No one has to lose: rethinking power in the data economy of food systems
At the CFS High-Level Forum on 30 June, the Alliance argued that inclusive AI governance must be designed with farmers, not for them. Jacob van Etten, Digital Inclusion director for the Alliance, outlined how data, participation and shared governance can make digital food systems fairer.
- Artificial Intelligence
- Data systems
- food systems
- Digital governance
No one has to lose: rethinking power in the data economy of food systems
At the CFS High-Level Forum on 30 June, the Alliance argued that inclusive AI governance must be designed with farmers, not for them. Jacob van Etten, Digital Inclusion director for the Alliance, outlined how data, participation and shared governance can make digital food systems fairer.
Who benefits when food systems go digital, and who gets left out? This question was central to the Committee on World Food Security's High-Level Forum on AI, Digitalization and Data Governance.
The Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT had two seats in the room: Elisabetta Gotor, Leader of the Policy, Inclusion and Socio-economic Analysis for Impact and Learning Programme, moderating the Forum, and Jacob van Etten, Director of the Digital Inclusion Research Programme, speaking on Exploring the frontiers of data and innovative AI governance needs in food security. What follows is the shape of their argument.