Thomas Bartzanas talks about the importance of open data in the agri-food sector | OSFair2017 Workshop
Workshop title: The roadmap to better food: using ICT an open data to overcome barriers in the agriculture value chain
Workshop overview:
The session will discuss infrastructures for open science in the agri-food domain. It will also discuss the issue and the importance of open data for agricultural and agri-food communities and science.
Presentation abstract:
Half of the European Union's land is farmed. This fact alone highlights the importance of farming for the EU's economy, employment, energy use and environment. The globalization of markets has increased the competitiveness whereas the consumers’ needs for healthy, safe and locally produced products highlighting the need for high quality production.
According to Food Agriculture Organization (FAO) in the next 20 years world food production must increase by 50%, while 80% of that increase must come from intensification. However this vital and crucial sector for the European agriculture economy is a sector under pressure due to several challenges (world population, water shortage, climate change, use of pesticides and fertilizers, energy use, food safety).
Agricultural production systems, and the policies and institutions that underpin global food security, are increasingly inadequate. Modern IT and data analysis tools are powerful and can really help meet the challenge of feeding a growing population in more resource-efficient and sustainable ways. Smart farming presents a viable solution to such problems. However, as smart machines, automation systems, robots and sensors crop up on farms and farm data grow in quantity and scope, farming processes will become increasingly data driven and data-enabled.
Currently there are a lot of stakeholders involved in the data collection and management in agriculture (companies, organizations, public authorities, farmers). However the accessible on all these data is still questionable. In this context open data has become and should more widely used within the agricultural data environment. The context under which open data should be used and analyzed in agro-food sector is presented together with some so far success stories.
When: DAY 1 - PARALLEL SESSION 1
OSFair2017 Workshop | The importance of open data in the Agro-Food sector
1. The roadmap to better food: Using ICT and Open Data to Overcome Barriers in the Agriculture Value Chain, Athens 6 September 2017
http://itema.cereteth.gr/ Τεχνολογικό Πάρκο Θεσσαλίας, 1η ΒΙ.ΠΕ Βόλου
The importance of open data
in the Agro-Food sector
Thomas Bartzanas
Research Director Coordinator
Greek innovation Agro-Food platform
2. A vital economical sector for EU
the largest manufacturing
sector in Europe
With a turnover of 1,050 €
trillionin and employing 4
million people
a leading global exporter
The agro-food industry is
thus central to the wider,
economic development of
Europe as it develops over the
next decades
… a sector under pressure
New emerging economies,
(China, India & Brazil), are
seeing export growth
Over the last decade,
Europe's share of the global
food market has declined
from 24% to 20%.
Since Europe is increasingly
unable to compete on cost
alone, effective and rapid
innovation will be needed to
reverse this decline
The European Agriculture Industry
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The way forward: ”increased productivity in a sustainable manner”
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Towards a more smart farming model
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Smart Farming / Precision Farming
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Cycle of Smart
Farming
Big data in the cloud
Smart control
Smart analysis and
planning
Smart sensing and
monitoring
Arable
Robotics and
sensors
Seeding, Planting,
crop health, yiled
monitoring
Precision farming
Weather/climate
data, yield data,
market
information
Livestock
Biometric sensing,
GPS, tracking
Breeding
monitoring
Milk robots
Livestock
movements
Horticulture
Robotics and
sensors,
greenhouse
computers
Lighting, energy
management
Climate control
Weather/climate,
market
information
S.Wolfert et al. / Agricultural Systems 153 (2017) 69–80
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…. too much information….too much data
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One of the most promising routes to agriculture
modernisation is the provision of Open Data to all
interested parties
The use and wide
dissemination of these data
sets is strongly advocated by
a number of global and
national policy makers such
as:
The New Alliance for
Food Security and
Nutrition G-8 initiative
FAO of the UN
DEFRA & DFID in UK
USDA & USAID in the
US
In an era of Big Data, one of
the most promising routes to
achieve R&D excellence in
agriculture is Open Data, and
in particular:
provisioning,
maintaining,
enriching with relevant
metadata and
making openly available
a vast amount of open
agricultural data
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Open data is not always that useful ….
