H2020-RUC-APS-PROJECT-SUMMARY

Enhancing and implementing Knowledge
based ICT solutions within high Risk and
Uncertain Conditions for Agriculture
Production Systems (RUC-APS)
Project Coordinator: Dr. Jorge Hernández
Lecturer in Operations & Supply Chain Management
University of Liverpool Management School
J.E.Hernandez@Liverpool.ac.uk
Coordinating institution:
University of Liverpool Management School

⚜ Background
⚜ Set the project in Context
⚜ RUC-APS admin related activities
⚜ Financing
⚜ Further steps
Introduction
EU Project Coordinator: Dr. Jorge Hernández – J.E.Hernandez@Liverpool.ac.uk

⚜ Funding body: EU H2020 Framework
⚜ Call: H2020-MSCA-RISE-2015
⚜ Topic area: “Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Research and Innovation Staff Exchange
(RISE)”
⚜ Project duration: 48 months
⚜ Project Starting due date: OCTOBER 2016
Background

Motivation/problem
• The agriculture value chain concept is not new. But,
since new unpredictable environments (weather,
economy, technology, etc.), it has become difficult to
manage, also difficult to compare to similar cases.
• There is a lack on global agriculture value awareness
and Knowledge Management.
• There is a lack on participative and collaborative ICT
developments.
• There is no validated framework for supporting
agribusiness and risk management under high
uncertainty and unexpected events.

⚜ Overall aim: From the genetic design of the seed, till
their planting and harvest processes, considering the
Farmers desired productivity as well as the expected
end-customer service level, RUCAPS aims to provide a
knowledge advancing in agriculture based-decision
making through the development of a high impact
research in terms of integrating real-life based agriculture
requirements, land management alternatives for a variety
of scales, unexpected weather and environmental
conditions as well as innovation for the development of
agriculture production systems and their impact over the
end users under participatory ICT developments.
Aim

⚜ Methodology: Through a multi-disciplinary and multi-
sector approach, RUCAPS research methodology is to
be based on research collaboration and secondments
among multidisciplinary cross-sector and cross-institution
beneficiaries from international point of view. Thus,
through the generation of work-packages, aligned with
the core objectives from RUCAPS, the full agriculture
value chain decision-making is to be covered from theory
and practice. This process is to be conceived as iterative
and participatory across participants.
Methodology

⚜ A decision support systems to efficiently use ICT’s for
horticulture production.
⚜ Reports based analysis to support the understanding of
the horticulture product responses to resources stress.
⚜ Models to inform land management alternatives under
unexpected emergency conditions to farmers.
⚜ A generic predictive models nutrient fluxes in the soil
profile by using the current knowledge from nutrient
cycling and the moderating role that biodiversity implies.
⚜ Horticulture characterization models for the cropping
developments for enhancing sustainable horticulture
operations, supply chain and knowledge management.
RUCAPS project outcomes

⚜ Characterisation of the role of wetting and drying cycles
on the release of nutrients from microbial biomass in
productive agricultural soils.
⚜ Establish new solutions for harvesting key agricultural
products covering genetic seed design and its link to the
agriculture value chain.
⚜ Analyse the contribution that bio-solids products could
make to deliver resilient crop production systems.
⚜ Establish standard mechanism to use molecular markets
to allow cropping physiology to be matched against
catchment features (e.g. soil type, drainage, etc).
RUCAPS project outcomes

⚜ To support the varietal behaviour in a variety of agro-climatic zones in
terms of cost and production cycle.
⚜ To optimise the agronomic management by understanding the
incorporation of specialized machinery in the processes of sowing,
transplanting and fertilizing.
⚜ To analyse and refine quality standards to ensure the safety of the
final agriculture based product under high risk and uncertain
conditions.
⚜ To evaluate the environmental conditions for enhancing soil
management technologies and planting management.
⚜ To model and optimise smarts and innovative collaborative
production-transport planning solutions of horticulture products across
the full value chain structure.
⚜ To generate horizontal and vertical knowledge exchange mechanisms
across the agriculture value chain.
Objectives

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Source: Hernandez et al. (2017). RUC-APS: Enhancing and implementing Knowledge based ICT solutions within high Risk and Uncertain
Conditions for Agriculture Production Systems. 11th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Industrial Management.
Valencia, Spain, July 5-6, 2017

⚜ Full horticulture value chain decision-making.
⚜ Sustainable vegetable production decision-making.
⚜ Risk and uncertainty based decision-making and food security.
⚜ Emergency management in agriculture.
⚜ Agriculture operations, logistics & knowledge management.
⚜ Collaborative agriculture production and transport planning.
⚜ Innovative and smart decision-making in horticulture.
⚜ Regional innovation strategies.
⚜ Participatory based decision support systems.
⚜ Interoperability across agriculture value chain.
⚜ Agriculture marketing and end-users management.
⚜ Global weather change social agriculture awareness.
Research knowledge exchange

