AIOTI WG Agriculture prepared its inputs to the Vision for EU Agriculture and Food.
In conclusions:
- The Strategic Dialogue report remarks the importance of further developing and supporting environmentally friendly agriculture, in particular organic farming, agroecology and regenerative agriculture. Thus, it is important to support the development of digital solutions for these agriculture modalities, which is a new area to be explored: from simple uses of sensors to highly sophisticated digital models/digital twins and gamification of the agricultural transition. We need digital solutions focused on the needs of an agriculture that pursues the transition to zero emissions.
- The EU farming sector is mainly composed of small family farms. The efforts to digitalize the sector must take into account this reality without contributing to further enlarge the digital divide.
- Supporting the digitalisation of the European agrifood sector should be done in close cooperation with the European ag-tech sector. The opportunity is in promoting European ag-tech companies which make the most of AI, IoT, sensing, communications, etc… all technologies Made in Europe integrated in an innovative agrifood value chain, contributing to achieve strategic autonomy for Europe, hand in hand with food security and sustainability.