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EFITA newsletter / 841 - European Federation for Information Technology in Agriculture, Food and the Environment

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Food Use Tech: Where the Agtech & FoodTech Revolution takes place

20 - 21 September – DIJON (France)
Experiment with digital solutions and meet with the agri-food industry key players, from field to fork
See: https://foodusetech.fr/en


Global Future Farming Summit (6 November 2018) and Experience Tour (7 November 2018)

>>> Global Future Farming Summit
Join our experts during the second Global Future Farming Summit in Wageningen, Netherlands. Discover what is happening in the world of agriculture and food, and what research and business are doing. On the basis of interesting cases you will learn what the value of blockchain is in agri- and horticulture, how AI is used for growing food sustainably, how robots can feed the world, what big data can mean to us and how to create impact if your business focusses on people, planet and profit.

>>> Experience Tour
This tour is only available for attendees of the summit. You will visit “Phenomea”, where shelf life of fresh food products is researched and the use of robots in the agri-food sector. In the “Foodhall” you will discover sustainable innovation in health food, fresh food chains and biobased products. “Unifarm” facilitates and supervises the cultivation part of plant and crop research. “AlgaePARC” is a large multidisciplinary research program which integrates the entire microalgae and cyanobacteria process chain. You will also visit the “ISRIC World soil museum”, the only museum with a collection of soil profiles that covers the entire globe.

Discover this and much more during the second Global Future Farming Summit and Experience Tour!

See: https://www.globalfuturefarming.nl/registration/


Farm Progress Tech Forum: Insight, strategy, precision for profitable farming

27 - 28 November - Coralville, Iowa
- Move your precision ag skills ahead with the Farm Progress Tech Forum.
- Join farmers from across the nation to learn about the latest ag technology and practices.
- You will learn key information to help you make critical management and production decisions today and for the future of your farm.
See: https://www.farmprogresstechforum.com/en/Schedule1.html

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Séminaires

Modelia / Afia

>>> Journée Internet des Objets (IoT) en agriculture – le 28 avril 2017 à Boigneville
Voir : http://www.numerique.acta.asso.fr/iot_agriculture28avril2017/


>>> Robotisation en agriculture : états des lieux et évolution
(séance publique de l'Académie d'agriculture de France du 25 janvier 2017)
Voir :
http://academie-agriculture.fr/actualites/academie/seance/academie/robotisation-en-agriculture-etats-des-lieux-et-evolution?250117


>>> Réseaux sociaux et Agriculture
(séance publique de l'Académie d'agriculture de France du 23 mars 2016)
Voir : http://www.academie-agriculture.fr/seances/reseaux-sociaux-et-agriculture?230316

>>> Big Data et Agriculture (10 mars 2016)
Voir : http://www.informatique-agricole.org/actes-du-seminaire-big-data-du-10-mars-2016/

>>>
API Agro (10 février 2016)
La conférence "API-AGRO", organisée par l'Acta, a rassemblé plus de 150 personnes autour des API et de l'Agriculture Numérique... Revivez la conférence organisée par les partenaires du projet.
Voir : http://www.api-agro.fr/actes-conference/


>>> Réseaux sociaux et Agriculture (19 juin 2015)
Voir : http://www.informatique-agricole.org/base-documentaire/afia-colloque/2015_-_reseaux-sociaux/#wpfb-cat-87

>>> Open Data en Agriculture - 2ème partie (7 janvier 2015)
Voir : http://www.modelia.org/moodle/course/view.php?id=63


>>> Les nouveaux capteurs en Agriculture (19 avril 2014)
Voir : http://www.informatique-agricole.org/colloques-afia/afia-colloque/2014_-_capteurs/#wpfb-cat-5


>>> Open Data en Agriculture - 1ère partie : état des lieux et perspectives (12 novembre 2013)
Voir : http://www.modelia.org/moodle/course/view.php?id=63

>>> La modélisation entre recherche et développement agricole, allers et retours... Des modèles scientifiques aux outils logiciels : ambitions, expériences, réflexions, propriété intellectuelle (29 mars 2013)

Voir :
http://www.modelia.org/moodle/course/view.php?id=35


Contact : Jean-Pierre CHANET, François BRUN
Mél : jean-pierre.chanet(a)irstea.fr, francois.brun(a)acta.asso.fr