Country Acronym Participant
ULIV-MS Management School - University of Liverpool
ULIV-LIRU
& Institute for Risk and Uncertainty-
University of Liverpool
UoP-MS Business School - University of Plymouth
UoP-BS
School of Biological Sciences- University of
Plymouth
RASE The Rural Agricultural Society of England
INIA-C
Carillanca - National Agriculture Institute of
Chile
INIA-LP
La Platina - National Agriculture Institute of
Chile
CNR- ISPA
CNR - Istituto di Scienze delle Produzioni
Alimentari
ALSIA
Agenzia Lucana di Sviluppo e di Innovazione
in Agricoltura
AINIA Food Innovation Technology Center
BDI Bretagne Développement Innovation
Country Acronym Participant
ISBPAN
Intelligent Systems Laboratory - Systems
Research Institute Polish Academy of Science
FEDACOVA Valencian Agri-Food Business Federation
UPVLC Universitat Politècnica de València
UNLP-FI
Faculty of informatics - Universidad de La
Plata
UNLP-FASF
Faculty of Agronomy and Natural Sciences -
Universidad de La Plata
UT1 Université Toulouse 1 Capitole
LEAF Linking Environment And Farming
UL TELECOM Nancy - University of Lorraine
SV ServiVerde
Consortium

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WP
Info
WP Title WP Leader
WP0 Project management University of Liverpool
WP1 ETHICS University of Liverpool
WP2
Knowledge management for smart
decision making in horticultural
production value chain
University of Plymouth
WP3
Optimization of horticultural
production systems
Carillanca - National Agriculture Institute
of Chile
WP4
Agriculture logistics and product
variety mapping requirements to
support risk management in value
chain decision-making processes.
University of Liverpool Management
School
WP5
Genetic developments to assist
crops adaptation and mitigation of
climate change through farm
species diversification
La Platina - National Agriculture Institute
of Chile
WP6
Innovative solutions for sustainable
fruits and vegetables production to
develop decision support system
Istituto di Scienze delle Produzioni
Alimentari
WP7
Uncertainty Quantification Through
Numerical Simulation
University of Liverpool Risk Institue
WP8
Agrifood Supply Chain Decision-
Making under Uncertainty
Polytechnic University of Valencia
WP9
Intensive Horticulture - Man versus
Machine
Kernock Park Plants/Innovatio for
Agriculture
WP Info WP Title WP Leader
WP10
IT-based Support for Informed,
Participative Decision Making in
Horticulture
Faculty of informatics - Universidad
de La Plata
WP11
Enterprise systems
interoperability assessment in
Agriculture domains
TELECOM Nancy - University of
Lorraine
WP12
Facilitation & Participatory
based Decision Support
Systems
Université Toulouse 1 Capitole
WP13
Integration of Decision Support
Systems in food safety and risk
management processes for the
F&V value chain
Food Innovation Technology Center
WP14
Agriculture value chain
management
Faculty of Agronomy and Natural
Sciences - Universidad de La Plata
WP15
Regional management of the
Agrifood sector on all the value
chain
Bretagne Développement Innovation
WP16
Implementation and
internationalization of quality,
environmental, health & safety
management systems for the
agriculture sector
Valencian Agri-Food Business
Federation
WP17 Training ALL
WP18
Travel, integration and transfer
of knowledge
ALL
RUC-APS Work Packages

RUC-APS Work Packages
WP 1
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Technology transfer / Validation
Agribusiness Requirements Agribusiness Innovation
Agribusiness Constraints
WP17 & WP18
WP0
Risk & Uncertainty
conceptualisation
Agribusiness
research
Applied
agribusiness
ICT-DSS for
Agriculture
Value Chain
Agribusiness
Innovation

Summary
⚜ RUCAPS aims to develop an international
knowledge management platform to support
decision-making in the full agriculture value
chain within high risk and uncertain
conditions.
⚜ Targeting at Small and Medium farmers,
Agronomics institutions, food management
end users.
⚜ European wide joint venture with international
impact.

Zachman

Zachman
Strategies
Conceptual & Business process models
Logical model to support further implementations
Technology model for ICT deployment
Software
Validations on case studies

RUC-APS vs. Zachman
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Agribusiness value chain standards
Best practices for collaborative
agribusiness decision-making
Open results and dissemination
Knowledge Platform
Decision Support System

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