The Food Safety Intelligence Blog
Insights, resources and best practices on digital innovations for food risk prevention
What did 9 million scientific publications teach us?
On January 10th 1963, John F. Kennedy wrote in the foreword of a landmark report: “One of the major opportunities … lies in the improvement of our ability to communicate information about current research efforts and the results of past [...]
4 challenges that (almost) every digital agriculture project will face
Digital agriculture projects typically put in place software and hardware systems that perceive their environment through appropriate sensor devices, process the right variety and amount of environmental and historical data, and take actions that maximize the chances of successfully achieving [...]
Will small robots (and their AI algorithms) disrupt agriculture?
Last week, I was introduced to an amazing ag-tech startup that is commercialising a deceptively simple idea: small robots not big tractors. The Small Robot Company is building robots that will seed and care for each individual plant in your [...]
Reporting on the EIP-AGRI Workshop on Data Sharing
As the phrase “data is the new oil” becomes more and more popular, there is also much uncertainty about the impact of data governance and sharing models. There is a variety of sharing models that have different degrees of openness, [...]
Α short report from the RDA’s IGAD pre-meeting
The 9th Plenary Meeting of the Research Data Alliance (RDA) took place in Barcelona, Spain, from 5 to 7 April 2017. The RDA Plenary Meetings constitute a major event where more than 4000 members from 100 countries come together to [...]
VITIS Big Data Demonstrator @ Agricultural University of Athens
On February 20th 2017, we had the pleasure to host a workshop at the premises of the Agricultural University of Athens (AUA), co-organized together with the colleagues from the Laboratory of Viticulture. Delegates from the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), [...]
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 [...]