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The digital agriculture revolution holds a promise to build an agriculture and food system that is efficient, environmentally sustainable, and equitable, one that can help deliver the Sustainable Development Goals. Unlike past technological revolutions in agriculture, which began on farms, the current revolution is being sparked at multiple points along the agrifood value chain. The change is driven by the ability to collect, use, and analyze massive amounts of machine-readable data about practically every aspect of the value chain, and by the emergence of digital platforms disrupting existing business models. All this allows for drastically reduced transaction costs and pervasive information asymmetries that plague the agrifood system. The success of the digital transformation, however, is not guaranteed as the risks it brings are numerous, including those related to data governance and inadequate competition within and between digital platforms. What's Cooking: Digital Transformation of the Agrifood System investigates how digital technologies can accelerate the transformation of the agrifood system by increasing efficiency on the farm; improving farmers' access to output, input, and financial markets; strengthening quality control and traceability; and improving the design and delivery of agriculture policies. It also identifies a key role for the public sector in maximizing the benefits of this process while minimizing its risks, through enabling an innovation ecosystem featuring open datasets, digital platforms, digital entrepreneurship, digital payment systems, and digital skills and encouraging equitable technology adoption.

Digital Divide --- Digital Platforms --- Digital Technologies --- Efficiency --- Environmental Sustainability --- Equity --- Food System --- Information Asymmetries --- Innovation Ecosystem --- Transaction Costs --- Agricultural industries. --- Sustainable agriculture. --- Technology transfer.

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Beginning with an original historical vision of financialization in human history, this volume then continues with a rich set of contemporary ethnographic case studies from Europe, Asia and Africa. Authors explore the ways in which finance inserts itself into relationships of class and kinship, how it adapts to non-Western religious traditions, and how it reconfigures legal and ecological dimensions of social organization, and urban social relations in general. Central themes include the indebtedness of individuals and households, the impact of digital technologies, the struggle for housing, financial education, and political contestation.

Financialization. --- africa. --- anthropology. --- asia. --- bankers. --- banking systems. --- banks. --- business. --- capital. --- class. --- debt. --- digital technologies. --- ecological dimensions. --- economics. --- education. --- engaging. --- ethnographic case studies. --- europe. --- finance. --- finances. --- financial education. --- financialization. --- fortune. --- government and governing. --- history. --- housing. --- human condition. --- human history. --- kinship. --- money and banking. --- money. --- politics. --- power and wealth. --- religion. --- religious traditions. --- social history. --- social organization. --- social relations. --- technology. --- urban social relations.