The “Club of Ossiach”, a group of agriculturists, agribusiness managers, agriculture technologists and agricultural ICT specialists from around the world, met at Ossiach between 17-19 June 2013 at the “AgriFuture Days” Conference. They reviewed current trends and
possible discontinuities resulting from political, social, environmental and technological changes, potentially impacting on the future of agriculture, farming, rural viability, food and nutrition worldwide.
Role of Extension in Agricultural Innovation Systems_Kristin Davis IFPRI-PIM
Presentation by Kristin Davis, executive secretary of the Global Forum for Rural Advisory Services (GFRAS) and research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) who coordinates PIM’s research on rural advisory services.
The climate-smart village : a model developed by CCAFS program to improve the adaptive capacity of communities
Presented by Dr Robert Zougmoré, Regional Program Leader, CCAFS West Africa. Africa Agriculture Science Week 6, 15 July 2013, Accra, Ghana. http://ccafs.cgiar.org/events/15/jul/2013/africa-agriculture-science-week-2013
Seoul | Jun-15 | Smart Villages Agenda & ConceptSmart Villages
Given by: Dr Terry van Gevelt
Our Seoul media workshop was a two-day residential event featuring a combination of background briefings from local and international experts and entrepreneurs on energy markets and developments in the South East Asian off-grid sector. The workshop offered an opportunity to explore the Smart Villages concept and study nascent Smart Village projects and relevant technologies from around the world.
Dhaka | Aug-15 | The Smart Village InitiativeSmart Villages
"As part of the series of regional engagements in South Asia, Smart Villages is organising a workshop on off-grid rural energy provision in Bangladesh. The country has the fastest growing programme in the world with an estimated 70,000 solar home systems (SHS) installed per day. More than 3 million SHS have been installed in off-grid rural areas in the country bringing electricity to an estimated 13 million people.
Dr John Holmes, Smart Village Initiative
The aim of the workshop is to gain insights from the experience of a wide variety of stakeholders in Bangladesh who are involved in rural off-grid energy provision in the country. This workshop will offer a number of potential lessons to other countries within the region. The workshop provides an opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of the opportunities presented by expansion of solar home systems (SHS) and mini-grids to off-grid rural communities and the challenges faced in this expansion. During this workshop we will also investigate the potential impact of energy access on rural livelihoods in the country.
The workshop is being jointly organised by Smart Villages and Practical Action."
Innovation platforms at work: Supporting the transition to agroecology in Nic...Katharina Schiller
Functional analysis of how an innovation platform helps to scale up the use of agroecological practices amongst smallholders farming basic grains in northern Nicaragua
3rd Africa Climate Smart Agriculture Alliance Forum
Implementing Climate-smart village (CSV) approach in West
Africa : Key achievements & lessons learned for CSA
upscaling
Presentation given by Dr. Mathieu Ouédraogo, CCAFS West Africa
This is a poster displaying the various climate-smart innovations that have been adopted by farmers in the Nyando climate-smart villages in Western Kenya.
New tools are being developed by Czech Living Lab WirelessInfo, which allow users to easily publish their data and metadata as part of a Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI). The paper describes the design of a Technological Infrastructure on the basis of ISO and OGC Standards and also the implementation of a prototype and first experiences. The solution is designed in distributed system form, which provides the connection to metadata about spatial data and services. This solution tests the principle of catalogue services at both national and international level which could be used in the UN SDI context. A catalogue portal is one of the independent components of GeoHosting complex system for raster and vector spatial data sharing. The catalogue portal provides data source searching on the basis of their metadata records through structure queries. The portal also contains edit functionality for new metadata records creating or editing. The metadata catalogue system corresponds to ISO 19115/19119/19139 standards [1], [2], [3], [4] and provides for cascade searching on the other standardized catalogue systems. The difference is, there exist different other initiatives offering publishing of own content like Google technology or OpenStreet Map, that GeoHosting is based fully on INSPIRE European standards and support establishing of network of distributed servers.
Role of Extension in Agricultural Innovation Systems_Kristin Davis IFPRI-PIM
Presentation by Kristin Davis, executive secretary of the Global Forum for Rural Advisory Services (GFRAS) and research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) who coordinates PIM’s research on rural advisory services.
