Graham Mullier presentation during the Big Data Europe SC2 Policy Advisory Workshop, Brussels, 30/09/2016

1. 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

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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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And for the long term
we want a more
permanent structure –
something that we can
expect to use
routinely, like a bridge
connecting parts of a
city.
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 sharing
GODAN Data Ecosystem for Agri-food WG to bring senior data
people together (co-led by Agroknow & Syngenta)
Engage people developing data infrastructure pieces
Engage 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 view
If you are funding such work
- share with us your priorities, interests and planned interventions to (at least)
avoid overlaps and double-funding
NikosM@agroknow.com
Graham.Mullier@Syngenta.com @GrahamMullier