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Overview of the open data agricultural ecosystem in Croatia

Effective cooperation and data sharing in the agriculture sector remain limited due to the complexity of the agricultural system, a large number of stakeholders with different perspectives, interests, values, and concerns regarding business processes, in addition to lacking and decentralized data and information exchange. The application of emerging digital technologies and their integration into agricultural business process practices, the circular approach and participation, data sharing, and transfer of knowledge have been identified as key features of strategic planning, decision- making, and management in complex systems such as agriculture. Cooperation of all stakeholders from several dimensions and data sharing between them is necessary for the purpose of improving agricultural productivity, development of sustainable agricultural practices and addressing complex relationships, involving thereby the constraints, and interests of different stakeholder groups. The emphasis in this research is on the circular perspective of the agricultural ecosystem, focused on the cooperation of all stakeholders, which offers an understanding of sustainable data-based value creation. Identification of stakeholders in the agriculture ecosystem and the relationships of influence between them provides a basis for the analysis of agricultural problems at multiple levels, and between all stakeholders. An important aspect of stakeholder analysis is based on differentiating and classifying stakeholders according to their roles in the ecosystem. This form of categorization enables the grouping of stakeholders according to similar characteristics in order to identify those of strategic importance. Identification of relationships between all stakeholders can help determine how stakeholders could engage in a data ecosystem for policy implementation, support the decision-making of sustainable development, and manage business processes. Key stakeholder groups in the agriculture data ecosystem are agricultural producers/farmers, management and support organisations, consumer organisations/consumers, researchers and scientists and suppliers. In this research, an additional more detailed categorization of stakeholders was made. The first part of the research refers to identifying the stakeholders of the agricultural ecosystem in Croatia. Papers published in professional journals in the field of agriculture and stored in the national databases Hrčak and Dabar were analyzed. The second part of the research was identifying the basic characteristics and roles of individual stakeholders in the ecosystem, to investigate their data requirements, as well as the data that are the result of their work. Method of direct observation and informal and conversational qualitative interviews were used. In total 81 papers were found and their content was analyzed, with special emphasis placed on identifying any type of stakeholders operating in or in relation to the agriculture sector. A total of 24 journals, which were the result of the search, were analyzed according to the description of the content, and the publishers as well as all other relevant representatives of the journal were taken into account. The research results showed that groups, with the most stakeholders in the agriculture ecosystem, are agricultural producers/farmers and management and support organisations. The relations between stakeholders were constructed and differentiated with regard to public/governmental, private, and non-governmental society in terms of relations business-to-business (B2B), business-to-consumer (B2C), consumer-to- business (C2B), and consumer- to-consumer (C2C) relations, but also relationships such as business-to-employee (B2E), government-to- government (G2G), government-to employee (G2E), government-to-business (G2B), business-to government (B2G), government-to- customer (G2C), and customer-to government (C2G). Identified stakeholders and relationships between them, based on demand and supply side of data in two-way communication, are a prerequisite for building a successful agricultural system based on sustainability. This research provides an overview of stakeholders and their relationships in the ecosystem in order to fully understand the needs and problems associated with the data and to formulate strategies and recommendations for further development of the data ecosystem in Croatia through the relationships between stakeholders.

agriculture ecosystem ; open data ; stakeholders ; relationships

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