Although connecting small-scale producers with digital technologies holds great promise for improving livelihoods, there is a risk that this new source of agricultural data will become monetized and benefit companies which hold the data. Emerging trends towards decentralization and the proliferation of Web3 technology platforms can open new doors for data sovereignty in agriculture by ensuring producers maintain control of their own data and have opportunities to accrue benefits as a result.

This session at ICTforAg 2022 co-created by Digital Green showed how these emerging technological concepts represent promising developments for agriculture

Speakers:

• Rikin Gandhi, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Digital Green

• Hemendra Mathur, Co-founder, ThinkAg, Bharat Innovation Fund

• Alesha Miller, VP, Strategy

• Éliane Ubalijoro, PhD, Executive Director of Sustainability in the Digital Age and the Future Earth Montreal Hub, Future Earth, McGill University

• Revathi Kollegala, Executive Director, Regen Foundation