TY  - Type of reference 
TI  - [FORTHCOMING] Digitalisation in agriculture : towards an agroecological transformation ? 
AU  - Eléonore Schnebelin 
AB  - Both private and public actors promote digitalisation as a way of contributing to the agroecological transition of agriculture. However, the actual effects of digital technology on the agroecological transition is a matter of controversy. The objective of this article is to investigate how digitalisation affects and interacts with the diversity of agricultural models. To do so, it proposes an institutional economic and multi-level analysis of innovation system, implemented through a methodology that combines quantitative and qualitative analysis. At the level of the Agricultural Innovation System, it demonstrates that depending on their involvement in organic or conventional farming, actors do not perceive the same potential and risks and enact digitalisation differently. Organisations that promote digital in agriculture seem not to perceive this heterogeneity. At farm level, based on 98 interviews with field crop farmers in Occitanie, I construct digital technology use profiles. Current digital use mostly supports weak or symbolic ecologisation, tied with the industrialization of farms, which is characterised by expansion, specialization, the growing of outsourcing activities and salaried workforce as well as a deeper value-chain integration. This article highlights that, depending on the agricultural model to which the actors belong, they do not have the same perceptions and uses of digital technology. Digitalisation does not appear to be the result of so-called ’pioneering’ behaviour, but depends on the diversity of models and paradigms, in interaction with a socio-economic system that proposes, encourages or even imposes these technologies. Current digitalisation presents several forms of opposition to the agroecological transition of agriculture, whether in terms of techniques, objectives, reasoning, temporal dynamics or political and social issues. However, hybridisations of digitalization and ecologisation seem possible in the case of industrial forms of ecologisation. A deeper contribution of digitalisation to ecologisation would imply rethinking its technical, economic and political models. 
DO  - TBA 
JF  - Technology and Innovation 
KW  - Agriculture, Agroecological transition, Digital technology, Innovation system, Institutional Economics, Agriculture, Transition agroécologique, Numérique, Système d’innovation, Economie institutionnelle,  
L1  - https://www.openscience.fr/IMG/pdf/4_schnebelin_ok.pdf 
LA  - en 
PB  - ISTE OpenScience 
DA  - 2024/01/16 
SN  - 2399-8571 
TT  - [À PARAITRE] Le développement du numérique en agriculture : vers une transformation agroécologique ? 
UR  - https://www.openscience.fr/Digitalisation-in-agriculture-towards-an-agroecological-transformation 
IS  - Forthcoming papers 
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