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friends,</p>
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from the desk of the <a
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the last private plane takes
off from the Glasgow airport
and the dust settles, the
detritus of the 26th United
Nations Climate Change
Conference, COP26, remains.
The final communiqués are
slowly being digested, their
limited scope inevitable.
António Guterres,
Secretary-General of the
United Nations, <a
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the proceedings by painting
two dire images: ‘Our
fragile planet is hanging by
a thread. We are still
knocking on the door of
climate catastrophe. It is
time to go into emergency
mode – or our chance of
reaching net zero will
itself be zero’. The loudest
cheer in the main hall did
not erupt when this final
verdict was announced, but
when it was proclaimed that
the next COP would be held
in Cairo, Egypt in 2022. It
seems enough to know that
another COP will take place.</p>
<p style="margin: 10px
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150%;text-align: left;">An
army of corporate executives
and lobbyists crowded the
official COP26 platforms; in
the evening, their cocktail
parties entertained
government officials. While
the cameras focused on
official speeches, the real
business was being done in
these evening parties and in
private rooms. The very
people who are most
responsible for the climate
catastrophe shaped many of
the proposals that were
brought to the table at
COP26. Meanwhile, climate
activists had to resort to
making as loud a noise as
possible far from the
Scottish Exchange Campus
(SEC Centre), where the
summit was hosted. It is
telling that the SEC Centre
was built on the same land
as the Queen’s Dock, once a
lucrative passageway for
goods extracted from the
colonies to flow into
Britain. Now, old colonial
habits revive themselves as
developed countries – in
cahoots with a few
developing states that are
captured by their corporate
overlords – refuse to accept
firm carbon limits and
contribute the billions of
dollars necessary for the
climate fund.</p>
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Computing, </i>2021.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 10px
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16px;line-height:
150%;text-align: left;">The
organisers of COP26
designated themes for many
of the days during the
conference, such as energy,
finance, and transport.
There was no day set aside
for a discussion of
agriculture; instead, it was
bundled into ‘<a
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agricultural processes and
the global food system,
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global food system <a
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between 21% and 37% of
annual greenhouse gas
emissions. Not long before
COP26, three United Nations
agencies released a key
report, which offered the
following <a
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‘At a time when many
countries’ public finances
are constrained,
particularly in the
developing world, global
agricultural support to
producers currently accounts
for almost USD 540 billion a
year. Over two-thirds of
this support is considered
price-distorting and largely
harmful to the environment’.
Yet at COP26, there was a
notable silence around the
distorted food system that
pollutes the Earth and our
bodies; there was no serious
conversation about any <a
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of the food system to
produce healthy food and
sustain life on the planet.</p>
<p style="margin: 10px
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Helvetica;font-size:
16px;line-height:
150%;text-align: left;">Instead,
the United States and the
United Arab Emirates, backed
by most of the developed
states, proposed an
Agriculture Innovation
Mission for Climate (<a
href="https://leftword.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6a79324d3b4acfde1e7e546c6&id=0097a04db4&e=d206d0a40d"
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programme to champion
agribusiness and the role of
big technology corporations
in agriculture. Big Tech
companies, such as Amazon
and Microsoft, and
agricultural technology (Ag
Tech) firms – such as Bayer,
Cargill, and John Deere –
are pushing a new digital
agricultural model through
which they seek to deepen
their control over global
food systems in the name of
mitigating the effects of
climate change. Stunningly,
this new, ‘game-changing’
solution for climate change
does not mention farmers
anywhere in its key
documents; after all, it
seems to envisage a future
that does not require them.
The entry of Ag Tech and Big
Tech into the agricultural
industry has meant a
takeover of the entire
process, from the management
of inputs to the marketing
of produce. This
consolidates power along the
food chain in the hands of
some of the world’s largest
food commodity trading
firms. These firms, often
called the ABCDs – Archer
Daniels Midland, Bunge,
Cargill, and Louis Dreyfus –
already <a
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more than 70% of the
agricultural market.</p>
<p style="margin: 10px
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16px;line-height:
150%;text-align: left;">Ag
Tech and Big Tech firms are
championing a kind of
uberisation of farmlands in
an effort to dominate all
aspects of food production.
