ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the digitalisation of agriculture in multiple jurisdictions, discussing how tech’s creeping presence is leading to multidimensional displacement. Through illustrations of projects between big tech and governments, the chapter examines how partnerships are often configured in secret, with questions for accountability and transparency in terms of procurement, but also in terms of projected impact. Working with the concept of sector transgressions, the chapter introduces the idea of socio-material transgressions as they manifest particularly in aspects related to land governance, food security, and knowledge systems, and how these contribute to creating new forms of displacement of people, communities, and cultures that are rooted in agriculture.
