The Food Safety Intelligence Blog
Useful information, insights, resources and best practices on innovative digital technologies and tools for becoming more efficient and cost-effective in food quality, safety and compliance tasks
Lessons learned from the Ontario Open Agri-Food Data meetup
As part of the Ontario Open Agri-Food Data meetup that we have co-organised in Canada earlier this year, we had the opportunity to meet with a range of academics from the University of Guelph and staff from Grey County to [...]
Agroknow visits Canada to talk about big data in farms
One of the fun things we did during our visit to Ontario this September was our meeting with Canada's first NSERC Industrial Research Chair for Colleges: Dr. Mike Duncan. With a specialization in Precision Agriculture and Environmental Technologies, the five-year [...]
European Policy Perspectives on Data-intensive Agriculture & Food
How do European officials working on agriculture and food topics deal with the emerging data revolution in the sector? How can they be aware of the recent developments in a way that may inform their thinking? And how can they [...]
A Common Data Ecosystem for Agriculture and Food
We believe that for a data revolution to happen, agriculture and food need a fabric of interoperable and interplaying infrastructure layers. Having such an infrastructure in place, will make data sharing and exchange as natural to us, as it is [...]
Participating in the 1st AgroHackathon in Montpellier
Two months ago the 1st AgroHackathon caught the eye of the Agroknow team, and of course the initial reaction was: “Agroknow should definitely be a part of such an event organized for the first time, worldwide!”. Of course we could [...]
Crete, London, Sofia: from data-powered ideas to a data ecosystem revolution
From Crete, to London, to Sofia. I feel that during the past 30 days, some tectonic movements took place in our area of work. Our Open Harvest came first, assembling and connecting 30 handpicked experts from around the world. Offering them an oportunity and [...]
Harvesting open ideas from great minds: Open Harvest 2016
The time has come again to open our home to the world. To invite good colleagues and friends, but to also welcome new people that we are meeting for the first time. To organise and host a special event, a [...]
Seven months of a re-vamped FAO AGRIS service: what’s next?
One of the major things that happened in Agroknow last year, was the introduction of a brand new service for supporting the data processing workflows of FAO’s AGRIS. Following a strategic partnership that was introduced in September 2014 by the [...]
“I do big data for the food & beverage industry” – OK, but for which problem?
I was reading through the 2013 report on “Formula for growth: Innovation, big data and analytics” that the US Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) and Deloitte Consulting L.L.P. produced. This is a very interesting report, since it outlines the opportunities big [...]