Abstract

This paper explores the ‘digital farmer’ assemblage as an illuminating case of the behavioural turn in international development, in which smallholder farmers are digitally steered towards behaviours deemed necessary for market inclusion. Central to these interventions are digital platforms that function as human technologies to craft new kinds of market subject that can be inserted into value chains and wider circuits of capital and data. As such, they represent both a continuation of the ‘long’ Green Revolution and a point of departure. The narrowing of options built into their design is likely to further erode processes of skilling central to agricultural practice, while loosening the social ties of mutuality and reciprocity in which such processes are embedded, intensifying vulnerability to climate and market uncertainties.

摘要

本文将“数字农民”组合作为国际发展中行为转变的一个有启发性的案例进行探讨，其中小农被数字引导，转向被认为是市场包容所必需的行为。这些干预措施的核心是数字平台，它作为人类技术来制作新型市场主体，这些主体可以插入价值链和更广泛的资本和数据循环中。因此，它们既代表了“长期”绿色革命的延续，也是一个起点。其设计中选项的缩小可能会进一步削弱农业实践核心的技能过程，同时放松这些过程所嵌入的相互性和互惠性的社会联系，加剧对气候和市场不确定性的脆弱性。