Abstract
4th Industrial Revolution technologies that blur the lines across physical, digital and biological domains have entered seed systems. The digitalisation of seeds' DNA is generating the unstoppable growth of big data on digital sequence information (DSI). The paper analyses the legal vacuum for DSI, which aggravates the dematerialisation and fragmentation of seed, rendering it easier to control under legal, technological, social and logistical enclosures. Open-source seed is explored as a governance mechanism across physical and digital spheres. DSI emerges as a critical juncture for seed movements, revealing how the construction of seed and food sovereignty is a digital and technological affair.
| Original language | English |
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| Number of pages | 29 |
| Journal | The Journal of Peasant Studies |
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| Publication status | E-pub ahead of print - 17 Oct 2022 |
Keywords
- Open-source seed
- seed systems
- 4th Industrial Revolution
- digital commons
- digital sequence information
- seed sovereignty
- enclosures
- big open data
- dematerialisation
- digital feudalism
- in situ
- ex situ
- in silico
- res communis
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Cultural Studies
- Anthropology
- Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
