The livestock sector faces substantial sustainability challenges across environmental, economic, and social realms.
The lack of data harmonization, standardization & interoperability
Limited
application
of specific
technology
Low utilization
of public-private
synergies
Insufficient collaboration between actors in the agrifood value chain
Deficiency of
solutions
for tracking,
health,
policy
monitoring
What will Digi4Live do?
Digi4Live aims to address these challenges by empowering participants in the European livestock sector, enabling them to leverage data generation and digital technologies to their benefit. The project seeks to enhance the adoption of digital technologies and utilize diverse data sources for various livestock, including pigs, poultry, cattle, and sheep. With a comprehensive approach, Digi4Live can impact sectors that cover over 35% of the total agricultural output value in the European Union.
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Digi4Live Case Studies: Where data meets impacts
Digi4Live is working on 6 practical examples to track livestock using data. These case studies will focus on solutions for monitoring animals, their surroundings, and the environmental effects. Each study tackles both practical and technical challenges with the goal of being scalable across the European Union.
Concept solutions
Data-driven and digital solutions
Stakeholders adopting technologies
Dr Jarkko Niemi
Project Coordinator and Research Professor at Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke)
European livestock sector is facing tremendous traceability and sustainability challenges. Although digital technologies can help in responding to these demands, important barriers to valorize data and technologies exists. These include the costs of data use, poor standardization, rules of storage and sharing of datasets, and ethical and privacy concerns related to data sharing. The ambition of Digi4Live is to change this.
Digi4Live will boosts the creation of standards and harmonized regulations, thus eliminating technical barriers for data and data-generating technologies, and provide evidence on economic, social and environmental impacts of data-driven solutions. The project will point out how public administration, policy monitoring and assessment, businesses and consumers can benefit from digital technologies. Concepts to exploit data will be developed in six thematic case study hubs together with stakeholders.
Project Coordination:
Dr Jarkko Niemi,
Project Coordinator and Research Professor at Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke)
jarkko.niemi@luke.fi