Big Data and the Food & Agriculture domain (vis-a-vis the respective H2020 Societal Challenge) - Opportunities, Challenges and Requirements. As presented and discussed in the public launch of the BigDataEurope project.

1. BIG DATA &
FOOD AND AGRICULTURE
Opportunities, Challenges and
Requirements
27/2/2015

2. our Societal Challenge
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3. topics of relevance in 2014-2015
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4. current WP: “data” spelled out
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5. current WP: “data” behind words
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6. relevant EC policy: open
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7. relevant other policies
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8. G8 Open Data Conference
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9. early adopters getting ready
 Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition
(http://www.godan.info)
 “…to support global efforts to make agricultural and
nutritionally relevant data available, accessible, and usable
for unrestricted use brings together all stakeholders to solve
long-standing global problems”
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10. policy making example: FADN
 Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN):
evaluating income of agricultural holdings &
the impacts of Common Agricultural Policy
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11. PPP example: GFSP
 Global Food Safety Partnership
(http://gfsp.org): scale up food
safety capacity building and
ensure that good and safe
practices can reach everyone that
is producing, processing and
selling food around the world
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12. new business examples
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13. an opportunity (?) ahead
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…should we be here after 2016?

14. what could we do?
 …offer domain-specific Data Management support &
recommendations to data owners? (or to running / upcoming
H2020 projects?)
 …facilitate aggregation, interlinking and mapping to foster
innovation and support decision making?
 …organise DG-specific workshops on domain-specific big
data opportunities & challenges?
 …incubate your domain-specific big data initiative or case
study?
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15. feel free to contact us
 Nikos Manouselis, Agro-Know
(nikosm@agroknow.gr)
 Valeria Pesce, FAO/GFAR
(Valeria.Pesce@fao.org)
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