Maria Walsh is an Irish member of the European Parliament, and a farmer. In this interview, we discuss the role of farmers and technology in fighting climate change but also of the role of women agriculture and of our Gender Task Force. A member of the Delegation for relations with the US, Ms Walsh gives us her insights on the newly introduced President Biden.

Mr Norbert Lins is a member of the European Parliament and the chair of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development. He’s very enthusiastic about the opportunities digital technologies have to offer in the agri-food sector. We talk with him about the importance of digitization for small scale farmers.

The podcasts is an interview of Maroussia. We explore the context that made her, the youngest of 3 daughters, take over her father's wine making business. Further to that, she will tell us how it is like to find your place as a woman in a man led industry at the heart of France's most illustrative production and what she has to say to the next generation.

Vincenzo Verrastro, agronomic engineer at the IAMB is invited in his quality of Fruit Trial chair for IoF2020. He gives us an overview of the way that the Covid crisis impacted the fruit sector. Not only in terms of production but also in terms of distribution and consumption. An unexpected consequence for instance was a change in the consumer behaviour: the quality of food was no longer a privileged criterion. Consumers wanted to get their food as quickly as possible and not spend time ...

Cristina Micheloni, senior researcher at AIAB represents the Vegetable Trial within IoF2020. She comes back on the main issues that the sector had to face and how the producers found the way to overcome the difficulties. For instance, a huge share of the vegetable production was not able to be sold on the open markets due to covid-19 restrictions. This led to significant food waste of fresh products, next to that, the production was also impacted by the lack of seasonal workers whic...

Evi Lippens, researcher at ILVO and representing the IoF2020 Meat Trial explains the challenges affecting the Meat sector and makes connections with the solutions found by the IoF2020 use cases to overcome these challenges. For instance, the meat demand was greatly impacted by the covid-19 as restaurants stopped their activity. This caused the meat producers to find solutions for avoiding food waste. A safe and affordable storage, new platforms to get in touch with customers, etc… at the...

IoF2020 Dairy Ecosystem Chair Kees Lokhorst explains how the COVID-19 has impacted the dairy sector and how the IoF2020 use cases have responded to the challenges with innovative solutions.

How has Covid 19 affected the arable sectorShort-term and long-term challenges:Sector resilience Field labor Storage Quality standards of productsConsequences of crisis on potato marketsPossible use of IoT for helping the sector and contribution sof IoF2020?Where can IoT help to improve things ?Product traceability and retail ordersAdvisoryMeasures that will outlive the crisisTake home message for policy makers