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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt">Agriculture is an important source of livelihood for millions of small holder farmers globally. Digital technologies</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt">
</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt">plays a crucial role in promoting agricultural productivity, improving rural livelihoods, and increasing small holder farmer incomes.
</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt"> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt">Smallholder farmers manage over 80 percent of the world’s estimated 500 million farms, providing over 80 percent of the food consumed across the developing
world, and contributing significantly to poverty reduction and food security.</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt"> </span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt">With personal data fast becoming the world’s most valuable commodity, more research needs to be done into the rise of Digital Feudalism and its societal impacts.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"; font-style:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt">Do small holder farmers really benefit equally, or even at all, from the benefits of data sharing?</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"; font-style:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-style:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-family:"Helvetica Neue"; color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt">Do all stakeholders in the agricultural sector have the same access and control to these insights?</span><span style="font-style:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-family:"Helvetica Neue"; color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-style:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-family:"Helvetica Neue"; color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt">How can we develop and empower ICT capacity for small holder farmers, farmer cooperatives</span><span style="font-style:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-family:"Helvetica Neue"; color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt">
</span><span style="font-style:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-family:"Helvetica Neue"; color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt">etc to help reduce digital feudalism?</span><br>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt">GODAN</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt">
</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt">article on</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt">
</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt">Ethical dimensions of Digital Feudalism in Agriculture might be of interest. Details at
</span><a href="https://www.godan.info/news/ethical-dimensions-digital-feudalism-agriculture"><span style="text-decoration:underline; color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt">https://www.godan.info/news/ethical-dimensions-digital-feudalism-agriculture</span></a></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt">We welcome all interested colleagues to</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt">
</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt">join the </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt">GODAN Data Rights and Responsible Data Working Grou</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt">p [1] and share ideas for the Agriculture
Data Code of Conduct [2].</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt"> </span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt">With</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt">
</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt">the rise of Digital Feudalism and</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt">
</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt">its impacts on Location data, it raises many ethical questions. I am now working on an article</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt">
</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt">looking into Ethics of Digital Feudalism in Location Data in Agriculture.</span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt">Are there any examples of guidelines or code of conduct for mobile applications collecting location data in Agriculture. Are there any journal publications or studies in this area.</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt">
</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt">If so, please email me the publication details so I can learn more and</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt">
</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt">reference them in my article. Thanks.</span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt">Best wishes,</span></p>
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