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June 12, 2019
CGIAR Webinar by the Platform for Big Data in Agriculture’s Community of Practice on Ontologies – Can machine learning technologies be useful to create or complete ontologies in agriculture?

June 5, 2019
This year the CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture will award up to 1 million USD in grants to two categories of Inspire Challenge winners. We hosted a Q&A to address potential applicants’ questions. Here are the takeaways.

May 29, 2019
This year the CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture will award up to 1 million USD in grants to two categories of Inspire Challenge winners: pilot project grants and scale-up grants for winners of the 2018 grant who demonstrate exceptional results, proven viability, and potential for impact.

May 24, 2019
The BIG DATA Platform’s Coordinator Brian King spoke with the Agricultural Information Management Standards team facilitated by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

April 30, 2019
John Innes Centre researcher Dr. Diane Saunders has been selected as a finalist for the Innovator of the Year award following her team’s potentially transformative approach to identifying individual strains of complex fungal pathogens directly in the field.