Gates Foundation : Spearheading the neoliberal plunder of African agriculture...
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) is dangerously and unaccountably distorting the direction of international development, according to a new report by the campaign group Global Justice Now....
View ArticleThe land grab for farm data | TechCrunch
Farmers are adopting smart-sensor technologies and connected farm equipment more quickly than ever, stretching each season to eke out greater yield from finite acreage.
View ArticleWho will protect farmers’ privacy in the big data boom?
This discussion came to a head recently when the House Agricultural Committee held a hearing to examine the impacts of “big data” on the entire agricultural life cycle. With farmers and companies...
View ArticleA farmer’s perspective: 4 reasons why collecting data is important
Here, I ask Kristin Weeks Duncanson, a crop and livestock operator and member of the AGree advisory committee, to explain the value of collecting data for farm operations and the environment and why...
View ArticleHow to overcome big data’s barriers
Here’s how we can address some of the biggest challenges and hasten ag’s big data revolution for the benefit of people and the planet.
View ArticleFarm groups, ag tech companies agree on data privacy standards | Reuters
A consortium of farmer organizations and agriculture data technology providers on Thursday published a set of data privacy and security principles aimed at reassuring farmers that data they share with...
View ArticleFarmobile Addresses Data Privacy Concerns with Transparency Contracts for...
Farmobile, an ag data collection and software service, is now offering farmers legal agreements that govern the ownership and control of their agronomic data.
View ArticleFarm groups sue EPA over farmers’ privacy | TheHill
In April, the EPA released information about approximately 80,000 farmers and ranchers in 29 states in response to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests about animal feeding operations from the...
View ArticleSurvey: Farmers concerned about privacy of farm data
Farmers remain concerned about who can access their farm data, according to survey results released this week by the American Farm Bureau Federation.
View ArticleUnited States farmers concerned about data privacy and precision agriculture...
As more farmers incorporate precision technology into their businesses, they're also gathering huge amounts of raw data about their farms.
View ArticleHigh-tech U.S. farm machines harvest Big Data, reap privacy worries -...
John Deere's enterprise privacy statement, tucked away on its website at http://www.deere.com/wps/dcom/privacy_and_data/privacy_and_data_us.page, shows that the company can collect data on Deere...
View ArticleClimate Corp, Monsanto lay out new data privacy policies | Precision Farming...
The Climate Corporation announced its new privacy policy, which sets a new tone for protecting farmer data. The company also announced the creation of the Open Agriculture Data Alliance to act as an...
View ArticleImproving pathways to adoption: Putting the right P’s in precision agriculture
[note - doesn't mention privacy anywhere!]
View ArticleBig Data in Agriculture: Property Rights, Privacy and Competition in Ag Data...
The transition from precision agriculture to big data opens a variety of concerns among both farmers and ag data service providers about the privacy, ownership and use of farm data. This paper...
View ArticleBig Data Comes to the Farm, Sowing Mistrust - WSJ
Big agricultural companies say the next revolution on the farm will come from feeding data gathered by tractors and other machinery into computers that tell farmers how to increase their output of...
View ArticleFrom Precision Agriculture to Market Manipulation: A New Frontier in the...
This Note seeks to explain the legalities of using data produced by precision agriculture in the commodities futures market. Part I will explain, in a brief overview, (1) what precision agriculture is;...
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