Lighthouse Farm Lab Serbia: Data and Technology as Tools to Bring Sustainable Systems to Scale

This Lab is for:

• Professionals working in large-scale cropping systems and commodity value chains
• Technology providers, data platform developers, agribusiness consultants
• Multinationals, banks, food processors and certification bodies
• Anyone seeking to strengthen accountability and traceability in agricultural systems

• Use data to create transparency and reduce sustainability risks in supply chains.
• Understand how digital tools and data can be used as a new type of input for field monitoring, traceability and resource management (reducing the reliance on chemicals in large-scale arable production systems).
• Build trust between farmers, buyers, financiers and regulators.
• Evaluate and encourage the human element in agricultural technology, in a changing world.
• Identify where data-driven insights can shift decision-making and strategy.
• Understand the policy and market environments that surround farmers, with an emphasis on which levers of change can be pulled in order to scale sustainable systems with the use of data and technology.
• Recognize and reduce greenwashing, and improve accountability.

During the Lab, you will:

• Visit large-scale organic arable farming operations that create and implement digital tools
• Understand how we can use new technology and data to reduce our reliance on chemical inputs (and see how sustainability can really reach scale)
• Explore data systems for soil, input use, climate stress and crop monitoring
• Analyse real traceability models linked to international commodity markets
• Meet supply-chain actors involved in risk management and investment
• Work in teams on a challenge centred on "using data to redesign trust"
• Formulate your own data-informed action plan

Before joining the Lab, you must complete the online learning modules to build a shared foundation. These modules provide essential concepts, farmer insights and system-thinking tools that prepare you to fully engage in the real-world learning experience at the Lab.