CGIAR BigData Briefs
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Item Increasing interoperability between food and agricultural information systems: CGIAR and FAO collaboration(Brief, 2021-11) Arnaud, Elizabeth; Obileye, Olatunbosun; Bonaiuti, Enrico; Jani, Sara; Kim, Soonho; Laporte, Marie-Angélique; Muliro, Jacqueline; Saito, Erica; Yabowork, Abenet; Zúñiga, Araceli; Jeitani, Asma; Adepoju, Hafeez; Garruccio, Maria; Ghazali, Saadiah; Subbirats, Imma; Kolshus, KristinIt is crucial that data resources can talk to each other through thesaurus, ontologies and standards. Therfore, the integration of CGIAR controlled vocabularynto the AGROVOC thesaurus is key to interlink our data sets and publications in the food and agricultural domain and produce multilingual quality labeling. The Task Group and a curation team defined the added value for the CGIAR to formally contribute to AGROVOC, and how to organize CGIAR contribution in a coherent workflow. The recommendations are the following: 1. One CGIAR needs to strengthen its contribution to AGROVOC thus supporting the consolidation of the semantic landscape for labeling data in agriculture and food systems. 2.CGIAR centers should wait a bit till the affiliation process is complete so that the appropriate unit that will be responsible for AGROVOC can consume the Agreement since the timeline for the affiliation process is just some few months away. 3.OneCGIAR data managers will have to sustain the collaboration and submit terms to populate the ONECGIAR concepts schema newly created to provide direct visibility of the set of concepts (https://agrovoc.fao.org/skosmosOneCGIAR/cgiar/en/ ). Based on the collaboration concrete results, The TG recommends that the term submission effort and collaboration with FAO continues with proper allocation of data managers’ time and a training plan. Contribution to AGROVOC should be part of the data managers ToRs to concrete provide recognition of this role.Item Relever les défis des start-ups digitales dans l'agrobusiness(Brief, 2019-09) Kropff, Wietske; Pilgrim, Valarie; Neate, Paul J.H.Le récent atelier du CTA « Dynamiser les connaissances pratiques pour améliorer l'agrobusiness de nouvelle génération dans les pays ACP par la digitalisation » a identifié cinq objectifs interdépendants de l'investissement dans le digital au service des agriculteurs : réduire les risques, accroître la productivité, améliorer l'efficience, prendre de meilleures décisions et faciliter l'accès aux marchés. Les personnes qui y ont assisté ont expliqué que tous les projets de digitalisation visaient un ou plusieurs de ces objectifs, selon les besoins et les contextes locaux. La durabilité économique des business models conçus pour fournir de la valeur et des services est un facteur déterminant de réussite dans tous ces domaines.Item Overcoming challenges to digital agribusiness start-ups in developing countries(Brief, 2019-01) Kropff, Wietske; Neate, Paul J.H.; Pilgrim, ValarieItem The 2017 CGIAR Inspire Challenge: Innovation strategies for digital agriculture(Brief, 2017) King, Brian; Wong, KelvinItem Overcoming challenges to digital agribusiness start-ups(Brief, 2019-01-17) Kropff, Wietske; Pilgrim, Valarie; Neate, Paul J.H.The recent CTA workshop on ‘catalysing actionable knowledge to enhance next-generation ACP agribusiness through digitalisation’ identified five intersecting drivers that explain what farmer-oriented agribusinesses expect to achieve by investing in digitalisation: reduced risk, raised productivity, increased efficiency, improved decisions, and enhanced market access. Participants argued that digital interventions all serve one or more of these, depending on specific local needs and situations. A critical factor underpinning what works in all these areas is the economic sustainability of the business models used to deliver value and services.