This ensures that it is the
powerless smallholders and
agricultural workers who
take on all the risks. The
German pharmaceutical
company Bayer’s <a
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with the US non-profit
Precision Agriculture for
Development (PAD) intends to
use e-extension training to
control what and how farmers
grow their produce, as
agribusinesses reap the
benefits without taking on
risk. This is another
instance of neoliberalism at
work, displacing the risk
onto workers whose labour
produces vast profits for
the Ag Tech and Big Tech
firms. These big firms are
not interested in owning
land or other resources;
they merely want to control
the production process so
that they can continue to
make fabulous profits.</p>
<p style="margin: 10px
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class="wp-caption
aligncenter"><img
aria-describedby="caption-attachment-52544"
loading="lazy"
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size-full img-responsive
mcRssImage"
src="https://thetricontinental.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/27102021-5_DNA.jpg"
alt="Genetic Patent, 2021"
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style="color: #ba2025;"><i>Genetic
Patent, </i>2021.</span></p>
</div>
<p style="margin: 10px
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<p style="margin: 10px
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150%;text-align: left;">The
ongoing <a
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by Indian farmers, which
began just over a year ago
in October 2020, are rooted
in farmers’ justified fear
of the digitalisation of
agriculture by the large
global agribusinesses.
Farmers fear that removing
government regulation of the
marketplaces will instead
draw them into marketplaces
controlled by digital
platforms that are created
by companies like <a
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(Facebook), Google, and
Reliance. Not only will
these companies use their
control over the platforms
to define production and
distribution, but their
mastery over data will allow
them to dominate the entire
food cycle from production
forms to consumption habits.</p>
<p style="margin: 10px
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100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family:
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16px;line-height:
150%;text-align: left;">Earlier
this year, the <a
href="https://leftword.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6a79324d3b4acfde1e7e546c6&id=4e8dee522c&e=d206d0a40d"
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#007C89;font-weight:
normal;text-decoration:
underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">Landless
Workers Movement</a> (MST)
in Brazil held a seminar on
digital technology and class
struggle to better
understand the tentacles of
the Ag Tech and Big Tech
firms and how to overcome
their powerful presence in
the world of agriculture.
Out of this seminar emerged
our most recent <a
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no. 46, <i>Big Tech and the
Current Challenges Facing
the Class Struggle</i>,
which seeks to ‘understand
technological
transformations and their
social consequences with an
eye towards class struggle’
rather than to ‘provide an
exhaustive discussion or
conclusion on these themes’.
The dossier summarises a
rich discussion about
several topics, including
the relationship between
technology and capitalism,
the role of the state and
technology, the intimate
partnership between finance
and tech firms, and the role
of Ag Tech and Big Tech in
our fields and factories.</p>
<p style="margin: 10px
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<p style="margin: 10px
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loading="lazy"
class="aligncenter
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<p style="margin: 10px
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<p style="margin: 10px
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Helvetica;font-size:
16px;line-height:
150%;text-align: left;"><strong> </strong>The
section on agriculture (‘Big
Tech against Nature’)
introduces us to the world
of agribusiness and farming,
where the large Ag Tech and
Big Tech firms seek to
absorb and control the
knowledge of the
countryside, shape
agriculture to suit the
interests of the big firms’
profit margins, and reduce
agriculturalists to the
status of precarious gig
workers. The dossier closes
with a consideration of five
major conditions that are
behind the expansion of the
digital economy, each of
them suited to the growth of
Ag Tech in rural areas:</p>
<ul>
<li
style="mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><strong>A
free market (for data)</strong>.
User data is freely
siphoned off by these
firms, which then convert
it into proprietary
information to deepen
corporate control over
agricultural systems.</li>
<li
style="mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><strong>Economic
financialisation.</strong>
Data capitalist companies
depend on the flux of
speculative capital to
grow and consolidate.
