By leveraging a wide range of novel, data-driven technologies for agricultural production and agri-food value chains, digital agriculture presents potential enhancements to sustainability across food systems. Accordingly, digital agriculture has received considerable attention in policy in recent years, with emphasis mostly placed on the potential of digital agriculture to improve efficiency, productivity and food security, and less attention given to how digitalization may impact other principles of sustainable development, such as biodiversity conservation, soil protection, and human health, for example. Here, we review high-level policy and law in the German and European context to highlight a number of important institutional, societal, and legal preconditions for leveraging digital agriculture to achieve diverse sustainability targets. Additionally, we combine foresight analysis with our review to reflect on how future frame conditions influencing agricultural digitalization and sustainability could conceivably arise. The major points are the following: (1) some polices consider the benefits of digital agriculture, although only to a limited extent and mostly in terms of resource use efficiency; (2) law as it applies to digital agriculture is emerging but is highly fragmented; and (3) the adoption of digital agriculture and if it is used to enhance sustainability will be dependent on future data ownership regimes.

通过利用各种新颖的、数据驱动的农业生产和农业食品价值链技术，数字农业有望增强整个粮食系统的可持续性。因此，近年来，数字农业在政策上受到了相当多的关注，重点主要放在数字农业提高效率、生产力和粮食安全的潜力，而较少关注数字化如何影响可持续发展的其他原则，例如例如，生物多样性保护、土壤保护和人类健康。在这里，我们回顾了德国和欧洲背景下的高层政策和法律，以强调利用数字农业实现多样化可持续发展目标的一些重要的制度、社会和法律先决条件。此外，我们将前瞻分析与回顾相结合，以反思影响农业数字化和可持续性的未来框架条件可能如何出现。主要有以下几点：（1）一些政策考虑了数字农业的好处，但程度有限，而且主要是在资源利用效率方面； (2) 适用于数字农业的法律正在兴起，但高度分散； (3)数字农业的采用以及是否用于增强可持续性将取决于未来的数据所有权制度。