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“Digitization… what?” Often this is the first reaction of farmers who practice regenerative or bio-diverse farming when asked whether they use digital technologies on their farm. GPS-controlled tractors, drones, or …
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The bioeconomy is a political project that focuses on the capitalist production and and utilization of nature for the transition from fossil to bio-based economic and modes of production. The …
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Talk by Sarah Hackfort & Anna Saave: “A Feminist Critique of the High Tech Bioeconomy” at the International Conference of the Center for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies (ZtG)
Talk by Sarah Hackfort & Anna Saave: “A Feminist Critique of the High Tech Bioeconomy”, Nature-Society Relations and the Global Environmental Crisis – Thinking on Climate Change and Sustainability from …
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Dreamlike visions of an intelligent, automated food system are widespread today. A vast eco-system of start-ups, alongwith numerous academic research teams, draws on and informs data reserves held by corporate …
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Online Public Lecture and Discussion: The Immaculate Conception of Data. Agribusiness, Activists and their Shared Politics of the Future
Agribusinesses are among the oldest oligopoly corporations in the world, and their concentration gives them an advantage over other food system actors. Kelly Bronson explores what happens when big data …
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PLAAS ACADEMIC SEMINAR: A Digital Revolution in Agriculture? New technologies and the future of the corporate food regime
Dr. Louisa Prause will hold a virtual seminar with the title “A Digital Revolution in Agriculture? New technologies and the future of the corporate food regime” at the Institute for Poverty, …
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Talk on FAO’s Conference: Opportunities and Challenges in Digital Agriculture: Global Patterns and Policy Issues on the Way towards Sustainable Agriculture
Sarah Hackfort will speak at the FAO’s Global Conference on Sustainable Plant Production (GCP): Innovation, efficiency and resilience, 2-4 November 2022. In the thematic session 6: Mechanization and Digitalization, she will talk …
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ONLINE PUBLIC LECTURE AND DISCUSSION: Drones in the forest: Ambivalences in high-tech conservation from a political geographic perspective
Drones and other remote imaging methods are drastically increasing in forestry, forest management, and conservation. These technologies make it possible to estimate harvestable quantities of forest products as well as …
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On October 18, 2022 at 6 p.m. in the Thaer-Saal at Invalidenstr. 42 of the Humboldt University in Berlin the opening of the photo exhibition by the Mexican artist Daniel …
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Louisa Prause and Alwin Egger discuss in a live podcast format at the digitalisation and sustainability conference Bits & Bäume 2022 the opportunities and challenges of digitization for socially and ecologically …
