A global data ecosystem for agriculture and food – where next?

Syngenta - R&D Information Systems – Data Sciences GODAN Summit - 16th Sept 2016

Graham Mullier

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Data ecosystem – a roadmap of collaborations

The Good Growth Plan second data release – 16 Mar

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The Good Growth Plan second data release – 16 Mar

Thought For Food Challenge – 2 April

Technical standards group initiated

Working group develops story

ODI summit, EU meeting Q4

The Good Growth Plan second data release – 16 Mar

Thought For Food Challenge – 2 April

Technical standards group initiated

Working group develops story

ODI summit, EU meeting Q4

The Good Growth Plan second data release – 16 Mar

Thought For Food Challenge – 2 April

Technical standards group initiated

Working group develops story

ODI summit, EU meeting Q4

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Data ecosystem – next steps with the GODAN working group

“For a data revolution to happen, agriculture and food need a fabric of interoperable and interplaying infrastructure layers that will make data sharing and exchange as natural to us as it is to use the road or rail infrastructure to move from one country to another.”

Currently running a data hack – brilliant work by trained data scientists – which is a lot like building a temporary bridge.You can see the demo at the Agroknow booth

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Plus policies, rules of the road, a sustainable maintenance regime.

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Data ecosystem – a world in motion – led by empirical data science

Sharing scientific knowledge:Major companies - Syngenta and others - are investing into linked data platforms for their R&D EU and CGIAR are building a platform based on linked open data and big data analytics for their scientific data and outputs INRA, WUR, Agroknow & FAO will coordinate the development of a 10y roadmap for a scientific data infrastructure in agriculture and food

Going beyond the hacks:• Syngenta, Agroknow, Agrimetrics, CABI

combining data by hand today• Shared vocabularies, data models and

well-formed APIs would make this so much easier

Getting the right people together - GODAN Data Ecosystem working group:

Open Harvest ’16 & Chania Declaration: public and private sector working closely on data sharingGODAN Data Ecosystem for Agri-food WG to bring senior data people together (co-led by Agroknow & Syngenta)Engage people developing data infrastructure piecesEngage donors and funding agencies

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How can the data ecosystem help? – join us and help to shape the answer

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More arable land is needed

More water is needed

More human labor is needed

Weeding a one hectare farm takes 200 hours of labor

By 2050 four billion people will live in countries with water scarcity

We lose a soccer field of farmland every second

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Data ecosystem – how you can get involved:

If you are building data platforms or infrastructures- join the GODAN WG (contact Graham or Nikos for more info)

If you are producing, managing or using scientific data- follow GODAN for an announcement on roadmap development events & how to

contribute with your viewIf you are funding such work

- share with us your priorities, interests and planned interventions to (at least) avoid overlaps and double-funding

NikosM@agroknow.comGraham.Mullier@Syngenta.com @GrahamMullier