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EFITA newsletter / 894 - European Federation for Information Technology in Agriculture, Food and the Environment
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A 360 vision of biostimulant, fertiliser, precision ag, irrigation and biocontrol developments in Africa- giving you the knowledge that you need to succeed
6 - 8 April 2020 - Marrakesh, Morocco
See New Ag International
Brazil’s Agrosmart raises $5.8m Series A for digital tool serving Coca-Cola & Cargill, by Joe Gan, feat Mariana Vasconcelos)
Snapshot: All about Agrosmart:
- Founded in 2014 and currently used across nine countries
- High profile clients include Cargill, Syngenta and Coca-Cola
- Uses AI to make agricultural predictions based on data from soil, weather conditions and crops
- Low barrier to usage, as it transmits data via satellite or lower-broadband 3G networks
Recently closed $5.8m Series A
See agfundernews.com
Why Fieldin stood out in crowded farm management software space, by Michael Dean
You’d be forgiven for finding the growing farm management software space overwhelming; there are now hundreds of different software tools for farmers across crop types globally and more every week. At AgFunder, we’ve reviewed many of them so it takes something special to capture our attention.
Meet Fieldin, a data analytics and decision software platform for the $25-plus billion specialty crop market.
See agfundernews.com
Good old days (???): Haying Time by Julien Dupré
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Swiss Future Farm
Sehen swissfuturefarm.ch
Ces start-up qui font bouger l’agriculture africaine
Les solutions numériques pour le secteur foisonnent dans l’est et dans l’ouest du continent. Reste à convaincre les investisseurs de sortir des sentiers battus.
Voir jeuneafrique.com
Togo : « e-agri », l’appli qui transforme le secteur agricole
La plateforme e-agribusiness, le grand succès de Edeh Dona Etchri, transforme peu à peu le paysage agricole du pays.
Voir jeuneafrique.com
La BAD mise sur les « agropoles » pour transformer l’agriculture africaine
Baptisé "Nourrir l'Afrique", le nouveau plan de la Banque africaine de développement (BAD) sur la période 2016-2025 se concentre sur le développement de 18 "chaînes de valeurs intégrées" sur le continent.
Voir jeuneafrique.com
La start-up africaine de la semaine : Hello Tractor, le Uber des agriculteurs nigérians
En 2007, il y avait moins de 25 000 tracteurs au Nigeria, selon les données de la Banque mondiale. Pour combler ce manque et accélérer la production agricole du pays, un entrepreneur américain a créé une start-up qui vend des tracteurs « intelligents ». Leur particularité ? Grâce à un système de géolocalisation, leurs propriétaires peuvent les louer aux agriculteurs qui en ont besoin.
Voir jeuneafrique.com
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Translating bulk-density change to economic impact
Veritas is investigating whether drone-tech can be used to measure losses from soil compaction.
See futurefarming.com
Arc GIS takes farms’ efficiency to industrial level
Esri, a worldwide leader on geographical information systems, allows integration of agronomic and business administration indexes within a single platform. Moreover, this solution is able to develop customised solutions for any kind of crop.
See futurefarming.com
Use of drones in biological pest control increasing
According to BayWa the use of drones in biological pest control, particular in corn, is increasing.
See futurefarming.com
Harvesting sugar cane more efficiently with AI and IoT
Harvesting and transportation accounts for one third of the total production costs of sugar from sugar cane. To be more efficient, Bevap brought artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things into this process. This resulted in 8% increased efficiency representing € 150 million.
See futurefarming.com
Ag Leader CartACE assists grain cart operator
Ag Leader introduces CartACE, which gives grain cart operators assistance while unloading on-the-go.
See futurefarming.com
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How to pitch like a pro?
Applications for the evokeAG. 2020 Startup Program are open. This is an incredible opportunity for startups who are solving a solution in our agriculture sector to showcase their products, solutions and technologies at the Asia Pacific’s largest agrifood tech event – evokeAG.. To capitalise on this unique opportunity, the team behind the evokeAG. event have called on three of our nation’s leading innovators and champions for entrepreneurship to discuss what makes a stellar pitch – whether it’s for an application, for new customers or new investment.
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Bon vieux temps : la faneuse (?) par Julien Dupré
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The “eat less meat” movement is growing. Does it distort science?
Why ranches, cattle, and meat-eating may play a role in fighting climate change.
See newfoodeconomy.org
As the Amazon burns, cattle ranchers are blamed. But it’s complicated
After working in the Amazon for more than 20 years, a National Geographic photographer questions who is responsible for the fires and deforestation.
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We should stop eating beef—particularly Brazilian beef. We need to urgently and drastically reduce the pressure on the Amazon before it reaches a tipping point. But what would happen to families like Dino’s if we did that? We can’t and shouldn’t avoid these questions as real people’s lives are at stake; and like it or not these people are also people of the rainforest now. The more we cast the problem as good guys against bad guys the more we indulge in thinking and that achieves nothing, other than to push people and problems further from solution.
The problems the Amazon faces are perhaps starker now than ever before. They are myriad and complex. But they are curable. What we need to do now is decide where and how we appoint and apply values based on sensible economic models that favor both the rancher and the forest. One of the issues facing the Brazilian Amazon now is a loosening of regulations by the current administration which has opened up more land for deforestation and burning. This could be catastrophic, both for the Amazon and the rest of the world
See nationalgeographic.com
(Excellent) NewAGinternational newspaper
See newaginternational.com
(Interesting) FAO Agroecology Newsletter - August 2019 / Issue #26
See fao.org
About "Scientists isolate drought-resistant gene in barley" (see last issue of this newsletter)
A friend of mine is explaining: a similar gene has been identified by Monsanto in the corn genome but the word “resistant” is misleading and should NOT be used.
Monsanto launched this new corn-tolerant seed variety in the US a few years ago in a very drought-stricken year: yields were 20% to 30% higher than for the other seedcorn varieties, planted that year, but still 30% to 50% lower than in a normal year! So far, no one has found totally “resistant” genes. One should refer to “isolate drought-tolerant gene”. “Tolerance” will vary from gene to gene.
Bayer says it disagrees with German government's decision to ban glyphosate
See reuters.com
Did President Trump think about that?
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Global Warming and Scottish people
In Scotland we have mixed feelings about Global Warming. Because we all get to sit on the mountains and watch the English drown.
Frankie BOYLE (Irish humourist, 1972 -)
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