E-agriculture, data and law: legal topography of the "green information ecosystem"

Abstract

The digital environment increases the capacities to collect, process, analyse, store and disseminate data. New business methods are being introduced in the agriculture area. This new value chain is calling into question the distribution of value between the different actors of this new « green information ecosystem ». Innovative legal solutions can be found, but in an innovative way which consists, in the first instance, not to echo the spell of the reductive idea of data property. Then it consists, at a legal but also contractual level, to draw up a maximised and reasoned policy for the data management.