agridata.ch is the foundation for the Swiss agricultural and food sector's data space. It provides a secure, efficient, and trustworthy data transfer service that enables interoperability and supports the once-only principle — data is collected once at the source and reused across participants.

Key idea: agridata.ch does not store or process payload data. Instead, it enforces contracts and producer consents, and mediates access to the existing APIs of data providers. Data sovereignty remains with producers and providers at all times.

• Trusted data transfer only agridata.ch acts as a neutral broker between all actors in Switzerland's agri-food sector.

• No storage or transformation The platform does not read, manipulate, or persist business data. It only brokers consent and access.

• Contracts and consents are enforced Data access is permitted only if a valid contract exists between data provider and data consumer, and if the affected data producers have explicitly granted consent.

• Interoperability & once-only Providers expose standardized, versioned APIs. Consumers reuse data rather than re-collecting it.

You own a dataset that other organizations want to access. You publish it as a data product through your own API, and agridata.ch acts as the authorization layer in front of it.

→ Guide for Data Providers

You want to access data products from one or more providers. You submit a data request, collect producer consents, and call the agridata.ch transfer API to retrieve data.

→ Guide for Data Consumers