Can Europe lead a data
revolution in agriculture &
food?

>30 million USD investment

what is the EU investment?
• …in agriculture & food R&D?
• …in digital farming?
• …in big/open data & analytics for agriculture &
food?
What is the role of Europe in this market?

We believe that we can.
1) a unique culture of collaboration, as well as
making different infrastructures working together
2) doing some of the world's best agri-food research
(maybe not the same in big data research)
3) already deployed an open, shared, common data
infrastructure for publicly funded science and its
outputs

Where can Europe lead? (1/2)
• Facilitating the alignment of public &
private private sector
–how different data infrastructures can
interplay & interoperate to support an
emerging data ecosystem for agriculture
and food
–Open Harvest, GODAN WG, a Policy
Consultation group to shape the agenda

Where can Europe lead? (2/2)
• Coordinating & investing into the public
part of the scientific data infrastructure
–AGINFRA for certified, domain-specific
cloud, data, tech resources and services in
the European Science Cloud (EOSC)
marketplace
–e-ROSA to engage the community &
develop a roadmap for the future

ideally
• ...to help unlock the potential of the
sector and get the different global
players together & aligned

For more:
http://blog.agroknow.com/?p=5269
nikosm@agroknow.com