Big Data in food and agriculture

被引:239
作者
Bronson, Kelly [1 ]
Knezevic, Irena [2 ]
机构
[1] St Thomas Univ, 51 Dineen Dr, Fredericton, NB, Canada
[2] Carleton Univ, Ottawa, ON, Canada
关键词
digital revolution in agriculture; farmers; agribusiness; power; material implications of big data;
D O I
10.1177/2053951716648174
中图分类号
C [社会科学总论];
学科分类号
03 ; 0303 ;
摘要
Farming is undergoing a digital revolution. Our existing review of current Big Data applications in the agri-food sector has revealed several collection and analytics tools that may have implications for relationships of power between players in the food system (e.g. between farmers and large corporations). For example, Who retains ownership of the data generated by applications like Monsanto Corproation's Weed I. D. "app''? Are there privacy implications with the data gathered by John Deere's precision agricultural equipment? Systematically tracing the digital revolution in agriculture, and charting the affordances as well as the limitations of Big Data applied to food and agriculture, should be a broad research goal for Big Data scholarship. Such a goal brings data scholarship into conversation with food studies and it allows for a focus on the material consequences of big data in society.
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