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2. ‘You can't eat data’?: Moving beyond the misconfigured innovations of smart farming
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Fraser, Alistair (author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2021-06-17
- Published:
- Netherlands: Elsevier
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12812
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Rural Studies
- Journal Title Details:
- Volume 91, Pages 200 - 207
- Notes:
- 8pgs, This paper presents a critical examination of smart farming. I follow other critical analyses in recognizing the centrality of innovation processes in generating smart farming products, services, arrangements, and problematic outcomes. I subsequently use insights from critical human geography scholarship on the significance of understanding topological transformations to move beyond interpretations that identify only a narrow range of smart farming problems, such as a lack of coordination or limited uptake by farmers. Instead, I examine a broader set of challenges produced by smart farming developments. The overriding concern, I argue, is that smart farming unfolds via the production of numerous ‘misconfigured innovations.’ Using insights from literature on responsible research and innovation I then probe the stakes of looking beyond the misconfigured innovations of smart farming and discuss how new technologies might come to play a role in producing emancipatory smart farming. I pay attention to research on the ‘internet of people,’ which paints a stark new picture of social life generally, and in particular how rural life might be computed and calculated according to new conceptualizations of sociality and spatiality.
3. Definitions of “rural” and “urban” and understandings of economic transformation: Evidence from Tanzania
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Wineman, Ayala (author), Yélognissè Alia, Didier (author), and Anderson, C. Leigh (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2020-10-01
- Published:
- International: Elsevier
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 201 Document Number: D11859
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Rural Studies
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 79
- Notes:
- 14 pages, via online journal, Designing effective policies for economic development often entails categorizing populations by their rural or urban status. Yet there exists no universal definition of what constitutes an “urban” area, and countries alternately apply criteria related to settlement size, population density, or economic advancement. In this study, we explore the implications of applying different urban definitions, focusing on Tanzania for illustrative purposes. Toward this end, we refer to nationally representative household survey data from Tanzania, collected in 2008 and 2014, and categorize households as urban or rural using seven distinct definitions. These are based on official administrative categorizations, population densities, daytime and nighttime satellite imagery, local economic characteristics, and subjective assessments of Google Earth images. These definitions are then applied in some common analyses of demographic and economic change. We find that these urban definitions produce different levels of urbanization. Thus, Tanzania's urban population share based on administrative designations was 28% in 2014, though this varies from 12% to 39% with alternative urban definitions. Some indicators of economic development, such as the level of rural poverty or the rate of rural electrification, also shift markedly when measured with different urban definitions. The periodic (official) recategorization of places as rural or urban, as occurs with the decennial census, results in a slower rate of rural poverty decline than would be measured with time-constant boundaries delimiting rural Tanzania. Because the outcomes of analysis are sensitive to the urban definitions used, policy makers should give attention to the definitions that underpin any statistics used in their decision making.
4. The database race
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Wareham, Jared (author)
- Format:
- Commentary
- Publication Date:
- 2020-09
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 201 Document Number: D11779
- Journal Title:
- Drovers
- Journal Title Details:
- : 54
- Notes:
- Online from publisher., Author describes the race that is on "to assemble and prove a tool that can deliver precision data and logistics throughout beef production spaces," connecting producers with consumers.
5. #Goingtothefair: a social media listening analysis of agricultural fairs
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Mahoney, Julie A (author) and Widmar, Nicole J O (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2020-07
- Published:
- England: Oxford University Press
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 203 Document Number: D12230
- Journal Title:
- Translational Animal Science
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 4 Issue 3
- Notes:
- 13 pages, Agricultural fairs provide one of the last frontiers, and largest stages, for showcasing livestock agriculture to the public. However, public funding, attendance revenue, animal biosecurity, and public health concerns are all aspects worthy of conversation and increased research attention given the interaction between livestock animals and the general public in fair and festival settings. A prominent social media listening and data analytics platform was used to quantify online and social media chatter concerning agricultural fairs during a 27-mo period. A general search for online media referencing agricultural fair keywords was designed; social and online media mentions of agricultural fairs (n = 2,091,350 mentions) were further queried according to their reference to livestock, fair food, or the major agricultural product producing species of dairy and beef cattle (n = 68,900), poultry (n = 39,600), and swine (n = 31,250). Numbers of search results were found to be seasonal and Twitter was the single largest domain for all fair-related results; in contrast, the majority of livestock-related media was generated by news sources rather than from Twitter. On a weekly basis, the percentage of fair livestock mentions with species-specific reference was highly variable ranging from 0% to 86.8% for cattle, 0% to 85.7% for poultry, and 0% to 76.9% for swine. In addition to quantifying total search hits or mentions, the positivity/negativity of the search results was analyzed using natural language processing capabilities. The net sentiment quantified is the total percentage of positive posts minus the percentage of negative posts, which results in a necessarily bounded net sentiment between −100% and +100%. Overall net sentiment associated with mentions of agricultural fairs was positive; the topics garnering the highest positive sentiments were fair food and cattle (both 98% positive). Online discussion pertaining to agricultural fairs and swine was overall positive despite references to swine flu outbreaks. In conclusion, livestock and animal products had positive net sentiment over the time period studied, but there are multiple aspects of agricultural fairs worthy of further investigation and continued vigilance, including zoonotic disease risk and public perceptions of livestock industries.
