Uncertain impacts of new technologies: the case of digital agriculture and blockchains

Lemeilleur, Sylvaine; d'Hôtel, Elodie Maître; Lepiller, Olivier; Hobeika, Alexandre

doi:10.19182/agritrop/00101

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“…Some scholars [61][62][63] note that digital farming represents the fourth agricultural revolution, which can introduce a new phase in agricultural history, after a relatively long period during which technology continued to develop incrementally. However, despite their potential positive effects, digital technologies have a disruptive and transformational nature, which may shake up the organizations involved in agrifood production and supply systems [61,[64][65][66].…”

Section: Agricultural Digitalization As a Punctuational Changementioning

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Extension and Advisory Organizations on the Road to the Digitalization of Animal Farming: An Organizational Learning Perspective

Charatsari

Lioutas

Rosa

et al. 2020

Animals

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Agricultural digitalization emerged as a radical innovation, punctuating the gradual evolution of the agrifood sector and having the potential to fundamentally restructure the context within which extension and advisory organizations operate. Digital technologies are expected to alter the practice and culture of animal farming in the future. To suit the changing environmental conditions, organizations can make minor adjustments or can call into question their purposes, belief systems, and operating paradigms. Each pattern of change is associated with different types of organizational learning. In this conceptual article, adopting an organizational learning perspective and building upon organizational change models, we present two potential change and learning pathways that extension and advisory organizations can follow to cope with digitalization: morphostasis and morphogenesis. Morphostatic change has a transitional nature and helps organizations survive by adapting to the new environmental conditions. Organizations that follow this pathway learn by recognizing and correcting errors. This way, they increase their competence in specific services and activities. Morphogenetic change, on the other hand, occurs when organizations acknowledge the need to move beyond existing operating paradigms, redefine their purposes, and explore new possibilities. By transforming themselves, organizations learn new ways to understand and interpret contextual cues. We conclude by presenting some factors that explain extension and advisory organizations’ tendency to morphostasis.

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Section: Agricultural Digitalization As a Punctuational Changementioning

confidence: 99%

Extension and Advisory Organizations on the Road to the Digitalization of Animal Farming: An Organizational Learning Perspective

Charatsari

Lioutas

Rosa

et al. 2020

Animals

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“…Farm Hack and open-source FarmOS encourage users to share their perspectives and learn together, without aiming to make a profit or nudge users towards certain solutions. Open blockchains, as defined by Lemeilleur et al (2019), could also help facilitate the extension of environmental certification by generating automatic, transparent contracts for participating smallholders or cooperatives (Lemeilleur et al, 2019). Perhaps these examples can be replicated to pursue sustainable practices that achieve food security while respecting farmer autonomy across the world.…”

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Searching for sustainability in the digital agriculture debate: an alternative approach for a systemic transition

Cobby

2020

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One of the key challenges for agriculture today is feeding an increasing population without contributing to climate change. Increasingly, digital agriculture is discussed as a new sociotechnical regime that could help limit emissions for farmers worldwide. While sustainability is an important issue, recent papers in the field of digital agriculture do not address the problem directly. After a literature review, this paper will focus on the importance of shared perspectives as enablers in socio-technical transitions. This paper argues that the myth of the digital sublime could act in favour of the existing and unsustainable model of agriculture. This is partly a result of hardware production and connectivity already being resource-intensive. Precisely because of this high environmental impact, the following discussion will employ the legacy of the Green Revolution to highlight the importance of precaution in deploying digital agriculture. In theory, in order to address the shortcomings of the current system, private sector companies are developing proprietary software solutions that could in practice entrench unsustainable business models. As an alternative, this paper suggests, existing open-source platforms that encourage not-for-profit collaborations between farmers should be scaled up. Through bottom-up processes, future researchers and developers should seek ways to place sustainability at the centre of their analyses, and encourage the adoption of practices that can be tailored to the diverse needs of farmers. Ultimately, stakeholders in digital agriculture should understand that sustainability principles must be encoded at all stages in the deployment of digital agriculture technologies.

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A Review on Blockchain Technology in Food and Agriculture Sectors

Niknejad

Nazari

Hussin

2021

2021 7th International Conference on Research and Innovation in Information Systems (ICRIIS)

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Uncertain impacts of new technologies: the case of digital agriculture and blockchains

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Extension and Advisory Organizations on the Road to the Digitalization of Animal Farming: An Organizational Learning Perspective

Extension and Advisory Organizations on the Road to the Digitalization of Animal Farming: An Organizational Learning Perspective

Searching for sustainability in the digital agriculture debate: an alternative approach for a systemic transition

A Review on Blockchain Technology in Food and Agriculture Sectors

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