e-Agriculture Discussion Update, Discussion # 1 of 2018
22/06/2018
The e-Agriculture team invites interested individuals to join in the E-Consultation on ethical,legal and policy aspects of open data affecting farmers on the e-Agriculture platform running from the 4th to the 8th of June on the e-Agriculture Platform.
Join and register online here
Data-driven agriculture is expected to increase agricultural production and productivity. It can help farmers adapt to or mitigate the effects of climate change. It can also bring about a more economic and efficient use of natural resources, reduce risk and improve resilience in farming and make agri-food market chains much more efficient.
However, smallholder farmers in developing countries are not harnessing the power of open data due to a number of challenges and risks that make it difficult to ensure digital investments benefit them. More info
The discussion is organised around 4 Questions, with each question per each day of the week, these are listed below :
Monday the 4th: Major challenges from a policy, legal and ethical perspective, preventing smallholder farmers benefiting from Open Data
Tuesday the 5th: Desired scenarios for a future where data-driven agriculture is successfully adopted by smallholder farmers.
Wednesday the 6th: Long-term ethical, legal and policy changes needed to move from the current scenario to the desired scenarios
Thursday the 7th : Actions to be taken in 2018-2021 to ensure that smallholder farmers benefit from agricultural data in the future.
Friday the 8th: Summarize the salient points of this discussion and recommend priority aspects for the f2f consultation
Information for participants How to participate in an E-ConsultationTo participate in an e-forum/e-counsultation on e-Agriculture is as easy as ABC. First, you need to have a user account, secondly log-in on the platform. Then access the forum discussion and type in your comments or submission. Send questions to [email protected]