The ethics of big data in big agriculture
The ethics of big data in big agriculture
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DOI：
10.14763/2016.1.405
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发表时间：
2016-03-01
影响因子：
3.6
通讯作者：
Carbonell, Isabelle M.
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作者：
Carbonell, Isabelle M.
本文探讨了农业大数据的伦理问题，重点关注农民和孟山都等大型农业企业之间的权力不对称。在最近收购气候公司之后，孟山都是目前收购大数据的最著名的生物技术农业综合企业。通过拖拉机上的无线传感器监测或指示农民做出的每一个决定，孟山都现在可以汇总大量以前专有的农业数据，从而在逐田的基础上对美国三分之一或更多的农田提供独特的见解。这种权力不对称可以通过开源数据和公共资助的数据分析工具来重新平衡，这些工具在复杂性和创新性方面与Climate Corp.竞争。
This paper examines the ethics of big data in agriculture, focusing on the power asymmetry between farmers and large agribusinesses like Monsanto. Following the recent purchase of Climate Corp., Monsanto is currently the most prominent biotech agribusiness to buy into big data. With wireless sensors on tractors monitoring or dictating every decision a farmer makes, Monsanto can now aggregate large quantities of previously proprietary farming data, enabling a privileged position with unique insights on a field-by-field basis into a third or more of the US farmland. This power asymmetry may be rebalanced through open-sourced data, and publicly-funded data analytic tools which rival Climate Corp. in complexity and innovation for use in the public domain.