Smart Digital Farming

Overview

Smart Digital Farming is a non-profit organisation in Flanders, Belgium

We stand for digital transformation in the agrifood sector

SDF is non-profit initiative of companies (members >70% SME's in 2019) active in innovative precision farming -and livestock breeding with as main objectives. It is partly subsidized by the Flemish Government and has a 3 year working program.

1) Deploy economic potential and enhance the competitiveness of Flemish SME's via active and sustainable collaboration within the AgriFood 4.0 environment.

2) Contribute with solutions to the societal/agricultural challenges with a direct economical added value for Flemish SME's.

3) Stimulate open innovation, market -and product innovation, and international exposure of the SDF initiative.

We are a Digital Innovation Hub within the H2020 DT-RUR-12 project SmartAgriHubs

Together with our host ILVO (BE), the University of Wageningen and TNO (NL), we are building a network of Digital Innovation Hubs for European agrifood sector in order to connect innovation on an interregional scale. As of 2019, Smart Digital Farming is a DIH within SmartAgriHubs acting as the one-stop-shop for the digital transformation in agrifood.

We will become an EDIH in the Digital Europe Program

Together with the Flemisch government VLAIO/EWI, ILVO and Flanders' Food, we are leading the way towards a Belgian Hub for Food Systems according European standards and guidelines. Smart Digital Farming is also a partner in the DIHHELP program of the European Commission for that matter. Digital technologies.