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Two Kerry initiatives helping double employment in AgTech
AgriTech Cluster wants to hear from companies in the sector who want to grow in the AgriTech space. Two projects funded by EU Project SmartAgriHubs are having a massive impact on the ground and showcasing Munster Technological University, Tralee, Kerry in Ireland, and its partners’ success in a drive to double the jobs potential of...
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FLIARA: Female Led Innovation in Agriculture and Rural Areas
Written by Maura Farrell, Louise Weir and Aisling Murtagh, University of Galway, Ireland. The FLIARA (Female-led Innovation in Agriculture and Rural Areas) project aims to create a European-wide ecosystem, which supports women-led innovative practices in farming and rural areas. This includes different types of rural women, inclusive of age, class, culture, race, and ethnicity who...
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Gender Task Force work set to continue as part of SmartAgriHubs legacy
Women make up 30 percent of the agricultural labour force in Europe and one in four farm managers are women. However according to participants in the Horizon 2020 funded SmartAgriHubs and DEMETER programmes, women face significant discrimination when it comes to accessing credit and financial backing as well as a voice when it comes to...
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Interview: Maria K Doula PhD, Research Director BPI, Greece
We asked Maria to tell us about her work in the Laboratory of Non-Parasitic Diseases, Soil Resources and Geoinformatics, her role in CypruSaves project, and her thoughts on the adoption of Smart Farming Technology by farmers. CAN YOU TELL US A BIT ABOUT YOUR ORGANISATION AND YOUR INVOLVEMENT IN THE OPEN CALL 2 (OC2) PILOT...
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My experience of conducting a PhD in agriculture
Grainne Dilleen is an Assistant Lecturer in Digital Marketing, South East Technological University, Ireland, and worked as Communication and Dissemination manager for DEMETER. Photo caption: Cheryl Baldwin and Grainne Dilleen at the 2021 .eu Web Awards My PhD journey started in South East Technological University, Ireland in late 2019, funded by the DEMETER project. It...
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The Agri-Innovation Development Midlands Project
A new collaboration between Smart Agri Hubs (SAH), an EU funded project in Walton Institute, South East Technological University (SETU) in Ireland, The Cube, and BloomHQ has brought about the successful Agri-Innovation Development Midlands (AIDM) project. The initiative aimed to provide support and training to the farming community in the midlands region of Ireland, helping...
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DEMETER Farmer Personas Workshop and Findings
This article was written by Ethan Cleary of the Irish Farmers’ Association Personas are a useful way to create representations of a set of target users for a product or service. In DEMETER, personas are used to help us better understand the different functional, social, and emotional characteristics and requirements of a widely diverse set...
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Looking back at DEMETER activities in 2022
DEMETER’s goal is to lead the digital transformation of Europe’s agri-food sector through the rapid adoption of advanced IoT technologies, data science and smart farming, ensuring its long-term viability and sustainability. We focus on interoperability as the main digital enabler. As DEMETER enters its final year, we look at back at 2022 and some of...
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DEMETER approach towards an agricultural interoperability space
The latest advances of technologies such as IoT, AI and Big Data, among others, have boosted the adoption of smart farming practices that emphasise the use of ICT in farm management processes to exploit the available data. This, however, has led to an explosion of smart farming solutions and data availability that brings new challenges...
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Integrated Pest Management Decisions platform is now ready to use
The Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Decisions platform provides access to a range of decision support systems (DSS) for integrated pest management that can be used across Europe. IPM and DSS are useful tools enabling farmers and advisors to improve the management of weeds, diseases and invertebrate pests of crops and this platform makes systems available...
