{"id":3475,"date":"2023-07-04T15:07:35","date_gmt":"2023-07-04T15:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biomaterialities.de\/de\/project\/?p=3475"},"modified":"2023-09-01T09:45:21","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T09:45:21","slug":"sarah-hackfort-unlocking-sustainability-the-power-of-corporate-lock-ins-and-how-they-shape-digital-agriculture-in-germany-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biomaterialities.de\/de\/project\/sarah-hackfort-unlocking-sustainability-the-power-of-corporate-lock-ins-and-how-they-shape-digital-agriculture-in-germany-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Hackfort: &#8220;Unlocking sustainability? The power of corporate lock-ins and how they shape digital agriculture in Germany&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"penci-column column-2-3\"><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sarah Hackfort published an article on &#8220;Unlocking sustainability? The power of corporate lock-ins and how they shape digital agriculture in Germany&#8221; in the Journal of Rural Studies.<\/p>\n<p>The article has been published open access.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><br \/>\nThe digital transformation of agriculture is widely presented as a path to sustainability and a win-win strategy that benefits the environment, farmers, and consumers alike. However, recent studies show how the digital economy is characterized by monopolystructures, market concentration and corporate power that determine patterns of control over digital technology, distribution of benefits and value creation from data. In the field of agriculture, there is a lack of empirical research on lock-ins that examines in detail the logic of these effects, the actors, and the power dynamics behind them. Yet such insights are exactly what is needed to better understand the effects and to break unsustainable lock-ins towards more sustainable agri-food systems. Drawing on the literature on the political economy of food and agriculture, and on studies of innovation and sustainability transitions, this article aims to fill this research gap. Based on an empirical case study in Germany, it identifies systemic, technological, data, legal, soft, and discursive lock-ins that reinforce existing power relations and farmers&#8217; dependence on corporate agro-industrial farming models. It concludes that sustainable transformations in agriculture require a disruption of the identified lock-ins at multiple levels.<\/p>\n<p><strong><\/div>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"penci-column column-last column-1-3\"><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href='https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0743016723001316' class='pencisc-button pencisc-button__48322392' style='background-color:#A9F5E1;border-color:#A9F5E1;border-radius:5px;margin-bottom:20px;'><i class=\"fa fa-book-open\"><\/i>Get Article<\/a><\/p>\n<style>a.pencisc-button.pencisc-button__48322392:hover{ background-color:#01DFA5 !important;border-color:#01DFA5 !important;}<\/style>\n<p><strong>Cite as<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hackfort, S. (2023). Unlocking sustainability? The power of corporate lock-ins and how they shape digital agriculture in Germany. <i>Journal of Rural Studies<\/i>, <i>101<\/i>, 103065. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jrurstud.2023.103065\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jrurstud.2023.103065<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"clearfix\"><\/div>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","inline_featured_image":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Sarah Hackfort: &quot;Unlocking sustainability? The power of corporate lock-ins and how they shape digital agriculture in Germany&quot; BioMaterialities |<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"BIOMATERIALITIES Research Project. 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