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cord-253175-77wlciz3	Fairbairn, Madeleine	Agri-food tech discovers silver linings in the pandemic	2020-05-13		.txt	text/plain	992	66	54	Our curiosity on this point stems from our participation in a collaborative study with agri-food researchers across three University of California campuses (https ://after proje ct.sites .ucsc.edu/) that is investigating Silicon Valley's recent foray into food and agriculture as sites of innovation and investment. As the virus has carved its exponential path through our economic and social lives, the agri-food tech sector has undertaken an almost instantaneous repositioning. Neo-Malthusian productivism was always a dubious underpinning given the prevalence of over-production in agriculture (a vast problem about which the tech industry seems curiously unaware), and food safety could actually prove to be a more apposite frame for agri-food tech solutionism. She studies the political economy of agriculture, including the financial sector's growing interest in acquiring farmland and, more recently, the Silicon Valley agri-food tech sector. She is also the recipient of the 2015 Excellence in Research Award from the Agriculture, Food and Human Values Society.	./cache/cord-253175-77wlciz3.txt	./txt/cord-253175-77wlciz3.txt