Objectives

The main objective of OTAG is to improve an Operational Agricultural Production Management and Geodecisional Prototype Platform to address the global challenges of track and trace emerging risks in beef production in the context of Southern Cone Countries, in particular Brazil and Argentina, and the EU policies. The prototype will be implemented and tested under control conditions in Campo Grande EMBRAPA Research Station in Brazil. To achieve this objective the following issues have to be addressed:

1. Animal mobility, land use and pasture management;


2. Scale issues in the emerging risk management and diseases control;


3. Promotion of operational precision geomatics tools and methods based on emerging technology such as RFID, High resolution remote sensing, LBS, GIS, and DSS to favor a sustainable beef production practices and sustainable landscape structure and function;


4. Use of state of the art technologies for beef production and risk management and decision making (innovative contribution of Agri-traçabilité Québec http://www.agri-tracabilite.qc.ca );


5. Promote new technological and operational platform for agricultural risk management (crisis situation, food safety and regulation, market changes, trade issues)