The climate-smart village : a model developed by CCAFS program to improve the adaptive capacity of communities
Presented by Dr Robert Zougmoré, Regional Program Leader, CCAFS West Africa. Africa Agriculture Science Week 6, 15 July 2013, Accra, Ghana. http://ccafs.cgiar.org/events/15/jul/2013/africa-agriculture-science-week-2013
Seoul | Jun-15 | Smart Villages Agenda & ConceptSmart Villages
Given by: Dr Terry van Gevelt
Our Seoul media workshop was a two-day residential event featuring a combination of background briefings from local and international experts and entrepreneurs on energy markets and developments in the South East Asian off-grid sector. The workshop offered an opportunity to explore the Smart Villages concept and study nascent Smart Village projects and relevant technologies from around the world.
Dhaka | Aug-15 | The Smart Village InitiativeSmart Villages
"As part of the series of regional engagements in South Asia, Smart Villages is organising a workshop on off-grid rural energy provision in Bangladesh. The country has the fastest growing programme in the world with an estimated 70,000 solar home systems (SHS) installed per day. More than 3 million SHS have been installed in off-grid rural areas in the country bringing electricity to an estimated 13 million people.
Dr John Holmes, Smart Village Initiative
The aim of the workshop is to gain insights from the experience of a wide variety of stakeholders in Bangladesh who are involved in rural off-grid energy provision in the country. This workshop will offer a number of potential lessons to other countries within the region. The workshop provides an opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of the opportunities presented by expansion of solar home systems (SHS) and mini-grids to off-grid rural communities and the challenges faced in this expansion. During this workshop we will also investigate the potential impact of energy access on rural livelihoods in the country.
The workshop is being jointly organised by Smart Villages and Practical Action."
Innovation platforms at work: Supporting the transition to agroecology in Nic...Katharina Schiller
Functional analysis of how an innovation platform helps to scale up the use of agroecological practices amongst smallholders farming basic grains in northern Nicaragua
3rd Africa Climate Smart Agriculture Alliance Forum
Implementing Climate-smart village (CSV) approach in West
Africa : Key achievements & lessons learned for CSA
upscaling
Presentation given by Dr. Mathieu Ouédraogo, CCAFS West Africa
This is a poster displaying the various climate-smart innovations that have been adopted by farmers in the Nyando climate-smart villages in Western Kenya.
New tools are being developed by Czech Living Lab WirelessInfo, which allow users to easily publish their data and metadata as part of a Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI). The paper describes the design of a Technological Infrastructure on the basis of ISO and OGC Standards and also the implementation of a prototype and first experiences. The solution is designed in distributed system form, which provides the connection to metadata about spatial data and services. This solution tests the principle of catalogue services at both national and international level which could be used in the UN SDI context. A catalogue portal is one of the independent components of GeoHosting complex system for raster and vector spatial data sharing. The catalogue portal provides data source searching on the basis of their metadata records through structure queries. The portal also contains edit functionality for new metadata records creating or editing. The metadata catalogue system corresponds to ISO 19115/19119/19139 standards [1], [2], [3], [4] and provides for cascade searching on the other standardized catalogue systems. The difference is, there exist different other initiatives offering publishing of own content like Google technology or OpenStreet Map, that GeoHosting is based fully on INSPIRE European standards and support establishing of network of distributed servers.
This paper defines vision for a farm of tomorrow and adoption of knowledge management system in the farm, which still has to be designed and developed by common farms and also farms of the future. The main focus of this vision is on integration among different levels of farm management systems and on requirements designed from analyses of external drivers. They will have a big influence on farm production in the future; using knowledge management and direction on future agriculture development in crop production. The report defines three levels of farm management. The proposed architecture is based on communication of interoperable services, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), for easy integration of different levels and components of farm management. The most important decision has to be provided by decision supporting system on the farm level. New methods of knowledge management are demonstrated on pilot models implemented on the base of Future Farm vision by the COIN project. As political consequences and conclusion is current working document Cologne agenda prepared as a basis for future activities supported by agriXchange initiative.
