Let’s be clear, this article is not intended to totally demonise and discredit the use of digital tools in agriculture. Or, said perhaps a little less naively, that these actors do not really want to consider insofar as these issues are not totally consistent with their objectives and personal interests. The human and social sciences point to numerous ethical, social, societal, cultural and political issues that the historical agricultural players and the new digital entrants do not seem to have grasped. Although some researchers in these disciplines have been working on digital agriculture for several years, the subject has really exploded in the literature over the last 4-5 years (just look at the publication dates of the articles cited in the bibliography). As a discipline that is still too little known and followed by technologists, I let the humanities and social sciences have their say in this synthesis, often through targeted extracts from their research work.
This work is the result of numerous readings of scientific articles in the humanities and social sciences on digital agriculture (the entire scientific bibliography is available at the bottom of the article), supplemented by personal reflections. Here, no overly technical subject or long interviews with professionals in the sector. This article is very different from those I have written in the past. I wanted to show these digital tools in a different way… Big Data, Connected Objects, Robotics, Decision Support Tools, Block Chain, Artificial Intelligence, 5G … – these technologies and buzzwords that are supposed to respond to all the challenges facing agriculture are increasingly present in the mouths of the players who gravitate in and around the agricultural ecosystem, even if it is not certain that these players have really understood their scope. While La Tribune recently reported that French start-ups in the Agtech and Foodtech sector – meaning digital technologies applied to agriculture and agri-food – had raised no less than 560 million euros over the year 2020, putting France in first place in Europe and fifth place in the world in terms of investments, we now learn that the French government, through its Minister of Agriculture Julien Denormandie and its Secretary of State for Digital Transition Cédric O, is launching a vast plan of more than €200 million to support Agtech and Foodtech companies: French AgriTech.įor its promoters, digital technology in agriculture is presented as both a revolution and a necessity.
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