Power Imbalances, Dispossession and Rising Inequality
How Digital Technologies Affect the Human Rights of Peasants and Small-scale Food Producers - A Glaring Omission: Economic, Social, Cultural and Environmental Rights in the Context of Digital Technologies
FIAN International releases its report Power Imbalances, Dispossession and Rising Inequality, How Digital Technologies Affect the Human Rights of Peasants and Small-scale Food Producers, on the politics of digitization of agriculture, at a seminar at the Palais des Nations at the UN in Geneva.
The way in which Human Rights institutions have looked at digital technologies has significant gaps, paving the way for violations. While attention has focused on issues such as privacy and freedom of expression, equally important economic, social, cultural and environmental rights have been neglected.
Transnational corporations capture peasant and native seeds by patenting genetic sequences. This undermines the knowledge and management practices that have nurtured humanity for millennia. Addressing structural inequalities is critical to shaping the development and use of digital technologies in ways that serve the most marginalized and oppressed peoples.
Read the report here.