Resources

“Data Privacy is Not Enough”: Protecting African Farmers in a Digital Age
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VFYBlWoccY
Politics of Data: Understanding the Value of Data to Farmers and Farm Systems
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDkGYtAsV0M

Canfield, Matthew, Sabrina Masinjila, and Barbara Ntambirweki. 2025. “What Does Data Justice Mean for African Small-Holder Farmers? Towards Envisioning a Human Rights-Based Approach in Africa.” AgroecologyNow! November 13, 2024. https://agroecologynow.net/what-does-data-justice-mean-for-african-small-holder-farmers-towards-envisioning-a-human-rights-based-approach-in-africa/.
Canfield, Matthew. 2024. “Claiming Rights, Making Humans: Data Justice and Agrarian Worlds.” Tech Policy Press. June 26, 2024. https://www.techpolicy.press/claiming-rights-making-humans-data-justice-and-agrarian-worlds/.
Montenegro de Wit, Maywa, and Matthew Canfield. 2023. “Feeding the World with More Data.” Bot Populi. August 23, 2023. https://botpopuli.net/feeding-the-world-with-more-data/.
Canfield, Matthew, and Maywa Montenegro de Wit. 2023. “Governing Food System Data: Is the UN Committee on World Food Security Up to the Task?” Bot Populi. May 29, 2023. https://botpopuli.net/governing-food-system-data-is-the-un-committee-on-world-food-security-up-to-the-task/.

Canfield, Matthew, and Barbara Ntambirweki. 2024. “Datafying African Agriculture: From Data Governance to Farmers’ Rights.” Development 67 (1): 5–13. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41301-024-00405-7.
Montenegro de Wit, Maywa, and Matthew Canfield. 2024. “‘Feeding the World, Byte by Byte’: Emergent Imaginaries of Data Productivism.” The Journal of Peasant Studies 51 (2): 381–420. https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2023.2232997.

Canfield, Matthew, Juster, Kendi, Maina, Anne, Maingi, Daniel, Muya, Gideon, and Ntambirweki, Barbara. 2025. Connecting Communities or Corporations: Digital Agriculture, Data Harvests and Food Sovereignty in Kenya. Biba Kenya. https://bibakenya.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Connecting-Communities-or-Corporations-Digital-AgricultureData-Harvests-and-Food-sovereignty-in-Keny.pdf.