Please check our latest guest contribution @ the institutional landscapes project on “Digitalization for Financialization – How New Agricultural Tools Are Facilitating Farmland Investment”. https://institutionallandscapes.org/contribution/18-digitalization-for-financialization-how-new-agricultural-tools-are-facilitating-farmland-investment/
Until recently, scholars have solely focused on the assetization of farmland by financial investors, somewhat unnoticing a parallel trend: the rise of investment into ‘digital agriculture’. Emily Duncan shows how finance’s run on AG tech is intimately entangled with financialization not just because it is pushed by financial investors, but also because AG tech is poised to reformat agriculture in such ways that it becomes more amenable to an effective assetization.
You can check out some of Emily’s and colleagues’ work here:
- Duncan E (2023) The Affordances of Digital Agricultural Technologies (Doctoral dissertation, University of Guelph).
- Duncan E, Rotz S, Magnan A, et al. (2022) Disciplining Land through Data: The Role of Agricultural Technologies in Farmland Assetisation. Sociologia Ruralis 62(2): 231-249. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/soru.12369 .
- Duncan E and Magnan A (2023) Exploring the Growing Links between Digital Agriculture, Finance Capital, and Farmland Investors and Managers in North America. The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food, 29(2), 1-14. DOI: https://doi.org/10.48416/ijsaf.v29i2.557.
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