Châtenay-Malabry (FR - 92290), 10 September 2018
EFITA newsletter / 843 - European Federation for Information Technology
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The latest Future Farming magazine is now available for you to read!
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USDA updates farm program website
USDA adds new tools and resources to its farmers.gov website to aid producers.
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How Agtech Has Quietly Transformed Agriculture During the Downturn
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Ceres Imaging, a remote sensing startup using multi-spectral imaging...
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Study on data sharing between companies in Europe
B2B data sharing and re-use can be generally understood as making data available to or accessing data from other companies for business purposes. As detailed in this report, data sharing in a business-to-business context can take different forms: from unilateral to more collaborative approaches, data can be shared against a payment, through the provision of a service, or for free.
Based on evidence gathered in this study, companies share and re-use data among them to enhance their business opportunities and improve internal efficiency. B2B data sharing and re-use are expected to significantly grow in a near future. Companies not yet engaged recognise the benefits of these activities and express their intention to start sharing and re-using data in the next five years.
This study also found that companies that do not invest a critical amount of money in accessing real-time or positioning data may be missing business opportunities.
To foster the European data economy, the Commission should further develop and raise awareness about the concept of B2B data sharing and its benefits, privilege soft policy measures over restrictive regulations, and provide guidance and financial support to companies that are interested in sharing and re-using data among them.
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Digitisation goes rural: The latest big revolution in farming, By Juan Javier Ríos
Digitisation and the use of big data are paving the way for agriculture, livestock and the agri-food sector to sow the seeds for a new future, as is already happening in other aspects of daily life.
The use of devices that collect information, send it for processing and aid the subsequent decision-making is a reality that must be embraced and that is allowing the countryside to shed its more traditional image. Bring on the digitisation and big data revolution.
Spain will soon have a tool that will further boost this process. This will take the form of the Agri-Food, Forestry and Rural Digital Agenda, which will be rolled out by the government before the end of the year.
It was promoted by the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Luis Planas, during the inauguration of the first edition of the Smart Agrifood Summit fair, which unveiled the latest in smart technology in the agricultural sector.
Planas hailed this initiative, launched by his predecessor, Isabel García Tejerina, and stressed that the Spanish agri-food sector is “clearly innovative, with an entrepreneurial spirit and the necessary drive to break into new markets and territories.”
Some of the most tangible headway has been made in irrigated agriculture. Investments have focused on this sector because precision and measurement technology is of the essence in a country like Spain, where droughts are recurrent. Digitisation and big data allow us to know how, when and how much to irrigate a crop, thereby minimising wastage and misuse of water.
One of these devices is Smart Irrigation, launched by the company Naandanjain and whose developer Manuel Gómez explains that it works by placing sensors in the plants and in the soil and by using the information collated, via algorithmic calculations, to determine the optimum irrigation in terms of quantity and time.
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Europe’s GM legislation is ‘outdated’, US says after Court ruling on gene editing, By Sarantis Michalopoulos - EURACTIV.com
US Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue has called a recent ruling by the European Court of Justice on new plant-breeding techniques (NPBTs) a ‘setback’ and said Washington is ready to help EU politicians make decisions based on scientific evidence.
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Farming’s ageing and negativity problem, by Pavla Hosnedlová - EURACTIV Czech Republic
Agriculture still has to face up to the fact that farmers are ageing and young farmers are not interested. The cause rests in the limited access to land, migration from the countryside to urban areas and the negative media image imposed on agriculture.
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Taming the Tech Monster by Guy Verhofstadt
Monopoly control over millions of people’s personal data, and over the flow of news and information online, poses a clear and present danger to the future of democracy. As the past few years of data breaches, hacks, and electoral sabotage make clear, the West urgently needs to develop a new model of digital governance.
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