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Châtenay-Malabry (FR - 92290), 24 June 2019 EFITA newsletter / 883 - European Federation for Information Technology in Agriculture, Food and the Environment To unsubscribe this newsletter, please contact me directely: guy.waksman(a)laposte.net if this link Unsubscribe does not work. 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.
Audience Efita Newsletter - 882 dated June 17, 2019 See efita For your next visit to Paris Each colored square: one subway station. Click on a square to see images of the neighborhood of the station (today and one century ago). See Paris Contact: Luc BECKER E-mail: luc.becker(a)wanadoo.fr The 2019 World Food Prize See Simon N. Groot of the Netherlands Why Blockchain is Hard, by Thomas Bradstreet In a sense, current conceptions of blockchain are trying to do the impossible. They want the security of a decentralized system with the control of a centralized one. The desire is the best of both worlds, but what they end up getting is the worst of both worlds. You get the costs and difficulty of a decentralized system with the failure modes of a centralized one. Blockchain is used way too much as a buzzword to sell a lot of useless snake oil. The faster we get rid of the hype, the better off long-term we’ll all be. Here’s How Technology Could Change Supermarkets in the Next 10 Years A new report predicts that technology will be a big player in the rapidly-transforming supermarket segment, including everything from streamlining back-end logistics to rendering checkout lines obsolete. See agfundernews.com A Guide to Germany’s Agtech Ecosystem: Government Support Belies Limited Investor Pool Germany, which ranked fourth for agri-foodtech investment in 2018, is better known for its food tech successes than agtech, but a $100m deal last week for vertical farming group infarm brought the country's agtech industry into focus. See agfundernews.com Brand independent GPS cheaper and easier to use The diversity in machinery on arable farms in Europe demands brand independent GPS and software systems, according to Dutch company Vantage Agrometius. See futurefarming.com See vantage-agrometius.nl
Australian farm robots to assist aging workforce The SwagBot and the more affordable option Digital Farmhand, both from Australian startup Agerris, are now being commercialised and will be available in Australia and overseas. See futurefarming.com² Spot farming uses mini robots at plant level The German Julius Kühn-Institut introduces a new way of arable farming: spot farming. See futurefarming.com Virginia Tech to build the farm of the future Virginia Tech is creating the SmartFarm Innovation Network, in order to build the farm of the future. See futurefarming.com Esri and AgIntegrated connect data from multiple sources Esri and AgIntegrated have partnered to make agricultural location intelligence more accessible for farmers. See futurefarming.com Isagri in Canada See Isagri
EU health chief warns of ‘new middle ages’ in attitudes to science by Eddy WAX For Vytenis Andriukaitis, the anti-glyphosate and anti-vax movements are part of the same trend. See politico.eu Old good days as seen by Julien Dupré
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