How The Internet Of Things Could Help Feed The World by Lorin Fries

See: https://www.forbes.com/sites/lorinfries/2018/08/19/how-the-internet-of-things-could-help-feed-the-world/


There's Never Been A Better Time To Be Part of The Global AgTech Community by Connie Bowen

Agriculture is THE world’s largest industry. Period. According to World Wildlife Fund, it employs more than 1 billion people and generates $1.3 trillion dollars worth of food. Agriculture faces perhaps the most challenges moving forward, but it also offers the most potential for innovation to address these global challenges. Agtech investment is exciting today, and it’s only going to continue to grow.

Arama Kukutai of Finistere believes that ”As the ramifications of climate change become more pronounced and threaten not just farmer income but food security globally, the agtech investment community will rally behind the innovators who can best support the effort to combat the effects of climate change.”
See: https://www-forbes-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.forbes.com/sites/conniebowen/2018/08/07/theres-never-been-a-better-time-to-be-part-of-the-global-agtech-community/amp/

 


The Precision Ag Corner (in New Ag International)

> Data Management in Precision Ag. & Precision Ag for Africa
See: https://newaginternational.r.worldssl.net/images/PA/PrecisionAg_June18.pdf

> Coloured maps in PA
See: https://newaginternational.r.worldssl.net/images/PrecisionAg_March2018.pdf

> What do sensors tell us about crops?
See: https://newaginternational.r.worldssl.net/images/flipbooks/PA-NovDec2017-LR-20N.pdf

> When Datanomics meet Agronomics. Report from the New Ag International Conference in Berlin
See: https://newaginternational.r.worldssl.net/images/flipbooks/NewAgJuneJuly2017PrecisionAgCorner.pdf

> Purpose and applications of geolocation/navigation capabilities
See: https://newaginternational.r.worldssl.net/images/PA/PrecisionFarming.pdf

> Precision Agriculture: What's behind the name?
See: https://newaginternational.r.worldssl.net/images/PA/WhatsBehind_theName.pdf


Ecommerce, Genomics, Crop Intelligence: Opportunities for Colombia’s Agtech Entrepreneurs

See: https://agfundernews.com/ecommerce-genomics-crop-intelligence-opportunities-for-colombias-agtech-entrepreneurs.html


Is St. Louis the Silicon Valley of Agtech? (November 2017) by Louisa Burwood-Taylor and Emma Cosgrove

See: https://agfundernews.com/stlouis-silicon-valley-for-agtech.html

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Epidemiologists Link DDT From The 1970s To Modern Autism Diagnoses, by Hank Campbell

DDT was banned by a politician in the US in 1972 and was banned a few years later in Finland, so how can it be causing autism now?

The answer is statistics. The same curve that can show autism is linked to organic food can link autism to anything and if you are at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health you are very much against corporations and in need of a way to get in the New York Times, so a recent paper links DDE, a metabolite of DDT, in the blood of pregnant women to autism.
.../...

See: https://www.science20.com/hank_campbell/epidemiologists_link_ddt_from_the_1970s_to_modern_autism_diagnoses-233771


Funny false statistics as an "example" of wrong correlation

Enough of the bee-apocalypse stories (Jacqueline Rowarth, NZ)

See: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12108166


The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation

See: https://xerces.org/


Anti-livestock rhetoric in wealthy west impacts poor nations by Susan MacMillan

See: https://allianceforscience.cornell.edu/blog/2018/07/anti-livestock-rhetoric-wealthy-west-impacts-poor-nations/


The Washington Post's Mensa Invitational once again invited readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition.

Here are the winners:

1. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period of time.

2. Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an asshole.

3. Intaxicaton: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.

4. Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.

5. Bozone (n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.

6. Caterpallor (n.): The color you turn after finding half a worm in the fruit you're eating.

7. Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.

8. Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.

9. Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.

10. Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease.
(This one got extra credit.)

11. Karmageddon: It's like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's like, a serious bummer.

12. Decafalon (n): The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.

13. Glibido: All talk and no action.

14. Dopeler Effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.

15. Arachnoleptic Fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after you've accidentally walked through a spider web.

16. Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.


Next Efita
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in Greece in 2019!

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E-mail: michael.clasen(a)hs-hannover.de


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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
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