The agricultural sector is undergoing a period of rapid transformation, driven by the powerful and interconnected impacts of climate change, demographic transitions and uneven economic growth around the world. For governments and the international community to navigate this period of upheaval to protect vulnerable populations and ensure positive societal change will require a similar degree of transformation within agricultural data systems. While technological innovation has resulted in substantive improvements in the availability, timeliness and overall quality of agricultural data, many technical and institutional challenges remain. This paper reviews recent developments in the agricultural data landscape, highlights existing constraints to further progress and argues for agricultural economists to take responsibility for building agricultural data systems equipped to respond to the diverse needs of a changing world.

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更好的数据，更大的影响：为社会变革改进农业数据系统

在全球气候变化、人口转变和不平衡经济增长的强大而相互关联的影响的推动下，农业部门正在经历快速转型时期。政府和国际社会要度过这一动荡时期以保护弱势群体并确保积极的社会变革，需要在农业数据系统中进行类似程度的转型。虽然技术创新已使农业数据的可用性、及时性和整体质量得到实质性改善，但仍然存在许多技术和制度挑战。本文回顾了农业数据领域的最新发展，