The ethics of big data in big agriculture
This paper examines the ethics of big data in agriculture, focusing on the power asymmetry between farmers and large agribusinesses like Monsanto. Following the recent purchase of Climate Corp., Monsanto is currently the most prominent biotech agribusiness to buy into big data. With wireless sensors...
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2016-03-01
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| description | This paper examines the ethics of big data in agriculture, focusing on the power asymmetry between farmers and large agribusinesses like Monsanto. Following the recent purchase of Climate Corp., Monsanto is currently the most prominent biotech agribusiness to buy into big data. With wireless sensors on tractors monitoring or dictating every decision a farmer makes, Monsanto can now aggregate large quantities of previously proprietary farming data, enabling a privileged position with unique insights on a field-by-field basis into a third or more of the US farmland. This power asymmetry may be rebalanced through open-sourced data, and publicly-funded data analytic tools which rival Climate Corp. in complexity and innovation for use in the public domain. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-8c659094bbc84740bf14831b6aaff0e92025-08-20T03:16:04ZengAlexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and SocietyInternet Policy Review2197-67752016-03-015110.14763/2016.1.405The ethics of big data in big agricultureIsabelle M. Carbonell0University of California, Santa CruzThis paper examines the ethics of big data in agriculture, focusing on the power asymmetry between farmers and large agribusinesses like Monsanto. Following the recent purchase of Climate Corp., Monsanto is currently the most prominent biotech agribusiness to buy into big data. With wireless sensors on tractors monitoring or dictating every decision a farmer makes, Monsanto can now aggregate large quantities of previously proprietary farming data, enabling a privileged position with unique insights on a field-by-field basis into a third or more of the US farmland. This power asymmetry may be rebalanced through open-sourced data, and publicly-funded data analytic tools which rival Climate Corp. in complexity and innovation for use in the public domain.https://policyreview.info/node/405AgricultureBig dataEthicsData-driven farming |
| spellingShingle | Isabelle M. Carbonell The ethics of big data in big agriculture Internet Policy Review Agriculture Big data Ethics Data-driven farming |
| title | The ethics of big data in big agriculture |
| title_full | The ethics of big data in big agriculture |
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| title_short | The ethics of big data in big agriculture |
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| topic | Agriculture Big data Ethics Data-driven farming |
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