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Commons to Code: How Platforms Rewire Agriculture and Reshape Power

This case study examines the rise of digitised, data-dependent agriculture, focusing on Bayer's Climate FieldView as a prime example of how agribusiness and technology companies are reshaping food systems

Friday 5th December 2025

This study maps the flow of agricultural data, from data generation on farms to storage, processing and monetisation, showing how each stage is integrated into infrastructures and contractual regimes controlled by companies. Through this flow, farmers' practices, environments and knowledge are translated into private data flows, reinforcing platform lock-in, algorithmic governance and financialisation.

This case study is part of a research collaboration between ETC Group and IT for Change, supported by the Center for Global Digital Justice.

Ditching techno-patriarchy and the ‘permacrisis’

The ongoing digitalisation tsunami is likely to usher in a new worldwide wave of gender-based impacts.

Wednesday 8th March 2023

As CSW67 turns its attention to digitalisation, like the rest of the United Nations, this Briefing zooms in on less-discussed aspects of the ongoing digitalisation tsunami, which is likely to usher in a new worldwide wave of gender-based impacts, as the techno-patriarchy, along with Big Ag and other industries, relentlessly dreams up new ways of turning a profit by digitalising as many sectors as possible (often in extraordinarily far-fetched and unnecessary ways).

Report cover art showing digital game console being used to manipulate small farms

A Future of Farms without Farmers?

Deployment of Agricultural Digitalization in Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines

Monday 5th December 2022

Digital agriculture is the application of digital tools and business models integrated with digital technologies across the agricultural-food (agri-food) chain.

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False Solutions Alert: Geoengineering in Climate Negotiations

Geoengineering comprises a set of technologies that include interventions on land, in the oceans, or in the atmosphere.

Thursday 3rd November 2022

Geoengineering – the large-scale and intentional technological manipulation of the planet’s climate – is creeping onto the agenda and into the processes of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) despite multiple concerns about potential environmental and social impacts.

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