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    UN Rapporteur to Agnes Kalibata: Food Systems Summit needs human rights at its core

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    Scottish fishermen halt exports, blame Brexit

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    New EU presidency to reform farm subsidies

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    Meat workers need early vaccination

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    UK food systems research bags £24 million in funding

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    Carrefour deal rouses food sovereignty impulse

    Carrefour deal rouses food sovereignty impulse

    Row over England’s half term school meals

    Row over England’s half term school meals

    UN Rapporteur to Agnes Kalibata: Food Systems Summit needs human rights at its core

    UN Rapporteur to Agnes Kalibata: Food Systems Summit needs human rights at its core

    Berners-Lee carbon calculator for food choices published

    Berners-Lee carbon calculator for food choices published

    Cheap food is no longer a tenable economic model, academic tells Oxford Farming Conference

    Cheap food is no longer a tenable economic model, academic tells Oxford Farming Conference

    Gene editing could become legal in England – EU pressured to follow suit

    Gene editing could become legal in England – EU pressured to follow suit

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    Food is eating the earth, reports Bloomberg

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    UN Rapporteur to Agnes Kalibata: Food Systems Summit needs human rights at its core

    UN Rapporteur to Agnes Kalibata: Food Systems Summit needs human rights at its core

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    Scottish fishermen halt exports, blame Brexit

    New EU presidency to reform farm subsidies

    New EU presidency to reform farm subsidies

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    UN Rapporteur to Agnes Kalibata: Food Systems Summit needs human rights at its core

    Berners-Lee carbon calculator for food choices published

    Berners-Lee carbon calculator for food choices published

    Cheap food is no longer a tenable economic model, academic tells Oxford Farming Conference

    Cheap food is no longer a tenable economic model, academic tells Oxford Farming Conference

    Gene editing could become legal in England – EU pressured to follow suit

    Gene editing could become legal in England – EU pressured to follow suit

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CGIAR and big data “Inspire” digital leadership in agriculture

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Landscape News reports that digitisation is taking too long to reach fields and farms.

“Somehow there is a missing link in getting data sets to make sense to the policymaking processes,” said Sara Mbago-Bhunu, director of the East and Southern Africa Division at the International Fund for Agricutltural Development. “There is a very deep analytical gap.”

Mbago-Bhunu was speaking at the CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture virtual convention that took place 21–23 October on computer screens all over the world.

While she acknowledges the contributions of GIS-type mapping and national agriculture investment programs, Mbago-Bhunu is not alone in seeing fragmented research divorced from practical application.

Ana Castillo Leska, senior specialist at the Inter-American Development Bank, agreed: “At least in Latin America, we don’t see agricultural research transform into solutions that are user friendly for farmers.”

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