Evaluation of agricultural policies in the era of big data: sharing experiences on data collection, management and processing innovative approaches

The increasing availability of big data is opening up new frontiers in evaluation, especially in relation to the digitalisation of agriculture. Evaluators are increasingly using ready-to use, unstructured and micro data which support assessing the effects of programmes and policies at farm, farming systems and environment levels.
This could lead to more robust and meaningful evaluations.
Besides, it implies the renewal of approaches, methods and tools of data management and information systems and also the redefinition of the collaborative relationships of evaluators, with data scientists and social scientists, that ensure the high quality, efficient and adequate processing of data for evaluation purposes.
This panel session has the overall objective to reflect on innovative experiences in relation to data collection, management and processing for evaluations in the context of the agricultural polices.
The panel session will feature:
 sharing experiences in the field of data collection, management and processing for evaluations, including use of digital tools in agriculture,
 learning from innovative data collection and processing methods ready-to-use for evaluations in the context of agricultural policies,
 expert discussion on approaches, methods and relational implications relating to the use of digital data in agriculture