CONTEXT

Narratives dominate the agricultural discourse that digitalisation is the ‘silver bullet’ to agricultural, environmental, and global issues, resulting in an external push towards automation and a rapid increase in digital technologies in the sector. Concentrated productivist views and techno-optimist hype and momentum is carrying us briskly towards a digital farming revolution, with little conversation or consideration of the social impacts of digitalisation. The application of social science research to digital agriculture is relatively new and the pace at which it has been developing to keep up with digital advances in the sector has left this body of literature scattered and lacking sufficient overview.

OBJECTIVE

To address this, a scoping study was conducted on social and behavioural science literature related to digital agriculture.

METHODS

This scoping study, which incorporates 200 references, pays particular attention to stakeholder engagement and how agricultural digitalisation has been developing. This methodology enables us to provide an extensive overview of this field of research, presenting key themes pertaining to the literature including barriers and facilitators of, as well as anticipated positive and negative impacts of digital technology adoption.

RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS

We find that whilst there has been a general win-win, techno-positive narrative in the agricultural sector, proof of these benefits is limited and some technologies are eliciting negative effects to its users, transforming the landscape of agriculture.

SIGNIFICANCE

In order to be responsive to these negative consequences, it is important that we turn our attention upstream to examine how technologies are designed and developed for use in an agricultural context. This can be achieved by integrating more inclusive approaches to technology design. These approaches will help to mitigate negative effects of technologies, help to create successful and responsible innovations, tackle low adoption issues, and help to create more responsible digital futures.

中文翻译：

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调查数字农业的叙述和趋势：社会和行为科学研究的范围界定研究

语境

主导农业话语的说法是数字化是解决农业、环境和全球问题的“灵丹妙药”，导致外部推动自动化和该行业数字技术的快速增长。集中的生产主义观点和技术乐观主义的炒作和势头正在使我们轻快地走向数字农业革命，很少讨论或考虑数字化的社会影响。社会科学研究在数字农业中的应用相对较新，它为跟上该领域的数字进步而一直在发展的步伐使这一文献体系分散且缺乏足够的概述。

客观的

为了解决这个问题，对与数字农业相关的社会和行为科学文献进行了范围界定研究。

方法

这项范围界定研究纳入了 200 个参考文献，特别关注利益相关者的参与以及农业数字化的发展方式。这种方法使我们能够对该研究领域进行广泛的概述，提出与文献相关的关键主题，包括数字技术采用的障碍和促进因素，以及预期的积极和消极影响。

结果和结论

我们发现，虽然农业部门普遍存在双赢、技术积极的说法，但这些好处的证据有限，而且一些技术正在对其用户产生负面影响，从而改变农业面貌。

意义

为了应对这些负面后果，重要的是我们将注意力转向上游，研究如何设计和开发技术以用于农业环境。这可以通过将更具包容性的方法整合到技术设计中来实现。这些方法将有助于减轻技术的负面影响，有助于创造成功和负责任的创新，解决采用率低的问题，并有助于创造更负责任的数字未来。