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 Châtenay-Malabry (FR - 92290), April 6, 2020 EFITA newsletter / 924 - 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. Statistics about the previous issue of the efita newsletter dated March 20, 2020 How we saw the future yesterday?
Will Covid-19 make us more European? By Gabriel Waksman See europeanscientist.com Eco-fundamentalism, Governance, Precautionary principle, Risk school, Risk-monger… COVID-19: A Failure in Risk Management, by Risk-Monger on March 20, 2020 When a train crashes, authorities are on the scene to determine the cause. The COVID-19 coronavirus is fast becoming a global train wreck and unless we quickly assess the mistakes leading up to this tragedy, more trains will pile into the station. The longer the Risk-Monger gets in the tooth, the more global mass panic events he has witnessed. Every crisis is a learning opportunity and as I had written in mid-February, COVID-19, the Wuhan-originated coronavirus, has created a rich pedagogic environment. Lessons are, unsurprisingly, being learnt the hard way with more mistakes sending the public health situation deeper into disaster. Worse, as our communications methods move from an expert-based model to a bottom-up citizen-based community model, our friends on social media become our main source of information. .../... See risk-monger.com Good old days (?????): Les travailleurs aux champs, par Camille Pissarro (1896 - 1897)
Cultivating Agtech Leadership for Established Row Crop Leaders The wave of agtech has frequently been reported. Investor and entrepreneur visions for disruptive on-farm and transactional products and services are easily discovered. Not so commonly available, and in our view as the Illinois Soybean Association (ISA) checkoff program, one of the drags on successful agtech innovation is the under-representation of the producers’ voice. See agfundernews.com 59: Agri-Tech Innovation with Vonnie Estes, PMA’s VP of Technology See agfundernews.com 5 Things Vonnie Estes Saw at World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit This Week in San Francisco The World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit has exploded in attendance and scope over the years I’ve attended. This year over 1,200 eager attendees and a multitude of star-studded panels met in San Francisco, almost doubling attendance in 2018. See agfundernews.com
Deep learning: Artificial brains for hire Robovision develops and hires out artificial ‘brains’. These make it very easy for companies to automate complex production systems and machinery, such as a combine harvester. We spoke to Jonathan Berte, the (human!) brain behind the Belgian company Robovision. See futurefarming.com N-Drip provides alternative to flood irrigation N-Drip combines flood irrigation with the high yields and precision of conventional drip systems See futurefarming.com Crop productivity estimated in real time Scientists have developed a new, scalable method for estimating crop productivity in real time. See futurefarming.com Good old days (?????): Peasant Woman Binding Sheaves (after Millet), , by Vincent van Gogh - Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)
International Society of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy – ISAC : rejet de l'article du Pr. Raoult ISAC shares the concerns regarding the above article published recently in the International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents (IJAA). The ISAC Board believes the article does not meet the Society’s expected standard, especially relating to the lack of better explanations of the inclusion criteria and the triage of patients to ensure patient safety. See isac.world What our leaders can do now, by Bill Gates, Co-chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation In 2015, I urged world leaders in a TED talk to prepare for a pandemic the same way they prepare for war—by running simulations to find the cracks in the system. As we’ve seen this year, we have a long way to go. But I still believe that if we make the right decisions now, informed by science, data, and experience of medical professionals, we can save lives and get the country back to work. See Bill Gates The next outbreak? We're not ready (2015) See Bill Gates Good old days (?????): Peasant Woman Cutting Straw, after Millet, by Vincent van Gogh - Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)
An open-source respirator for 40 Euros – from a 3D printer See europeanscientist.com
Tom Hanks actor Tom Hanks survived 4 years on an island as a castaway. He spent a year in an airport without being able to leave Caught AIDS in Philadelphia. He was in World War II ad rescued Private Ryan. He went to Vietnam and rescued Lieutenant Dan. Was on a boat kidnapped by Somali pirates Survived Apollo 13 trying to reach the Moon. Landed a Boeing on the Hudson River. If that son of a bitch dies of coronavirus, we are ALL screwed!!! Good old days (?????): The Diggers by Jean-Francois Millet, c. 1850-55
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