ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
NASA Harvest, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.
Nat Food. 2024 Aug;5(8):656-660. doi: 10.1038/s43016-024-01018-6. Epub 2024 Aug 15.
Monitoring systems that incentivize, track and verify compliance with social and environmental standards are widespread in food systems. In particular, digital monitoring approaches using remote sensing, machine learning, big data, smartphones, platforms and blockchain are proliferating. The increasing use and availability of these technologies put us at a critical juncture to leverage these innovations for enhanced transparency, fairness and open access, rather than descending into a dystopian landscape of digital surveillance and division perpetuated by a powerful few. Here we discuss opportunities and risks, and highlight research gaps linked to the ongoing digitalization of monitoring approaches.
监测系统通过激励、跟踪和验证社会和环境标准的遵守情况在食品系统中得到了广泛应用。特别是，利用遥感、机器学习、大数据、智能手机、平台和区块链的数字监测方法正在迅速普及。这些技术的使用和可用性不断增加，使我们处于一个关键的转折点，我们可以利用这些创新来提高透明度、公平性和开放获取，而不是陷入由少数强权者所延续的数字监控和分裂的反乌托邦景象。在这里，我们讨论了机遇和风险，并强调了与监测方法数字化相关的研究空白。