Making Research and Science Reach Farmers and End UsersFAO
Making Research and Science Reach Farmers and End Users, By Arab organization for Agricultural Development (AOAD), Land and Water Days in Near East & North Africa, 15-18 December 2013, Amman, Jordan
CoO + GI2015 ppt_charvat ict for a sustainable agriculture – public support n...IGN Vorstand
15. Sächsisches GI/GIS/GDI Forum und Club of Ossiach Workshops,
Dresden: 15. September 2015
CLUB OF OSSIACH RECOMMENDATION FOR ICT FOR FAMILY FARMING
Karel CHARVAT, Club of Ossiach / CCSS (CZ)
Presentation on Finnish results on NISTEP Delphi exerciseArho Suominen
Presentation @ Circular economy society – building future co-innovation between Japan and Finland Webinar hosted by Business Finland in cooperation with NISTEP and VTT
Full results report is available at https://www.businessfinland.fi/49e9fd/globalassets/finnish-customers/02-build-your-network/bioeconomy--cleantech/biocircular-finland/foresight-for-our-circular-economy-society.pdf
Collaboration Exploring and Caring for the Diversity of Agriculture Intensifi...Francois Stepman
Philippe Petithuguenin, Deputy Director for Research and Strategy, French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (CIRAD), European Partner of PROIntensAfrica
he FAO Science and Innovation Strategy focuses on three Pillars:
Strengthening science and evidence-based decision-making;
Supporting innovation and technology at regional and country level;
Serving Members better by reinforcing FAO’s capacities.
Functional bioscience innovation systems as the pathway to a sustainable bio-...SIANI
Presented as part of the "Moving Africa Towards a Knowledge Based Bio-economy" seminar on how agricultural innovation and in particular biosciences in areas such as breeding, agro-processing and value addition can contribute to economic growth and sustainable development in Sub-Saharan Africa. Key questions of the seminar:
How the millions of resource-poor smallholder farmers, so vital for food production and economic growth, can benefit from the prospects of a new bio-economy?
How countries in Sub-Saharan Africa can develop programmes, institutional capabilities and bioscience innovation structures able to adapt and use technologies and know-how based on their own priorities and needs?
How can Sweden assist countries in Sub-Saharan Africa to move Towards a Knowledge Based Bio-economy?
Precision Farming (PF) is introduced and history in short is reviewed. Essential activities of GPS locating, soil mapping, GIS dataprocessing and presentation and VRT application are described. Basic principles of PF are shown to be:
• Precision Farming is the management process of within-field variability.
• This management must bring profit or at least reduce the risk of loss
• This management must reduce the impact of farming on environment.
Techniques used in Precision Farming are described. Economics of Precision Farming is discussed. A general cost/benefit analysis and profitability of PF are reviewed. The price of PF adoption facing a farmer is discussed. Methods of process analysis and activity based costing are shown as useful instruments for PF process analysis and model building. PF process is analysed and process graph is developed.
1. “Ossiach Declaration on the uptake of ICT for Agriculture,
Forestry, Rural Viability and Environmental Management”
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Charter members: Robin Bourgeois Senior Foresight and Development Policies Expert, Secretariat
of the Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR c/o FAO- #RD),Italy; Ajit Maru Senior Officer
Secretariat of the Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR c/o FAO-#RD) Italy, Karel
Charvat, Project Manager of Help Service Remote Sensing s.r.o., WirelessInfo Czech Centre for
Science and Society, Czech Republic and CEO of Baltic Open Solution Centre Latvia and former
EFITA president; Ehud Gelb Samuel #eaman Institute for #ational Policy Research,Hebrew
University, Center for Agricultural Economic Research, Israel; Dieter Ott, Bundesverband der
Deutschen Maschinenringe (BMR), Germany; Markus F. Hofreither, University of #atural Resources
and Life Sciences, Institute for Sustainable Economic Development, Austria; Kyandoghere Kyamakya,
Smart System Technologies-Transportation Informatics, Alpen Adria University, Austria; Alphons
Claessens, #IT Holding – Limited, #etherland; Alfred Pitterle, University of #atural Resources and
Life Sciences Institute of Silviculture and CEO of ForCert GmbH, Vienna, Austria; Walter Mayer,
Chief Executive Officer, PROGIS Software GmbH, Villach, Austria
The “Club of Ossiach”, a group of agriculturists, agribusiness managers, agriculture
technologists and agricultural ICT specialists from around the world, met at Ossiach between
17-19 June 2013 at the “AgriFuture Days” Conference. They reviewed current trends and
possible discontinuities resulting from political, social, environmental and technological
changes, potentially impacting on the future of agriculture, farming, rural viability, food and
nutrition worldwide.
1. The Club of Ossiach recognized that:
• Almost a third of the world’s population is vulnerable to poverty and malnutrition,
respectively is marginal in its current food and nutritional security, has concerns of its
food safety and reliability of its supply.
