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Photo: PRASANNAPIX/Shutterstock.com Some call it precision agriculture, others digital agriculture or Agriculture 4.0. In the end, it’s about new digital technologies that make it possible to produce an ever-greater amount of data about farms and use those data to improve food production, delivery, and sales to consumers. Those same datasets can be used by input (seeds, fertilizers, etc.) and service providers to develop new products and services for agro-food systems. Governments are also interested in designing and implementing data-driven policies for the sector. Realizing these benefits requires and enabling data governance for the sector. Yet, some farmers are increasingly concerned they can’t control how data about their farm, which they consider personal or commercially sensitive, is shared, used, and reused by others. ....