{"id":57933,"date":"2021-05-19T06:12:13","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T11:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=57933"},"modified":"2021-05-19T06:12:13","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T11:12:13","slug":"big-ags-wedding-to-big-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=57933","title":{"rendered":"Big Ag\u2019s Wedding to Big Data"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Big Ag\u2019s Wedding to Big Data<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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Jomo Kwame\u00a0Sundara warns about how the Davos World Economic Forum\u2019s \u00a0much touted \u201cFourth Industrial Revolution\u201d (IR4.0) is transforming food systems. For instance, agriculture is now second only to the military in drone use.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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(DJI-Agras from Pixabay)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

P<\/strong>roducers and consumers seem helpless as food all over the world comes under fast growing corporate control. Such changes have also been worsening environmental collapse, social dislocation and the human condition.<\/p>\n

The recent joint report \u2013 by the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food<\/a>) and the ETC Action Group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration \u2013 is ominous, to say the least.<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/em>A Long Food Movement<\/a>,\u201d principally authored by Pat Mooney with a team including IPES-Food Director Nick Jacobs, analyses how food systems are likely to evolve over the next quarter century with technological and other changes.<\/p>\n

The report notes that hi-tech data processing and asset management corporations have\u00a0joined established agribusinesses<\/a>\u00a0in reshaping world food supply chains.<\/p>\n

If\u00a0current trends continue<\/a>, the food system will be increasingly controlled by large transnational corporations (TNCs) at the expense of billions of farmers and consumers.<\/p>\n

Davos\u2019 IR4.0 Not Benign<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Davos World Economic Forum\u2019s (WEF) much touted \u201cFourth Industrial Revolution\u201d (IR4.0), promoting digitization, is transforming food systems, accelerating concentration in corporate hands.<\/p>\n

New apps enable better tracking across supply chains, while \u201cprecision farming\u201d now includes using drones to spray pesticides on targeted crops, reducing inputs and, potentially, farming costs. Agriculture is now second only to the military in drone use.<\/p>\n

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\u201cShaping the Fourth Industrial Revolution\u201d session at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Jan. 25, 2018.\u00a0(World Economic Forum, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Digital giants are working with other TNCs to extend enabling \u201ccloud computing\u201d infrastructure. Spreading as quickly as the infrastructure allows, new \u2018digital ag\u2019 technologies have been displacing farm labour.<\/p>\n

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Big Ag\u2019s Wedding to Big Data Jomo Kwame\u00a0Sundara warns about how the Davos World Economic Forum\u2019s \u00a0much touted \u201cFourth Industrial Revolution\u201d (IR4.0) is transforming food systems. For instance, agriculture is now second only to the military in drone use.\u00a0 (DJI-Agras from Pixabay) Producers and consumers seem helpless as food all over the world comes under […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,7],"tags":[20,23801,6963,11877,31249,14742,889],"class_list":["post-57933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-liberty","category-survival-2","tag-agriculture","tag-big-ag","tag-consortium-news","tag-fourth-industrial-revolution","tag-jomo-kwame-sundara","tag-wef","tag-world-economic-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57934,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57933\/revisions\/57934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}