
Matt Canfield
@mattccanfield
Anthropologist and socio-legal scholar, Asst Prof @VVI_Leiden. Tweeting on food & ag, labor, and politics. He/him.
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07-08-2014 16:42:37
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**Reminder** Call for Papers for our Global Transformations and Governance Challenges Workshop ➡️ The Promise and Perils of Human Rights for Governing Digital Platforms Apply by *end of September* 👇



Must read cover story in The Nation telling the story of the corporate takeover of African agricultural and seed systems. thenation.com/article/world/…. Featuring the important work of Joeva Rock ACBIO GRAIN Timothy A. Wise


"In this tour de force, writer Rocker, Muehlebach offers readers ethnographic insight into the vital issue of water sovereignty" @Polar_Journal @AndreaMuehleba1 Kailey Rocker wordpress.com/post/polarjour…


Noticed how data is the latest phantasmagorium to “empower the poor with knowledge” ? Matt Canfield and I boiled our JPS paper into an essay about the coloniality of "data gaps" & the upshots of "Feeding the World with More Data." botpopuli.net/feeding-the-wo… thanks to Bot Populi!

Our bonus third feature, authored by Maywa Montenegro & Matt Canfield tracks recent developments in the #digitalization of #agriculture & the complex politics around the datasets that are generated from our food systems. botpopuli.net/feeding-the-wo…

Is closing ‘data gaps‘ a solution to reduce hunger? Smallholder farmers, indigenous, and worker communities already have enough data and knowledge. Paper by Matt Canfield Maywa Montenegro on #digitalizaion of #agruculture. botpopuli.net/feeding-the-wo…


Re-thinking the Green Revolution with Glenn Stone theconversation.com/the-green-revo…


✍️In this essay, Maywa Montenegro & Matt Canfield explore how the capitalist paradigm of agricultural productivism has resulted in disastrous consequences for human health & the environment. #DataProductivism #Agriculture #GlobalChallenges Thread ⬇️ (1/4) botpopuli.net/feeding-the-wo…


Join our CFS side-event to discuss data governance in the digitalization of the food system 📆Tuesday 24 October 🕐8:30 CET w/CSIPM, Michael Fakhri & Gobierno de México, moderated by Patti Naylor 🔗Register fao.zoom.us/meeting/regist… ℹ️csm4cfs.org/csipm-side-eve… #CFSData #CFS51



Today marks the launch of our new Tech Policy Press symposium ✨The Promise and Perils of Human Rights for Governing Digital Platforms✨ The series seeks to problematize assumptions that human rights are the natural framework for platform governance 👇 techpolicy.press/the-promise-an…