News
Trust and Transparency of Data in the agri-food supply chain with OriginTrail
This article is written by Trace Labs – Core developers of the OriginTrail Decentralized Knowledge Graph The increasing complexity of global supply chains, process optimization, strict legislation, growing customer awareness, and demand for food transparency all encouraged the involvement of advanced technologies for greater transparency of agri-food sector supply chains. This includes, among other things,...
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FAO The State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA) report launched
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has today (2nd Nov) launched its latest report – The State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA) 2022: Leveraging agricultural automation for transforming agrifood systems. At the launch of the event, Qu Dongyu, Director-General of FAO spoke about the need for automation with scale neutrality ensuring it...
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New blog – Interview with Cristina Cionga from Romanian Maize Growers Association
In this blog post we talk to Cristina Cionga from the Romanian Maize Growers Association, who recently organised their annual Maize Day event. This event showcases digital technologies and included the IoT Corn Decision Support Platform currently being used in one of the DEMETER pilots. Can you tell us about yourself and the APPR? The...
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The Importance of Farm Advisors in the roll out of Digital Technologies
Farm advisors are important actors in the roll out of digital technologies. Dr. Teresa Hooks of H2020 project FAIRshare discusses the farm advisors’ role and how the project is directly addressing the need to engage advisors. The advance of digital technologies has grown substantially in recent times and this has become even more apparent during...
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‘The incentives and barriers to farmers’ adoption of digital technologies’
Ambra Raggi, Policy Officer at World Farmers’ Organisation[1] Farmers are called to feed the world while immense pressures weigh on them: a growing world population, the fight against climate change, the urbanization and the loss of agricultural soils are just some of the challenges farmers face. The recent outbreak of COVID-19 adds additional pressure on...
Events
Digital Around the World Forum – A Global 24-hour Conference
For its 10th anniversary, the IoT Forum is launching a new 24 hours non-stop virtual conference that will roll over the World to run a quite unique event on emerging technologies and digital transformation. The event will bring together experts from all continents to present and discuss the latest technological innovations and trends in digital transformation:...
