Data sovereignty needs in agricultural use cases

Abstract

With today's shift towards digital farming, data transfer and processing are becoming increasingly essential for optimizing farm operations. In the complex arable farming sector, there exist numerous use cases involving a variety of actors and processes. Designing new digital ecosystems, such as agricultural data spaces that support existing workflows while enabling new opportunities for data-driven services, requires a good understanding of existing processes and data sovereignty needs. In this paper, we categorize data exchange use cases in arable farming and analyze the respective data sovereignty needs for each category. The results of our contribution can be used as a basis for further analysis and evaluation of data-sharing approaches in terms of their suitability for meeting different data sovereignty needs in agriculture, as well as in the process of requirements analysis when designing such systems.