All posts tagged "Agriculture"

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  Agricultural advice AI wins Canada’s Public Service Data Challenge

  A plan to use AI system ChatGPT to support Canada’s agricultural sector triumphed in the Public Service Data Challenge Final last night, securing the backing of top officials and putting

  • Posted June 22, 2023
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  US and EU launch ‘first sweeping AI agreement’ to strengthen public services and emergency response

  The White House and the European Commission have signed an administrative agreement committing each to quickening progress in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) with the goal of improving agriculture,

  • Posted February 1, 2023
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  Seven public servants’ ideas picked up by Canadian Data Challenge

  Launched earlier this year, the Public Service Data Challenge aims to identify and develop public servants’ ideas on how to make better use of data in government – here, we

  • Posted November 7, 2022
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  Why data analytics in agriculture is critical to the Green Deal

  How can we make agriculture sustainable without preventing farmers from thinking innovatively and continuing to produce affordable food of the highest quality? The answer to this question is essential if

  • Posted April 19, 2022
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  COP26 roundup: world leaders’ key commitments on climate change

  We outline the major pledges to have been announced in the first days of the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, UK, including commitments to cut methane emissions, address deforestation,

  • Posted November 3, 2021
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  Fields of battle: the trial of strength between India’s farmers and its market reformers

  For decades, the Indian government’s in-house economics think tank has played a key role in liberalising swathes of the economy. But in turning its attention to food production, it may

  • Posted May 14, 2021
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  Overcoming uncertainty: former environment and Brexit chief Clare Moriarty

  Following the 2016 referendum, Clare Moriarty ran the environment department then the UK’s EU exit operations. She tells Matt Ross how a focus on human nature helped her to lead

  • Posted November 4, 2020
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  Japan sets out its goals in $1bn technological research programme

  The Japanese government has pledged to spend ¥100bn (US$944m) on a range of ambitious programmes designed to address major societal challenges, including a project that aims to eliminate plastic waste

  • Posted August 5, 2019
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  UK government under pressure to set out Brexit ‘vision’

  The UK government is coming under growing domestic pressure to explain its Brexit strategy, with MPs of all parties and former cabinet secretary Lord O’Donnell calling on the prime minister

  • Posted September 5, 2016
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  Lord O’Donnell, former Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Civil Service, UK: Exclusive Interview

  Ten weeks on from the UK’s EU referendum, former cabinet secretary Sir Gus O’Donnell considers why the electorate voted to leave – and tells Matt Ross that new prime minister

  • Posted September 5, 2016
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