6. Big data in agriculture: does the new oil lead to sustainability?
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Lioutas, Evagelos D. (author) and Charatsari, Chrysanthi (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2020-02
- Published:
- Netherlands: Elsevier
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 203 Document Number: D12235
- Journal Title:
- Geoforum
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 109
- Notes:
- 3 pages, Big data represent a new productive factor (the "new oil" for advocates) that generates new realities in agriculture. By adding an extra "cyber" dimension to current farming systems, big data lead to the emergence of new, complex cyber-physical-social systems. However, our understanding of the sustainability of such systems is still at a rudimental stage. In this critical review we attempt to shed some light on this topic, by identifying and presenting some issues that put in doubt the sustainability of big data agriculture. By using a punctuated equilibria lens, we argue that despite their contribution to the economic and environmental performance of farming, big data act as a speciation mechanism. Hence, they lead to new forms of intraspecific, interspecific and intergeneric competition, thus putting at risk the most vulnerable players of the game. We conclude by pointing out that to holistically address the interrelation between big data and agricultural sustainability we need a hybrid research line, which will combine the qualities of both technology-oriented research and critical social science.
7. Harnessing big data to support the conservation and rehabilitation of mangrove forests globally
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Worthington, Thomas A. (author), Andradi-Brown, Dominic A. (author), Bhargava, Radhika (author), Buelow, Christina (author), Bunting, Pete (author), Duncan, Clare (author), Fatoyinbo, Lola (author), Friess, Daniel A. (author), Goldberg, Liza (author), Hilarides, Lambert (author), Lagomasino, David (author), Landis, Emily (author), Longley-Wood, Kate (author), Lovelock, Catherine E. (author), Murray, Nicholas J. (author), Narayan, Siddharth (author), Rosenqvist, Ake (author), Sievers, Michael (author), Simard, Marc (author), Thomas, Nathan (author), van Eijk, Pieter (author), Zganjar, Chris (author), and Spalding, Mark (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2020
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 201 Document Number: D11696
- Journal Title:
- One Earth
- Journal Title Details:
- 2(5) : 429-443
- Notes:
- 27 pages., Authors provide an overview of recent and forthcoming global datasets and explore the challenges of translating these new analyses into policy action and on-the-ground conservation of mangrove forests. They describe a new platform for visualizing and disseminating these datasets to the global science community and other audiences - and they highlight future directions and collaborations.
8. Utilization of text mining as a big data analysis tool for food science and nutrition
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Tao, Dandan (author), Yang, Pengkun (author), and Feng, Hao (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2020
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 166 Document Number: D11679
- Journal Title:
- Comprehensive Reviews of Food Science and Food Safety
- Journal Title Details:
- 19 : 875-894
- Notes:
- 20 pages., Via online from the University of Illinois website., Authors' review provided an overview of the data sources, computational methods, and applications of text data in the food industry. Applications of text data analysis were illustrated with respect to food safety and food fraud surveillance, dietary pattern characterization, consumer-opinion mining, new-product development, food knowledge discovery, food supply-chain management, and online food systems.
9. "if they don't tell us what they do with it, why would we trust them?" trust, transparency and benefit-sharing in Smart Farming
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Jakku, Emma (author), Taylor, Bruce (author), Fleming, Aysha (author), Mason, Claire (author), Fielke, Simon (author), Sounness, Chris (author), and Thorburn, Peter (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019-12
- Published:
- Netherlands: Elsevier
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 203 Document Number: D12272
- Journal Title:
- NJAS-WAGENINGEN JOURNAL OF LIFE SCIENCES
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 90- 91
- Notes:
- 13 pages, Advances in Smart Farming and Big Data applications have the potential to help agricultural industries meet productivity and sustainability challenges. However, these benefits are unlikely to be realised if the social implications of these technological innovations are not adequately considered by those who promote them. Big Data applications are intrinsically socio-technical; their development and deployment are a product of social interactions between people, institutional and regulatory settings, as well as the technology itself. This paper explores the socio-technical factors and conditions that influence the development of Smart Farming and Big Data applications, using a multi-level perspective on transitions combined with social practice theory. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 26 Australian grain farmers and industry stakeholders to elicit their perspectives on benefits and risks of these changes. The analysis shows that issues related to trust are central concerns for many participants. These include procedural concerns about transparency and distributional concerns about who will benefit from access to and use of "farmers' data". These concerns create scepticism about the value of `smart' technologies amongst some industry stakeholders, especially farmers. It also points to a divergence of expectations and norms between actors and institutions at the regime and niche levels in the emerging transition towards Smart Farming. Bridging this divide will require niche level interventions to enhance the agency of farmers and their local networks in these transactions, and, the cooperative design of new institutions at regime level to facilitate the fair and transparent allocation of risk and benefit in farming data information chains.
