This study examines how market dynamics affect the production and consumption of healthy and equitable diets in North America. It argues that isolated social or commercial interventions are ineffective to achieve equitable access to nutritious foods. 

This analysis by Digital Food Labs identifies 28 FoodTech trends and grouped them into six megatrends shaping the future of food: the resilient farm, sustainable proteins, food as medicine, the smart supply chain, instant retail, and food automation. 

This paper criticises the narrative of technological solutionism. It argues that while technologies may have an important role in ensuring healthy and sustainable food systems, such efforts should be informed by a wider holistic vision and scrutinised carefully to ensure the social and cultural aspects of food are included and valued. 

This paper explores the power and market dynamics of digital platforms in the agricultural sector. It warns that the collaboration between agribusinesses and tech companies that provide digital infrastructure and AI software, has the potential to reinforce the market position of established companies and increase farmers’ dependency on agribusiness. 

Farm management platforms offer farmers surveillance over their operations, but this article argues farmers are in fact objects of ag-tech companies' surveillance when using said platforms. The author claims that companies' data policies create an ‘illusion of data ownership’ to protect valuable data. 

Julie Guthman digs into the solutions for food and agriculture currently emerging from Silicon Valley, arguing us to stop trying to fix our broken food system through finite capitalistic solutions and technological moonshots that do next to nothing to bring about a more just and sustainable system. 

This study explores an innovative research method called the serious game, as a way to assess systemic solutions in the food sector. They propose it as a way to represent food systems and test real-world solutions to pressing concerns.