Transforming Agriculture and Foodways
eBook - ePub

Transforming Agriculture and Foodways

The Digital-Molecular Convergence

  1. 152 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Transforming Agriculture and Foodways

The Digital-Molecular Convergence

About this book

A wave of innovation driven by the convergence of digital and molecular technologies is transforming food production and ways of eating in the US, Western Europe and Australasia. This book explores a range of contemporary agri-food issues, such as the digitalisation of farm production, aka Precision Agriculture, farmer independence, gene editing, alternative proteins and the rise of app-based home food deliveries.

This is the first book to provide a systemic analysis of technological innovation and its socio-economic consequences in modern food systems, including the 'hollowing out' of rural communities and pronounced industrial concentration. The food system is under growing public pressure to respond to global climate change, but this book finds little evidence of transition to sustainable low-carbon trajectories.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Dedication
  7. Table of Contents
  8. Series Preface
  9. List of Abbreviations
  10. Acknowledgements
  11. 1 Introduction: Technological Convergence and Change in Modern Agro-Food Systems
  12. 2 Precision Agriculture: Big Data Analytics, Farm Support Platforms, and Concentration in the AgTech Space
  13. 3 Precision Agriculture: Adoption, ā€˜Re-Scriptingā€™, Farmer Identity, Path Dependence, and ā€˜Appropriationism 4.0ā€™
  14. 4 Alternative Proteins: Bio-Mimicry, Structuring the New Protein Industry, ā€˜Promissory Narrativesā€™, and ā€˜Substitutionism 4.0ā€™
  15. 5 Agri-Biotechnology and the Failed Promises of the Seed-Chemical Complex, CRISPR and Gene Editing, and Regulatory Capture
  16. 6 Between Physical Space and Digital Space: COVID-19, Platform Capitalism, and Changing Patterns of Food Provisioning
  17. 7 Conclusion: Continuities in Change and Lost Opportunities
  18. Postscript
  19. Notes
  20. References
  21. Index