producers/van-den-bosch-mathe-joindata-milk-data

Quote / Position

“It’s unbelievable how many agencies can request and view my milk production just like that. Good thing that with JoinData, us farmers can now decide for ourselves who is allowed to look.”

Context

The quote captures the producer-side benefit of JoinData’s cooperative platform: consolidated view of all data authorisations and farmer control over who can access production data. The contrast with the practitioner reality (Nelson quote) is real — JoinData is the operational answer to the proprietary-data-fragmentation problem.

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