In this interview with the Network for the Digital Economy and the Environment, Dr Oane Visser about the environmental benefits and risks of digital agriculture.
Visser discusses his research on precision agriculture, i.e. the use of digital tools and algorithms within agriculture.
He questions the techno-utopian thinking that undergirds precision agriculture, why technologies may be inaccurate 'in the wild', power struggles between different actors, the inequalities that digital technologies can produce and social movements that seek to promote more equitable forms of digital environmental governance within agriculture.
Precision agriculture and the costs of inaccuracy
Listen to the interview with Dr Oane Visser and read the associated article - 'The farm is not an algorithm'
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The Network for the Digital Economy and the Environment is a partnership between the University of California, Berkeley, The Environmental Law Institute and Yale University. This interview is one in a series of interviews with three international experts on digitalization and the environment.