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
A scientific data engine for global food security: 3 challenges ahead
The world’s largest global agricultural innovation network. Bringing together the scientific power of 15 independent, non-profit research organizations. Amassing an annual investment of more than US$900 million devoted to global food security. Being the home of more than 11,000 scientists, [...]
Why Friday, the 23rd of November, is an important date for Open Science
What changes after the launch of the European Open Science Cloud and how this impacts our team Why is this event so important? On Friday the 23rd the first version of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) Portal will be [...]
What does a new Era mean for us
May 2018. In Crete, enjoying Open Harvest once more. Small groups of people, getting lost in secret corners of Chania’s medieval town. Learning about how you tell data stories, using only 6 words. My work-group is busy developing their own [...]
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), [...]