Create open data culture to feed hungry world, say experts (PhysOrg)

PhysOrg published an article on agricultural data accessibility which is key to accelerating new discoveries and translating them into practice in the field. Some experts say that agriculture trails behind its more open and accessible scientific counterparts, threatening the success of programs to reduce world hunger. However, Senior Research Fellow Medha Devare says, “Agriculture’s not lagging behind other fields so much as we could be doing more. The genetics and genomics fields, high energy physics, those are fields that have gone quite far ahead with making use of the [open data] technology, tools, and capabilities that are currently available. They’ve done a better job. But there are many reasons for that.” Republished in Sci Dev Net and  De Wereld Morgen.