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EFITA newsletter / 883 - European Federation for Information Technology in Agriculture, Food and the Environment

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Audience Efita Newsletter - 882 dated June 17, 2019
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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).
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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.
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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
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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


Noman Borlaug: the man who helped feed the world by Tim Harford

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Happily for us, it turned out that Malthus had underestimated the fact that, as people get richer, they tend to want fewer children, so populations grow more slowly.

In fact, 1968 - the year that Paul Ehrlich made his dire predictions - was also the year in which global population growth began to slow. Annual growth has fallen from its 1968 peak of 2.09% to 1.09% in 2018.

Malthus and Ehrlich also both underestimated what Norman Borlaug represents: human ingenuity.

See bbc.com


Short Irish story

Reilly went to trial for armed robbery.

The jury foreman came out and announced, 'Not guilty.'

'That's grand!' shouted Reilly.

'Does that mean I can keep the money?'

Next Efita
Congress
in Greece in 2019!


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


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