10. Application of big data in agricultural informationization in Shandong Province under the background of Internet+
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Gan, Xinling (author) and Li, Yong (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019
- Published:
- China
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 165 Document Number: D11665
- Journal Title:
- Asian Agricultural Research
- Journal Title Details:
- 11(4) : 1-3
- Notes:
- 4 pages., Online via AgEconSearch, Authors explain the basic concepts of Internet+ and big data, analyze the main problems in the application of big data technology in agricultural informationization, summarize corresponding solutions from the aspects of government guidance, financial input, open sharing of agricultural big data, big data storage and processing, data mining, etc., and describe prospects ahead in the province.
11. Outsourcing ag sales activities
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Madson, Arron (author), Kelley, Jay (author), and Weldon, Jackie (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2018-10
- Published:
- USA: Henderson Communications L.L.C., Adel, Iowa.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D09899
- Journal Title:
- Agri Marketing
- Journal Title Details:
- 56(8) : 29-32
12. Left to other peoples' devices? A political economy perspective on the big data revolution in development
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Mann, Laura (author)
- Format:
- Article
- Publication Date:
- 2018-01
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 198 Document Number: D09686
- Journal Title:
- Development and Change
- Journal Title Details:
- 49(1) : 3-36
13. The power of agricultural data
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Woodard, Josua D. (author), Sherrick, Bruce J. (author), Atwood, Deborah H. (author), Blair, Robert (author), Fogel, Greg (author), Goeser, Nicholas (author), Gold, Barry (author), Lewis, Josette (author), Mattson, Carl (author), Moseley, Jim (author), O'Mara, Collin (author), Piotti, John (author), Salas, Bill (author), Scarlett, Lynn (author), Duncanson, Kristin Weeks (author), and Yoder, Fred (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2018
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 199 Document Number: D09927
- Journal Title:
- Science
- Journal Title Details:
- 362(6413) : 410-411
14. Farmers using co-ops to handle "big data"
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Borst, Alan (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- July-August 2017
- Published:
- USA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 170 Document Number: D09029
- Journal Title:
- Rural Cooperatives
- Journal Title Details:
- 84(4) : 24-25
15. Highlights of the Farm Bureau big data survey - May 2016
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- American Farm Bureau Federation, Washington, D.C.
- Format:
- Research report
- Publication Date:
- 2016-05
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 154 Document Number: D07059
- Notes:
- Online via Agriculture.com. 3 pages.
16. Drones and data: an update on farmer data
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Thatcher, Mary Kay (author / American Farm Bureau Federation)
- Format:
- Presentation
- Publication Date:
- 2016-02-25
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 156 Document Number: D07438
- Notes:
- Presentation at the U.S.Department of Agriculture Outlook Forum, Arlington, Virginia, February 25, 2016. 44 pages.
17. HortiCube: a platform for transparent, trusted data sharing in the food supply chain
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Verhoosel, Jack (author), Van Bekkum, Michael (author), and Verwaart, Tim (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2016
- Published:
- Netherlands
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 158 Document Number: D07638
- Journal Title:
- International Journal of Food System Dynamics
18. The green data revolution
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Gustafson, Mike (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2016-01
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D06565
- Journal Title:
- Agri Marketing
- Journal Title Details:
- 54(1): 22-24
19. Feeding the world with data
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Carlson, Kris (author)
- Format:
- Blog
- Publication Date:
- 2015-09
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 202 Document Number: D12119
- Notes:
- Online from ThomsonReuters. 4 pages., Emphasizes the critical role that data and innovation can play in global food security.
20. Big data in precision agriculture: weather forecasting for future farming
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Bendre, M. R. (author), Thool, R. C. (author), and Thool, V. R. (author)
- Format:
- Conference proceedings
- Publication Date:
- 2015
- Published:
- India: IEEE, New York City, New York.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 162 Document Number: D08119
- Notes:
- 2015 1st International Conference on Next Generation Computing Technologies (NGCT). pp. 744-750
21. Digital life in 2025: 15 theses about the digital future
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Anderson, Janna (author) and Rainie, Lee (author)
- Format:
- Report
- Publication Date:
- 2014-03-11
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 141 Document Number: D06265
- Notes:
- Accessed August 6, 2015, Pew Research Center. 6 pages.
22. How connected are our farms?
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Whitacre, Brian E. (author), Mark, Tyler B. (author), and Griffin, Terry W. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2014
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 6 Document Number: D10217
- Journal Title:
- Choices
- Journal Title Details:
- 29(3) : 1-9
- Notes:
- Via online.
23. The future of big data
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Anderson, Janna (author) and Rainie, Lee (author)
- Format:
- Report
- Publication Date:
- 2012-07-20
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 141 Document Number: D06269
- Notes:
- Accessed August 6, 2015, Pew Research Center. 9 pages.
24. Critical questions for Big Data: provocations for a cultural, technological and scholarly phenomenon
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Boyd, Danah (author) and Crawford, Kate (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2012-06
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 141 Document Number: D06310
- Journal Title:
- Information, Communication and Society
- Journal Title Details:
- 15(5) : 662-679