy. The workshop aims to present the produced multilingual technologies & framework applied to transform the Organic.Edunet (www.organic-edunet.eu) into a truly multilingual service, and their potential to be used in other online services. The event will bring together people from different organizations and initiatives that are active in the agricultural domain, as well as potential adopters of the multilingual framework, to explore how they could take advantage of these multilingual technologies within their institutions/organizations. During the event, a set of best practices for transforming an online service to a truly multilingual service will be presented and discussed. The workshop will close with a networking session that will give the participants the chance to discuss on potential opportunities arising from Horizon 2020 and Connecting Europe Facility. >>> Organic.Lingua (Organic.Lingua is aiming to enhance the Organic.Edunet Web portal (http://www.organic-edunet.eu), which offers access to educational content on Organic Agriculture (OA) and Agroecology (AE). Organic.Lingua provides automated multi-lingual services that will further support the uptake of the portal from its targeted audiences, facilitate its multilingual features, and further extend its geographical and linguistic coverage). See: http://wiki.organic-lingua.eu/Organic_Lingua_Closing_Workshop CAPIGI - Connecting the Future 2 - 4 April 2014 - AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands See: http://www.capigi.eu/ Smart AgriMatics 2014 18 - 19 June 2014 - PARIS Several session, which cover the different aspects of the conference theme ‘The future use of ICT and robotics in agriculture and food business’, are organised within the following topics: 1. Farming in the Cloud 2. Intelligent Perishable Goods Logistics 3. Supply Chain Digitization 4. Information & Data Exchange 5. Smart Food Awareness 6. Global Strategy for ICT in Agri-Food From the perspective of these topics, the whole agri-food supply chain will be covered and different sectors will receive attention: meat, dairy products, crops, fruits, vegetables, flowers, etc. The challenge is to identify commonalities and shared objectives between these sectors and different parts of the supply chain. Particular attention will be paid to the development of Public-Private Partnerships. See: http://www.smartagrimatics.eu/ International Society of Precision Agriculture - ICPA (12th conference) 20 – 23 July - SACRAMENTO (CA) See: https://www.ispag.org/icpa EU funded project FieldCopter Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) are an up-and-coming method in providing farmers with (near) real time sensing information for precision agriculture applications such as water stress monitoring, detection of nutrient deficiencies and crop diseases. The EU funded project FieldCopter provides state-of-the-art multi-spectral cameras on UAS that deliver the right information in the right time on the right spot, developing a complete solution for UAS sensing. Voir : http://www.fieldcopter.eu/ Disruptive Conservation: A New Thread to Connect Multi-Sector Values See: http://www.sustainablebrands.com/news_and_views/ supply_chain/tim_gieseke/disruptive_conservation_new_thread_connect_multi-sector_valu The Death Of Expertise I am (or at least think I am) an expert. Not on everything, but in a particular area of human knowledge, specifically social science and public policy. When I say something on those subjects, I expect that my opinion holds more weight than that of most other people. I never thought those were particularly controversial statements. As it turns out, they’re plenty controversial. Today, any assertion of expertise produces an explosion of anger from certain quarters of the American public, who immediately complain that such claims are nothing more than fallacious “appeals to authority,” sure signs of dreadful “elitism,” and an obvious effort to use credentials to stifle the dialogue required by a “real” democracy. (…/…) See: http://thefederalist.com/2014/01/17/the-death-of-expertise/ Smart Catalogue of Educational Materials (various educational materials connected to cartography and related sciences (GIS, geography)) See http://environment-and-education.centralivinglab.eu/index.html With Kansas Pork Farmers See: http://www.eatpork.org With Illinois Farm Families See: http://www.watchusgrow.org AgDay is the nation's longest-running daily syndicated news program about agriculture and rural America See: http://www.agweb.com/agday/ Emily Brooks Blog > Emily Brooks & the New Sustainability Inc Blog See: http://www.newsustainabilityinc.com/2013/12/02/emilybrooks/ > The Ultimate Confusion: Defining Sustainable Agriculture See: http://www.newsustainabilityinc.com/2014/01/18/the-ultimate-confusion-defining-sustainable-agriculture/ > Can Rural Agriculture Solve Global Food Insecurity? See: http://www.newsustainabilityinc.com/2014/01/14/can-rural-agriculture-solve-global-food-insecurity/ > Poverty Eradication Using Sustainability Principles See: http://www.newsustainabilityinc.com/2014/01/07/poverty-eradication-using-sustainability-principles/ > Is “The Future We Want” good for business? See: http://www.newsustainabilityinc.com/2013/12/04/isthefuturewewantgoodforbusiness/ TOP 8 MORONS OF 2013 (not new but funny) 1. AT&T fired President John Walter after nine months, saying he lacked intellectual leadership. He received a $26 million severance package. Perhaps it's not Walter who's lacking intelligence. 2. Police in Oakland, CA spent two hours attempting to subdue a gunman who had barricaded himself inside his home. After firing ten tear gas canisters, officers discovered that the man was standing beside them in the police line, shouting, 'Please come out and give yourself up.' 3. An Illinois man, pretending to have a gun, kidnapped a motorist and forced him to drive to two different automated teller machines, wherein the kidnapper proceeded to withdraw money from his own bank accounts. 4. A man walked into a Topeka, Kansas Kwik Stop and asked for all the money in the cash drawer. Apparently, the take was too small, so he tied up the store clerk and worked the counter himself for three hours until police showed up and grabbed him. 5. Police in Los Angeles had good luck with a robbery suspect who just couldn't control himself during a lineup. When detectives asked each man in the lineup to repeat the words: 'Give me all your money or I'll shoot', the man shouted, 'that's not what I said!' 6. A man spoke frantically into the phone: 'My wife is pregnant and her contractions are only two minutes apart'. 'Is this her first child?' the doctor asked. 'No!' the man shouted, 'This is her husband!' 7. In Modesto, CA, Steven Richard King was arrested for trying to hold up a Bank of America branch without a weapon. King used a thumb and a finger to simulate a gun. Unfortunately, he failed to keep his hand in his pocket. (hellooooooo)! 8. Last summer, down on Lake Isabella, located in the high desert, an hour east of Bakersfield, CA, some folks, new to boating, were having a problem. No matter how hard they tried, they couldn't get their brand new 22 foot boat, going. It was very sluggish in almost every maneuver, no matter how much power they applied. After about an hour of trying to make it go, they putted into a nearby marina, thinking someone there may be able to tell them what was wrong. A thorough topside check revealed everything in perfect working condition The engine ran fine, the out-drive went up and down, and the propeller was the correct size and pitch. So, one of the marina guys jumped in the water to check underneath. He came up choking on water, he was laughing so hard. Under the boat, still strapped securely in place, was the trailer.... The distribution of this efita newsletter is sponsored by vitisphere.com Please, contribute to the content of your efita newsletter, and advertise your events, new publications, new products and new project in this newsletter. Without your support, it will not survive! Contact: Guy WAKSMAN E-mail: guy.waksman(a)laposte.net To read this newsletter on our web site See: http://www.informatique-agricole.org/gazette/efita/efita_140203_636.htm
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