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The digitalization of agriculture is already a fact: Big Tech companies are working alongside monopolistic agribusiness corporations, driving an unprecedented datification in the rural sector. Peasant and indigenous communities are demanding protection and security over their knowledge, data, and modes of production. Is it possible to introduce digital technologies in rural areas in ways that respect peasant rights and promote food sovereignty?

Thinking about the future of work, and especially of work mediated by digital platforms, has never been as hopeless as it is today. The promise and threats of automation, the precarization of old forms of work – creative and cultural, for example – and the creation of new forms of digital work in slave-like conditions – all contribute to this scenario.