The ethics of big data in big agriculture

Internet Policy Review

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Carbonell, Isabelle M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Big data; Data driven farming; Ethics

Indexed keywords

EID: 85014058557     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21976775     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14763/2016.1.405     Document Type: Article

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