Data-firms and e-commerce giants like Amazon are moving into food. Should we be worried? That depends on who is in the driving seat, says Pat Mooney. Interview by Nick Dowson.
How are new technologies – ‘big tech’ and ‘big data’ – changing the face of food-growing?
We are seeing platforms, such as Amazon or Ali Baba, moving into almost any marketplace because of their command of data. They can buy and sell from bricks-and-mortar stores, as Amazon’s doing now, while delivering groceries and, if they want to, speculating on commodities.
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