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French President Emmanuel Macron has called for increased use of data technologies such as blockchain in the EU to boost the agriculture industry and address concerns over food traceability.
Inaugurating the 56th International Agricultural Fair in Paris at the weekend, Agridigitale.net reports, Macron spoke of the need to authenticate and track agricultural products amid growing consumer concerns over issues such such as the recent Polish beef scandal, saying:
“Let’s do this in Europe, [be at the] the vanguard of agricultural data by developing tools that will track every product from raw material production to packaging and processing.”
[...] The call for innovation came as part of a multi-part strategy that the president outlined in his speech. Europe’s agricultural policy going forward, he said, would be based on the protection of farmers and consumers against climate change and market risks, farming more ecologically, and using technology and innovation to help to solve industry challenges.
https://www.coindesk.com/french-president-says-blockchain-could-put-europe-at-vanguard-of-innovation
(Score: 2) by bradley13 on Thursday February 28 2019, @08:15PM (2 children)
Likely he heard this from a lobbyist angling for a government contract. Has no clue what it means, nor that the ledger is the least of the problem in applications like agriculture.
Everyone is somebody else's weirdo.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday February 28 2019, @09:48PM (1 child)
He heard blockchain, and it set his mind racing . . .
Blockchain sounds like a perfectly good way to keep people from escaping their prison cells. If the block is heavy enough.
When trying to solve a problem don't ask who suffers from the problem, ask who profits from the problem.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 01 2019, @12:01AM
Don't forget: a chain is as strong as its weakest link, be that block heavy or not...