Doctoral Dissertation Research: Financial Investments and Digital Technologies in Industrial Farming

博士论文研究：工业化农业中的金融投资和数字技术

• 批准号: 1918118
• 负责人: Gary Wilder
• 金额: $ 1.95万
• 依托单位: CUNY Graduate School University Center
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-11-15 至 2022-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1918118&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Financial; Investments

In the past two decades, startup companies all around the world have deeply transformed everyday lives with digital technologies. Recent research has raised awareness to the multiple effects of these new businesses and the technologies they develop. They have impacted multiple sectors, such as the hospitality industry, transportation, logistics, and retail. Moreover, these startups work with venture capital and private equity, attracting aggressive investing behaviors. Although we typically associate these transformations in urban spaces, startups are now becoming important in the rural world. Agricultural startups develop software and hardware that promise farmers to increase their productivity, reduce environmental pollution, and create better working conditions. This research aims to investigate the impacts of startups and digital technologies on agricultural production, on economic transactions and on the everyday life of rural actors. Understanding contemporary agrarian transformations is critical for developing programs and policies that create balanced economic conditions. In addition to providing funding for the training of a graduate student in anthropology in scientific methods of rigorous data collection and analysis, the project would improve scientific understanding by broadly disseminating its findings to organizations invested in formulating policies around the use of digital technologies in the agribusiness sector.Ana Flavia Badue, under the supervision of Dr. Gary Wilder of the City University of New York Graduate Center, will explore the socioeconomic and political impacts of industrial farming digitization by startup entrepreneurs and venture capital investors. This research will be undertaken in Brazil, where hundreds of agricultural startups have emerged in the past two years. As Brazil is among the largest producers of agricultural commodities in the world, the transformations that occur in the country are relevant to understand the impact of digital technologies and of new business models in the rural sectors across the globe. This research will be composed of (1) archival research to map how technologies in the past shaped industrial agriculture; of (2) interviews with startup founders, farmers who adopt digital technologies and financial investors who work with agricultural startups in order to understand the motivations, interests and perspectives of different actors engaged with agrarian transformations since the emergence of agricultural startups; and of (3) observation of events and farms to identify the everyday impacts of the technologies and investments on industrial agriculture. Gathering data in loco is an opportunity to observe how changes take place in real time. This research raises awareness to potential unexpected outcomes generated by the recent changes in industrial agriculture, such as global and local inequalities, uneven power relations and economic dependency.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

在过去的二十年中，世界各地的初创公司通过数字技术深深地改变了日常生活。最近的研究提高了人们对这些新业务及其开发技术的多种影响的认识。他们影响了多个部门，例如酒店业，运输，物流和零售。此外，这些初创公司与风险投资和私募股权合作，吸引了积极的投资行为。尽管我们通常将这些转变与城市空间相关联，但在农村世界中，初创企业现在变得越来越重要。农业初创公司开发了软件和硬件，可以保证农民提高生产率，降低环境污染并创造更好的工作条件。这项研究旨在调查初创企业和数字技术对农业生产，经济交易和农村参与者日常生活的影响。了解当代农业转型对于制定平衡经济条件的计划和政策至关重要。除了为在严格的数据收集和分析的科学方法中培训人类学研究生的资金外，该项目还将通过将其发现大量传播给对数字技术在AgriBusiness sector的制定政策进行投资的组织来提高科学理解，这将在Agribusiness sector.ana Flavia Badeorial.ana flavia Badeerient anderione Sociotion interio new new new new new new new new new new new new new new new new new new new new初创企业家和风险投资者对工业农业数字化的政治影响。这项研究将在巴西进行，在过去的两年中，数百家农业初创公司出现了。由于巴西是世界上最大的农产品生产商之一，因此该国发生的转型与了解数字技术和新商业模式对全球农村部门的影响有关。这项研究将由（1）档案研究组成，以绘制过去工业农业的技术如何； （2）对初创企业创始人，采用数字技术的农民和与农业初创公司合作的金融投资者的访谈，以了解自从农业创业公司出现以来与农业转型的不同参与者的动机，利益和观点；以及（3）观察事件和农场，以确定技术和投资对工业农业的日常影响。在Loco中收集数据是一个机会，可以观察如何实时发生变化。这项研究提高了人们对工业农业最新变化（例如全球和地方不平等，不均匀的电力关系和经济依赖性）产生的潜在意外结果的认识。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子和更广泛影响的审查标准来通过评估来通过评估来支持的。