These companies bear
witness to capital flight,
shifting capital away from
productive sectors and
towards those that are
merely speculative. This
puts increasing pressure
on productive sectors to
increase exploitation and
precarisation.</li>
<li
style="mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><strong>The
transformation of rights
into commodities.</strong>
The fact that public
intervention is being
superseded by private
companies’ meddling in
arenas of economic and
social life subordinates
our rights as citizens to
our potential as
commodities.</li>
<li
style="mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><strong>The
reduction of public
spaces.</strong> Society
begins to be seen less as
a collective whole and
more as the segmented
desires of individuals,
with gig work seen as
liberation rather than as
a form of subordination to
the power of large
corporations.</li>
<li
style="mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><strong>The
concentration of
resources, productive
chains, and
infrastructure</strong>.
Centralisation of
resources and power
amongst a handful of
corporations gives them
enormous leverage over the
state and society. The
great power concentrated
in these corporations
overrides any democratic
and popular debate on
political, economic,
environmental, and ethical
questions.</li>
</ul>
<p style="margin: 10px
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loading="lazy"
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src="https://thetricontinental.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/27102021-6_fragment.jpg"
alt="The Fragmentation of
Work
, 2021"
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<p
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style="color: #ba2025;"><i>The
Fragmentation of
Work, </i>2021.</span></p>
</div>
<p style="margin: 10px
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150%;text-align: left;"> </p>
<p style="margin: 10px
0;padding:
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100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family:
Helvetica;font-size:
16px;line-height:
150%;text-align: left;">In
2017, at COP23,
participating countries set
up the <a
href="https://leftword.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6a79324d3b4acfde1e7e546c6&id=4fc9683fd1&e=d206d0a40d"
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moz-do-not-send="true">Koronivia
Joint Work on Agriculture</a>
(KJWA), a process that
pledged to focus on
agriculture’s contribution
to climate change. KJWA held
a few events at COP26, but
these were not given much
attention. On Nature Day,
forty-five countries <a
href="https://leftword.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6a79324d3b4acfde1e7e546c6&id=263607e360&e=d206d0a40d"
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moz-do-not-send="true">endorsed</a>
the <i>Global Action Agenda
for Innovation in
Agriculture</i>, whose
main slogan, ‘innovation in
agriculture’, aligns with
the goals of the Ag Tech and
Big Tech sector. This
message is being channelled
through <a
href="https://leftword.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6a79324d3b4acfde1e7e546c6&id=ea1ec63a32&e=d206d0a40d"
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underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">CGIAR</a>,
an inter-governmental body
designed to promote ‘new
innovations’. Farmers are
being delivered into the
hands of Ag Tech and Big
Tech firms, who – rather
than committing to avert the
climate catastrophe –
prioritise accumulating the
greatest profit for
themselves while
greenwashing their
activities. This hunger for
profit is neither going to
end <a
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hunger</a>, nor will it
end the climate catastrophe.</p>
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alt="Connected Cables,
2021."
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<p
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style="color: #ba2025;"><i>Connected
Cables, </i>2021.</span></p>
</div>
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images in this newsletter
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#007C89;font-weight:
normal;text-decoration:
underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">dossier
no. 46</a>, <i>Big Tech
and the Current Challenges
Facing the Class Struggle</i>.
They build on a playful
understanding of the
concepts underpinning the
digital world: clouds,
mining, codes, and so on.
How to depict these
abstractions? ‘A data
cloud’, writes
Tricontinental: Institute
for Social Research’s art
department, ‘sounds like an
ethereal, magical place. It
is, in reality, anything but
that. The images in this
dossier aim to visualise the
materiality of the digital
world we live in. A cloud is
projected onto a chipboard’.
These images remind us that
technology is not neutral;
technology is a part of the
class struggle.</p>
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farmers in India would
agree.</p>
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