Messy data
Should be collected/fused
Should be filtered
Should be validated
Should be enriched with metadata to become
discoverable
Should be standardized to allow interoperability
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Data Sources
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Data sourcing and handling:
for the data consumer
Data
maintenance
Provenance
Provenance
Data
availability
Trusted
sources
GODAN. 2011. Statement of Purpose
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Data sourcing and handling:
for the data provider
Licensing
Dataset
issues
Data
structure
Data size and
speed
Security
GODAN. 2011. Statement of Purpose
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Sharing framework
Link data to other
data for context
Make data
referenceable
Ensure data is in non-
proprietary format
Make the data
structured
Make data
available
GODAN. 2011. Statement of Purpose
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FOODIE
Farm-Oriented Open Data in Europe, known simply as FOODIE, is an open data
initiative based in Europe with ambitions to help agriculture across the globe. It aims
to increase efficiency and open new opportunities for all involved in planning,
growing and delivering food to the market place.
BOER & BUNDER, Open data for farmers and plot development
In The Netherlands a web application has been launched that aims to improve
accessibility to open data, unlocking valuable information that can aid the work of
farmers and those involved in agriculture and the environment. Currently the have
1000 to 1500 daily users. The challenge they are facing is filtering all the existing
information and presenting it in ways that can be used and valued by the average
busy farmer
Success stories
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AGRIS, Domain, community and database on agricultural open data
AGRIS main objective is to improve access and exchange of information related to
agricultural research. AGRIS is not only technology and services, but also a
community. In total it presently offers 1.3 million links in full text and has data from
more than 150 partner organisations across the globe.
GLOBAL YIELD, Crop yield research
The Global Yield Gap Atlas has been set up to support efforts to achieve the highest
possible crop yields from existing farmland. The Atlas provides a range of
information, offering relevant data to policy makers, researchers and industry. The
current rate of yield increase for
major food crops is not fast enough to
meet demand on existing farmland
Success stories
http://www.godan.info/documents/godan-success-stories-issue-2
Find more success stories at:
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An integrated system for rational water use in agriculture
Success stories
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GODAN supports the proactive sharing of open data to make information about
agriculture and nutrition available, accessible and usable to deal with the urgent
challenge of ensuring world food security. It is a rapidly growing group, currently
with over 584 partners from national governments, non-governmental,
international and private sector organisations.
http://www.godan.info
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Instead of conclusions…….What more is needed….
GODAN. 2011. Statement of Purpose
Finding business models that provide incentives for various entities to collect and
share data.
Leading by example by providing open data sources. Syngenta has already done
this by publishing data about the results of its Good Growth Plan.
Encouraging data standards that make it easier to produce and share data. In
doing so, stakeholders will need to have reasonable expectations of how these
standards will be used.
Automating data collection. Automatically collected data is more likely to be
accurate and precise than data collected by hand.
Annotating datasets. Even automatically collected data cannot be used if it is not
described in a consistent and understandable way.
Following data sharing principles. The five-star maturity model and the FAIR
principles provide guidelines for creating and sharing data.
Using the data. All of the best data sharing efforts have little impact if the data is
not used in a productive way. Stakeholders must encourage a cottage industry of
data-backed apps that get the most value from datasets
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Thomas Bartzanas
Research Director, CERTH/iBo
bartzanas@ireteteth.certh.gr / thomas.bartzanas@gmail.com
Tel: 24210-96748 / Fax: 24210-96750
Hinweis der Redaktion
Earth population increased very fast, and all these people should be fed.
Precision agriculture aims to optimise the yield per unit of farming land by using the most modern means in a continuously sustainable way, to achieve best in terms of quality, quantity and financial return
Examples of Big Data applications/aspects in different Smart Farming processes
The development of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and sensor-based technologies, procedures and software has enormously increased the amount of data collected and data available in agricultural sectors and throughout the whole supply chain (from farm to fork). The appearance and adoption of biosensors, nanotechnology, low-cost electronics, the Internet of Things or remote sensing devices, among others, will further boost the data domain. This development offers significant potential for new data-driven business models