Agriculture 4.0: Bioinformationalism and Postdigital Hybrid Assemblages

Price, Catherine Waddams

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-95006-4_7

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“…To illustrate this, I turn my attention very briefly to commodified seeds. Commodified seeds, especially those which are gene edited or genetically modified, are produced through technological processes (Price, 2022a;Shiva, 2016). These commodified seeds reduce biological diversity as well as dispossessing farmers of their seed rights (Shiva, 2016).…”

Section: Industrialised Agriculture and The Pollinator Crisismentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Without insect pollinators, power and control of crop pollination lies with those who develop and design artificial pollinators. The companies designing and developing artificial pollination technologies do not aim to address the underlying problems of insect pollinator decline such as habitat loss and climate change (Price, 2022a). Not addressing insect pollinator decline means artificial pollination will likely be required.…”

Section: Industrialised Agriculture and The Pollinator Crisismentioning

confidence: 99%

“…If artificial pollination increases industrialised agriculture's productivity and profitability, it is likely to be adopted by large scale farming operations. This may disenfranchise farmers with small agricultural operations especially as they may have skills unsuited to working with digital technologies, a lack of capital, and be situated in rural areas which lack infrastructure (Price, 2022a). Digital technologies such as artificial pollination may reinforce existing power structures .…”

Section: Industrialised Agriculture and The Pollinator Crisismentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This practice already takes place. Since the 1980s, apple trees have been hand pollinated in Sichuan Province, China, due to the decline in pollinator numbers caused by habitat loss and the overuse of pesticides (Partap & Tang, 2012;Price, 2022a). In the UK alone, hand pollination would cost £1.8 billion a year (The Wildlife Trusts, 2022).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Do we need Artificial Pollination if we have Multispecies Justice in the Anthropocene?

Price

2023

EIRJ

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The era we now live in is termed the Anthropocene. Climate change, land use change, pesticide and insecticide use, and pollution are all contributing to pollinator loss. To ensure food crops continue to be pollinated, artificial pollinator technologies are being developed. This article asks the question: do we need artificial pollination if we have multispecies justice in the Anthropocene? Three examples of artificial pollination technologies, Edete, Olombria, and RoboBee, are provided to help address this question. However, the companies designing and developing artificial pollination technologies do not aim to address the underlying problems of pollinator decline such as habitat loss and climate change. Addressing problems such as pollinator loss with the use of digital technology puts humanity onto the course of uncertain futures. For more just futures, there are calls for a turn towards multispecies justice. Considering pollinator loss through the lens of multispecies justice puts us on an altogether different course from that of using artificial pollination. With multispecies justice there is the potential for futures which are democratic, just, diverse, and sustainable for humans and the more-than-human world.

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Section: Industrialised Agriculture and The Pollinator Crisismentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Industrialised Agriculture and The Pollinator Crisismentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Industrialised Agriculture and The Pollinator Crisismentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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