producers/donkers-djessie-joindata-vendor-fragmentation

Quote / Position

“It is incomprehensible for a farmer what he is sharing and collecting in terms of data. It’s good to have an independent party that monitors this. You don’t want data to just end up with another party undesired. They could have a different interest. I often see that an entrepreneur shares his fertilization or accounting data with, for example, the purchaser of milk or potatoes. But those parties only require that once. The lines don’t have to be open all the time.”

Context

Donkers frames the structural problem of data authorisations: farmers issue paper and digital authorisations to many parties (feed suppliers, processors, accountants), often forget to withdraw authorisations when relationships end, and have no consolidated view. ZLTO is one of the founding organisations behind JoinData, the Netherlands’ first agricultural data cooperative.

Source

Development Gateway / USAID. An Agricultural Data Cooperative for Farmers and Farmer Cooperatives — Case Study: JoinData. February 2023. https://developmentgateway.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Agricultural-Data_CaseStudy_Feb2023.pdf