Digital control: how Big Tech moves into food and farming (and what it means)
The world’s biggest technology companies and distribution platforms, such as Microsoft and Amazon, have started entering the food sector.
- Análisis
![control_digital.png control_digital.png](https://www.alainet.org/sites/default/files/styles/imagen-principal-articulo/public/control_digital.png?itok=-fxyULcy)
The world’s biggest technology companies and distribution platforms, such as Microsoft and Amazon, have started entering the food sector. What does this mean for small farmers and local food systems?
It leads to a strong and powerful integration between the companies that supply products to farmers (pesticides, tractors, drones, etc) and those that control the flow of data and have access to food consumers.
On the input side, agribusiness are joining the trend of getting farmers to use their mobile phone apps to supply them with data, on the basis that they can give ‘advice’ to the farmers. On the output side, big e-platform corporations can be seen buying their way into the sector and taking control of food distribution.
Together, they favour the use of chemical inputs and costly machinery, as well as the production of commodities for corporate buyers not local markets. They encourage centralisation, concentration and uniformity, and are prone to abusing their power and monopolisation.
Del mismo autor
- Comment la Fondation Gates pousse le système alimentaire dans la mauvaise direction 01/07/2021
- How the Gates Foundation is driving the food system, in the wrong direction 01/07/2021
- Cómo empuja la Fundación Gates al sistema alimentario en la dirección equivocada 01/07/2021
- El “maquillaje verde” de las corporaciones 18/03/2021
- Contrôle numérique : comment les Big Tech se tournent vers l'alimentation et l'agriculture (et ce que cela signifie) 28/01/2021
- Digital control: how Big Tech moves into food and farming (and what it means) 28/01/2021
- Control digital: cómo los Gigantes Tecnológicos entran al sector alimentación y la agricultura (y qué significa eso) 28/01/2021
- La compañía productora de cerdos más grande del mundo propaga la pandemia global 21/04/2020
- Nuevas investigaciones sugieren que las granjas industriales, y no los mercados de productos frescos, podrían ser el origen del Covid-19 02/04/2020
- L’accord commercial UE-Mercosur va intensifier la crise climatique due à l’agriculture 27/11/2019
Clasificado en
Clasificado en:
Internet ciudadana
- Nick Bernards 31/03/2022
- Paola Ricaurte 10/03/2022
- Burcu Kilic 03/03/2022
- Shreeja Sen 25/02/2022
- Internet Ciudadana 16/02/2022
![Suscribirse a America Latina en Movimiento - RSS](https://www.alainet.org/misc/feed.png)