Imagine a giant, digital library where farmers and foresters from all over Europe can share their best tricks and proven solutions. Instead of every farm reinventing the wheel, they can search for what actually worked in another country. It's like a Wikipedia specifically for practical, green agriculture that helps people move from old methods to sustainable ones.
Agricultural knowledge is often trapped in isolated research projects or regional silos, making it hard for farmers to find practical, proven solutions for sustainability.
An open-source, multilingual digital platform and a set of training materials for AKIS actors to share and search for practical farming and forestry solutions.
If you are a digital platform provider dealing with fragmented agricultural data — this project developed an open-source knowledge reservoir that organizes practical solutions from 18 countries. This allows for better integration of verified farming data into commercial tools.
If you are a farm advisory service dealing with the need for updated Green Deal training — this project developed training materials on current policy issues. This helps advisors provide faster, evidence-based guidance to their clients.
If you are a trade journal dealing with low engagement on technical research — this project developed links between digital reservoirs and traditional journals. This drives more targeted traffic and practical utility to professional publications.
Based on available project data, the platform is described as open-source, but specific pricing for commercial exploitation is not mentioned.
Yes, the project is designed as an EU-wide digital reservoir involving 18 countries to support agriculture and forestry at scale.
The project summary explicitly states the EU-FarmBook platform is open-source.
The platform is specifically designed to support the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), the Green Deal, and Farm to Fork objectives.
The project runs from 2022-08-01 to 2029-07-31, with a pre-launch for specific users already occurring in February 2024.
The consortium is highly diverse with 30 partners across 18 countries, showing strong geographic coverage. While dominated by universities and research centers (13 total), there is a significant business presence with 4 industry partners and 7 SMEs, indicating a push toward commercial viability and practical application.
Contact Universiteit Gent regarding the open-source platform's exploitation phase.
Contact us to identify integration opportunities with the EU-FarmBook open-source API.
