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EFITA newsletter / 871 - European Federation for Information Technology in Agriculture, Food and the Environment
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Viva Technology avec "Le Village by CA" (CA: French Ag Bank)
16 - 18 May 2019 - PARIS
Le Village by CA is a unique ecosystem where startups and large groups cooperate to innovate together. Present throughout France and abroad, this network contributes to the economic development and support of young innovative projects.
Our core value focuses on the creation of wealth in our regions.
We firmly believe that tomorrow’s economic drivers and champions of industry are created by the synergy of start-ups and local contributors to innovation.
Our objective is to provide start-ups with the same opportunities for success, no matter where they are from in France. We also aim to promote and support entrepreneurship beyond our own borders, so that projects anchored in our regions can resonate around the world.
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Viva Technology
16-18 May 2019 PARIS
Startups, Corporates, Investors: 3 days to gather and accelerate your business
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paysanne à la fourche : Dessin de Julien Dupré.
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2019 AgFunder AgriFood Tech Innovation Awards Winners Announced
The winners of the 2019 AgFunder AgriFood Tech Innovation Awards were announced on Wednesday, March 20 at the ReThink Innovation Week in San Francisco, CA.
Last year, we awarded 12 startups in 12 categories across Farm Tech, Supply Chain, and Retail & Consumer Innovation. Since then those winners have raised over $420 million, including a $114 million bridge round for Impossible Foods and a $13 million Series A for Trace Genomics, which AgFunder went on to invest in.
This year we followed the same process as last, whereby we asked you to vote for the winner in each category. The shortlist was nominated by this year’s awards committee, a who’s who of agrifood tech venture capital. Roughly 3,000 votes later, these are the winners.
See AgFunderNews
Israel AgriFood Tech Startups Raise $759m in Five Years New report!
AgFunder and Start–Up Nation Central have released the Israel AgriFood Tech Investing Report 2014-2018. The report reveals $759 million of venture capital investments into Israel’s AgriFood tech sector over five years — an ecosystem that includes nearly 700 startup companies.
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The future of farming is sustainable and connected (video / SIMA / Paris 2019)
Agriculture is a difficult business involving a lot of different aspects such as the quality of the food, the environment and the economic situation of the farmers.
To help farmers overcome those challenges, agricultural machinery manufacturers, like Case IH, adapt their product offering towards digital solutions, automated machines and alternative fuels.
Euractiv was at the SIMA fair, a biannual agricultural farm machinery show in Paris, to learn more about the technologies available and their benefits for farmers and for the environment.
See euractiv.com
Farmers turn to drones, robots and apps as tech sector realises where there’s muck there’s brass
See telegraph.co.uk
Organic farming improved but still flaws with traceability, EU auditors find
Despite improvements in the control of organic farming, the European Court of Auditors (ECA) said more work is needed to prevent food fraud and ensure that organic standards are met, as traceability is causing continued issues for foodstuffs bearing the bio label.
See euractiv.com
French Agritech Map – 2nd edition
DeHaat Raises $4m Seed Round from Omnivore & AgFunder to Bring
Indian Farmers Out of Poverty
DeHaat, an Indian agribusiness marketplace and supply chain technology,
has raised Rs29 crore ($4 million) in seed funding from leading Indian
agrifood tech venture firm Omnivore and online venture capital platform
AgFunder
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Let’s Get the Facts Straight about Livestock’s Carbon Footprint
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In this article, we want to lay out the facts and offer a different perspective
on the impact of livestock farming on the environment by including information
about the science behind the data on greenhouse gas emissions, the unintended
consequences of quitting meat, and the differences in methods of meat
production. Believe it or not, some meat production can actually be beneficial
to the environment and sequester carbon!
We also hope to bring some realism to the conundrum that is reducing humanity’s
negative impact on the environment; it’s going to take a lot more than
purely reducing meat and dairy consumption.
