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Châtenay-Malabry (FR - 92290), 26 November 2018 EFITA newsletter / 853 - European Federation for Information Technology in Agriculture, Food and the Environment To unsubscribe this newsletter, please contact me directely: guy.waksman(a)laposte.net Please note that I changed the presentation of the links that are embedded in the name of the web service. To correspond with me (GW), please use this address: guy.waksman(a)laposte.net To subscribe the efita newsletter (please ask your friends and colleagues to test this link) Efita Newsletters subscription Weekly newsletters about ICT in Agriculture in English and French Both newsletters have around 14000 subscribers. >>> Last weekly EFITA Newsletters in English (created in 1999) Efita Newsletters >>> Last weekly AFIA Newsletters in French (created 20 years ago in 1997) Afia Newsletters Around 15% of subscribers have a look on these newsletters. A rather normal rate… The archive for the last years are available on the AFIA web site.
Farmer2farmer IV: take control! 12-14 December 2018 – OMAHA See farmer2farmer.ag https://www.farmer2farmer.ag/ Farm Futures Ag Finance Boot Camp 2019 23 January 2019 - Marriott Hotel and Conference Center, Coralville, Iowa One day workshop packed with sessions presented by savvy ag finance experts and lenders Big Picture Topics: - How accrual transactions affect income statements - How to measure business performance using ratio analysis - How to find and use financial resources to improve your business performance - How to get what you want when working with lenders and accountants The Farm Futures Ag Finance Boot Camp will help you boost your financial recordkeeping skills for improved farm business management. See farmfuturessummit.com https://www.farmfuturessummit.com/en/ag-finance-boot-camp.html
Why Blockchain is Hard, by Jimmy Song The hype around blockchain is massive. To hear the blockchain hype train tell it, blockchain will now... Blockchain is a popular term these days and unfortunately, this “blockchain not Bitcoin” meme won’t die. If you are a centralized service, a blockchain doesn’t get you anything that you can’t do a thousand times cheaper with a centralized database. If you are a decentralized service, then you’re probably fooling yourself and not thinking about the single points of failure that exist in your system. There wouldn’t be a “you” at all in a truly decentralized service. See medium.com https://medium.com/@jimmysong/why-blockchain-is-hard-60416ea4c5c Clear Labs Raises $21m in Series B-2 Funding to Make Food Safety Testing Quicker and Cheaper Clear Labs, a Californian startup using next-generation sequencing (NGS) to test food for dangerous pathogens like Salmonella, has raised $21 million in an extension to its Series B round. See agfundernews.com https://agfundernews.com/clear-labs-raises-21m-in-series-b-2-funding-to-make-food-safety-testing-quicker-and-cheaper.html/ See clearlabs.com https://www.clearlabs.com/ Ignitia Raises $1.1m Series A to Expand Tropical Weather Forecasting Service to Smallscale Farmers in Nigeria See ignitia.se http://www.ignitia.se/ See agfundernews.com https://agfundernews.com/ignitia-raises-1-1m-series-a-to-expand-tropical-weather-forecasting-service-to-smallscale-farmers-in-nigeria.html/ Food Delivery Startups Might be Boring, But They’ve Returned 7x in Europe in 5 Years See agfundernews.com https://agfundernews.com/food-delivery-startups-might-be-boring-but-theyve-returned-7x-in-europe-in-5-years.html/ £500m UK AgriTech Cluster Gets Top Political Backing Leading British politicians and AgriTech industry representatives met in the House of Commons in London this week to focus attention on the development of a £500 million ($650 million) AgriTech Cluster, to be located on the edge of the university town of Cambridge, in the UK. See agfundernews.com https://agfundernews.com/500m-uk-agritech-cluster-gets-top-political-backing.html/
The Chicken And The Egg: Stop Linear Farming And Embrace Circular Agriculture See Forbes.com https://www.forbes.com/sites/ashoka/2018/10/23/the-chicken-and-the-egg-stop-linear-farming-and-embrace-circular-agriculture/#6b99f7477eb1 Provenir is Bringing Butchering to the Farm and Improving Meat Traceability See agfundernews.com https://agfundernews.com/provenir-is-bringing-butchering-to-the-farm-and-improving-meat-traceability.htmlulouse/
Steven Pinker: “Los populistas están en el lado oscuro de la historia” Es una de las grandes figuras de la psicología cognitiva y un especialista en el binomio mente-lenguaje. Dialéctico incansable e innegociable, su nuevo libro, ‘En defensa de la Ilustración’, vuelve a cargar contra los profesionales del apocalipsis. Contra los irredentos de “el mundo va cada día peor y solo nosotros podemos salvarlo”. Hombre de ciencia y de pensamiento, el catedrático de Harvard ajusta cuentas con los populistas y con los enemigos del progreso. Ver El Pais https://elpais.com/elpais/2018/06/07/eps/1528366679_426068.html Why suicide is falling around the world, and how to bring it down more Urbanisation, fewer forced marriages and more curbs on the means of self-destruction... Around the world, suicide rates are falling as a result of urbanisation, greater freedom and some helpful policies. America is the notable exception: since 2000, its suicide rate has risen by 18%, compared with a 29% drop in the world as a whole. It could learn from the progress made elsewhere, and more lives could be saved globally with better health services, labour-market policies and curbs on booze, guns, pesticides and pills. …/.. The suicide rate in America is up by 18% since 2000. This is not merely a tragedy; it matters politically, too. The rise is largely among white, middle-aged, poorly educated men in areas that were left behind by booms and crushed by busts. …/… See economist.com https://www.economist.com/leaders/2018/11/24/why-suicide-is-falling-around-the-world-and-how-to-bring-it-down-more American dietary preferences are split across party lines (Funny) See economist.com http://www.economist.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/800-width/20181124_WOC821.png
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