Johannes Keizer gave a presentation at the AACCI annual meeting about the Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN) initiative. GODAN advocates that important agricultural and nutrition datasets should be considered global public goods and made openly available. Keizer discussed challenges like feeding 9 billion people and opportunities from data-driven science. Open data from sectors like genetics and farm management can generate trillions in value and support hundreds of businesses. GODAN addresses issues around data rights, infrastructure, and gaps through working groups. Keizer encouraged organizations to become GODAN partners to help open data and influence the community.

1. Presentation at the AACCI annual
meeting
Savannah, 2016-10-23Johannes Keizer, GODAN Secretariat, FAO of the UN

2. • GODAN Secretariat
Partnerships Lead
• Team Leader at FAO for
open Access and open
Science
• Background: Pesticide
Chemistry
Johannes Keizer, PhDTHE PRESENTER
Johannes.keizer@godan.info

4. http://www.godan.info
GODAN advocates that
important datasets in
agriculture and nutrition
should be considered global
public goods and made be
available to everyone

5. ●Doubling food production
for feeding 9 billion
●Knowledge Economy
●Data Intensive Science
●Open Access
●Key words !!

6. Daunting challenges - impressive opportunities:
• The life science revolution is changing
our understanding of the fundamental
biology of plants, animals and people. It
is transforming agriculture.
• Information revolution approaches are
critically transforming the retail end of
food value chains- radical transparency.

7. “… research suggests that seven sectors alone could
generate more than $3 trillion a year in additional value
as a result of open data, which is already giving rise to
hundreds of entrepreneurial businesses and helping
established companies to segment markets …”
Source: McKinsey Global Institute
"Making these data public will allow people to
make their own assessments of the progress of
our Good Growth Plan. It is also blurring the
traditional roles of business, government and
NGOs by highlighting our collective
responsibility to address acute global
challenges. Above all, the data will be of value
to farmers, enabling them to increase
productivity sustainably and to enhance their
livelihoods."
"Open data has the power to solve our most
challenging sustainability problems. … Agri-
tech businesses have a big role to play in
finding novel solutions to these problems. …
Syngenta is taking a step that puts them at
the forefront of the open data movement in
their sector. We look forward to working with
them to unlock benefits for farmers and
consumers worldwide."
Mike Mack, CEO of Syngenta
(2015, for 1st GGP data release)
Jeni Tennison, Deputy CEO and CTO of
the Open Data Institute
There is Hype

8. Internet usage:
40% of global population
– 2.26 billion
Developing countries:
from 0-30% in 16 years
On linear trend, 100% in
just 22 years. Goal of
UN to have 50% by
2015. Achieved 34%
Philippines ranked above
US in 2015
A game changer?

12. Data against death
• Discovering patterns of gene
expression during aging
• Craig Venter and others sift
through genomic data on a vast
scale
• Matching genetic expression
with physiologica patterns

13. Paradigm Shift for research
• In the past
– 80% data production, 20% data
evaluatio
• In the future
– 20% data production, 80% data
evaluation

14. If networked science is to reach its potential,
scientists will have to embrace and reward the open
sharing of all forms of scientific knowledge, not just
traditional journal publication.
Networked science must be open science.’
Michael Nielsen (OKI)

15. GENETICS
RESEARCH
Example

16. Data-driven breeding benefits from
sharing tools, standards, and best practices
AFS-CRPs

17. Digital recombination

18. New tools allow us to look in new places for sources
of variation – including wildlife
Comparative gene network
and sequence analysis allows
to ask new kinds of questions
about genomes – eg “what is
different about this (group of)
species compared to all other
mammals”
“traditional” linkage mapping requires crosses – so initial discovery is
limited to variants within a species
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19. Collaborating for Greater Genetic Gains
Vision of success
Crop and animal
breeding programs are
making step changes
in increasing genetic
gains of cultivars and
breeds delivered to
farmers in the
developing world.

20. GRAIN RESEARCH
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Example

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24. FARM MANAGEMENT
Example

25. Issue
Developing country
farmer
Developed country
farmer
Scale-appropriate mechanization Low or none High, precision ag
Inputs: seed, water, fertilizer
(quality, timeliness, access)
Unreliable Reliable
Labour (availability, cost, skill) Increasingly poor N/A
Outputs: yield/profit, markets
(amount, access)
High variability, poor
unit production
Low variability, high
unit production
Impact of changing climate High Low-moderate
Potential to adapt/agility Low High
Infrastructure, credit, insurance… Poor High
Key challenges of farmers in developing countries

26. A complementary bottom-up approach: Information from commercial fields - Taking advantage of modern information technologies !!!
Climate Soil Crop
management Productivity
/Quality
Site-specific
information
 Yield and quality
limiting factors
 favorable/unfavorable
Climatic patterns
 Optimal site-specific
management
practices
Massively exciting, transformational science
“The most magical aspect of big data is Smart Data: the
application of statistical analytics and machine learning to
data sets to find interesting connections and signals in all
the noise.” ”. Philip Brittan. http://tmsnrt.rs/1EmFXTT
Courtesy Andy Jarvis, CGIAR

27. Farm Management
Adrian Roles, Young, NSW, says big data
will have a big role to play in farm
management in the future.
http://www.farmweekly.com.au/
“For instance, one of the big drivers of yield
on my place is pH.”
“I invested in a pH mapper that is simply
fitted to my equipment and I have got the
pH map, which can help me with
management decisions.”
“Data sets like yield by variety by soil type
are playing a big role in helping me
determine my rotation.”

28. WHAT DOES OPEN
DATA MEAN?

30. THE FAIR PRINCIPLE
resources need to be
Findable
Accessible
Interoperable
Reusable
= FAIR
FAIR principle by Barend Mons, EC, EOSC

31. Data Issues
http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v43/n4/full/ng0411-281.html

32. Arguments Against
• “Open data are good only for the big
players”
• “Open data will create more data
monopolies”
• “Research data are only in a specific
context meaningful”

33. What is GODAN
• Advocacy
• Think Tank
• Knowledge Network

34. GODAN addresses Issues through
working groups
• i.e. data rights and responsibilities
• i.e. data infrastructure
• i.e. better technical, semantic and
legal interoperability
• i.e data gaps in nutrition

35. “I went through this Responsible Data in Agriculture brochure that’s
online and it strikes me how much it applies, in concrete terms, to
the data revolution that is part and parcel of the 2030 agenda for
sustainable development.” Thomas Gass, UN-DESA

37. 387 partners
15. October
8 Donors in the GODAN steering group

38. We want AACCI and
member organizations to
become GODAN partners!

39. It is worthwhile to become GODAN
partner !!!!!
We have to be thousands to make enough
pressure on opening data!
(list to be revised)
● Participate to discuss and resolve open
questions
● Learn from successes (and failures of others)
● Bring your issues to the broader community
● Become a GODAN champion and influence the
community
● Use the GODAN context to find new Grants for
open data

40. Join GODAN!
● Sign up means you agree to our principles
in our Statement of Purpose
http://www.godan.info/about/statement-of-
purpose/
● Easy to complete forms online
http://www.godan.info/partners/become-a-
godan-partner/
● Talk to us about how you can get involved in
our events, publications and working groups

41. www.godan.info