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Dr. Mitloehner’s 2010 critique revealed that the UN researchers used two
different methodologies for evaluating the emissions associated with livestock
production and transportation emissions. This led to disproportionate
and inaccurate conclusions.
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Rural Life in the past Was a Battle for Survival, By Marian L. Tupy (But Alençon is not in Alsace region but in Normandy)
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Before industrialisation, European society was bifurcated between a small minority of the very rich and the vast majority of the very poor. Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban, a military engineer during the reign of Louis XIV, estimated that the French population consisted of 10 per cent rich, 50 per cent very poor (fort malaise), 30 per cent near beggars and 10 per cent beggars. Likewise, Francesco Guicciardini, an Italian historian and friend of Niccolò Machiavelli, wrote that “except for a few Grandees of the Kingdom [of Spain] who live with great sumptuousness, one gathers that the others live in great poverty”.
Indeed, a census taken in the Alencon area of the Alsace region in France at the end of the 17th century found that of the 410,000 inhabitants, 48,051 were beggars. That amounts to about 12 per cent of the population. “In Brittany, of a population of 1,655,000, there were 149,325 beggars, or about 9 per cent.” Out of the English population of 5.5 million at the time of Henry VIII, 1.3 million (i.e., nearly a quarter) were described as “cottagers and paupers”. By implication, rural cottagers and urban paupers were deemed to have shared similar standard of living. The vast majority of these wretches lived in the countryside.
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See humanprogress.org
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2019 Efita International Conference 27-29 June - RHODES - Greece The topics for the EFITA 2019 conference are detailed below within topic groups. Topic group 1: “Sensors” This topic group refers to the development or optimization of sensors and electronics for agricultural applications, such as field scouting and crop parameters monitoring. Particular sub-topics could be: - New sensors (optical, reflectance, etc.) - Wireless sensor networks - Image processing Agricultural robots are also within this topic, focusing on automation and control technologies to optimise robotic applications in agriculture. Particular sub-topics could be: - Scouting Robots - Action Robots - Machine embedded ICT tools Topic group 2: “Data” This topic group is related to all technologies and software that cure data mining, data warehousing, visualisation, knowledge extraction, big data management. Particular sub-topics could be: - Big data management - Data mining for agricultural information systems - Data visualisation - Data and Knowledge Management for extension services (with real examples) Other subjects within this topic are interoperability, semantics and knowledge management, such as: - Metadata and data standards in agriculture - Thesaurus management, Knowledge management - Ontologies for agriculture - Knowledge bases and Knowledge repository services - Web of Data, Linked Open Data Topic group 3: “Decision” This topic group is about modelling for simulation, prediction, crop management, design of ICT-intensive farming systems. Proposed sub-topics are: - Modelling and Simulation for agricultural production and farming systems - Weather prediction models for sustainable agricultural production - Multi-Agent systems Other “Decision” scientific work is about remote sensing, GIS technologies and spatial management of resources. It includes sub-topics such as: - Remote Sensing and GIS applications - Planning tools - Environmental information systems and Environmental management systems - ICT applications for natural resources management, including forestry - ICT applications for sustainable biomass production and use Finally, ICT applications regarding economical, organizational and business implications in agriculture are also used for business decision making. Such ICT tools are divided in: - Decision Support Systems for Agriculture - ICT applications for food chain and logistics - Traceability tools - ICT and business - Rural economies and ICT policies for rural development Topic group 4: “Action” This topic group is mainly about design of ICT applications for agriculture and sustainability focusing on precision and knowledge intensive agriculture. It includes sub-topics such as: - Computer tools for farming - Models of farming activity - Scientific computing applied to crop management -Expert systems in agriculture This topic group is also about web technologies and networking of actors all along the value chain of agriculture. It includes sub-topics such as: - On line farm services - Web applications (clients, devices, server-side) - Cloud computing applications - Social Networking, collaborative tools and crowdsourcing - Tools for e-agribusiness See efita2019 |
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