• The resource poor small holder farmers of the world are the poorest and the bottom of
the heap of the hungry.
• The world today faces severe environmental changes and damages. In addition it
cannot continue to exploit natural resources in the current unsustainable manner.
• Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), nanotechnology,
biotechnology, materials and space technology among many other technological
innovations, individually and jointly, are essentially unsynchronized. This negatively
influences human progress and development including agriculture, food security and
rural viability. We have to create a bio-based economy (accepting the sustainability
rules of nature) transforming industry, business and services.
• The potential to feed the world, to use natural resources and safeguard the
environment depends on judicious change and use of technology.
• However, the poorest of the world not only suffer the most but may miss from
benefitting from this economic and technological transformation.
2. The Club of Ossiach focus on ICTs identified the following key points in adoption
of ICT in agriculture
• Agricultural contribution to rural communities is not limited to agrotechnology and
production efficiencies. To a large extent it is the result of ICT innovations and their
implementation.
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• ICT adoption for agriculture impacts on rural community sustainability and an
unlimited variety of products, economic benefits, technical improvements and social
enhancement.
• ICT will be most effective as an incentive and agent of change when used at points of
stakeholder cooperation. Stakeholders can be expected to be a major motivating
factor for adopting ICT supported agricultural production and rural sustainability.
• Stakeholders participation in ICT development and implementation of innovative
initiatives must include farmers, extension, scientists, agricultural and social services,
students, rural residents and sector supporting entities. This “Bottom –Up” inclusion
complements the now conventional “Top Down” model.
3. The Club of Ossiach, recognized that these technologies:
• Create promising choices including the change of the nature of information. This will
make it easier to distribute, share and utilize data, information and knowledge.
• Contribute to implementation of opportunities, addressing discontinuities and new
options;
• Are most effectual as a means of change when effectively integrated at the points of
collaboration between the various stakeholders. They enhance development by
introducing new elements of flexibility in production, development of innovations
and facilitating their implementation.
• Dictate caution and care in access and use of ICT supported knowledge especially
during introductory stages. The knowledge must be focused on people, sustainability,
equity, welfare and “happiness”. “Sustainability” in this context must be understood
as furthering economical development, lifelong learning, social justice and
environmental integrity.
• ICT produces ruptures through creative technological breakthroughs: from
“constructive destruction to destructive construction”. It enables the transformation of
concurrent practices driven by tradition, ulterior external interests and obsolete
technologies. ICT can support individuals in motivating, integrating and sustaining
change in communities. With this understanding ICT will contribute to create choices
and processes of change especially through partnerships and co-leadership.
• The Club of Ossiach recognized further that by creative cooperation sustainable and
responsible agriculture can be attained. This will demonstrate the feasibility of future
evolution of Earth’s ecosystems. They will enhance health and well-being globally in
addition to attaining more effective distribution of the food produced and minimizing
food waste.
• The Club of Ossiach considered it as a responsibility to pursue technological change
within agriculture.
4. Recommended/expected ICT Adoption priorities and their potential benefits for
future agricultural communities:
• Innovation adoption
• Know-how transfer
• Technology integration
• New business models
• Stimulating innovations – technical, environmental, social and more.....
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• Cooperation at the various production and social levels
• Universal benefit for all chain members
• Support a “European Innovation Partnership (EIP): Agricultural Productivity and
Sustainability” initiative.
The Club of Ossiach will meet regularly, to jointly consider the future of agriculture, farming,
food and nutrition and rural viability. The meetings will include documenting the process, its
progress and regular publication of its findings.
5. A possible business-model
A new business model for a country-wide Agro-ICT-adoption was introduced and reviewed at
the conference. The model was titled an “Agro-ICT-Infrastructure concept”. It is designed to
be initiated by the government or a public-private consortium within a country. It will collate
and integrate basic data like ortho-images, agro-meteorological data and ICT-technologies
accessible to the country’s agro-community. This community will include farmers,
smallholders, their suppliers, customers, advisors, supporting science, education bodies and
other public authorities. They all represent the food-, feed-, biomass- or log-production chain
and are linked together with applications supporting their information needs.
For more information and comments please contact office@agrifuturedays.com
“Club of Ossiach”
Postgasse 6
A-9500 Villach
clubofossiach@agrifuturedays.com