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Emily Duncan

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Pronouns: She/Her
Postdoctoral Fellow
PhD (University of Guelph); MA (University of Guelph); BA&Sc Honours (McGill University)

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Research Interests

  • Food security
  • Agriculture
  • Technology
  • Environment
  • Development
  • Sustainability
  • Rural communities
  • Climate change
  • Community engagement

Emily Duncan’s SSHRC-funded Postdoctoral Fellowship investigates the social consequences of digital agricultural technologies. Drawing on science and technology studies and agrarian political economy, she explores how algorithmic decision-support tools in agriculture lead to specific environmental management outcomes and analyzes their impact on the Canadian agri-food sector. Her research connects the trends of digitalization in agriculture to on-going issues related to consolidation, financialization, and climate change. Ultimately, Dr. Duncan’s research aims to produce knowledge that will advance the resiliency and sustainability of agri-food systems. She is the recipient of the D.F. Forster Doctoral Medal and was awarded the Vanier Graduate Scholarship.

 

Selected publications

    • Duncan, E., & Magnan, A. (2023). Exploring the growing links between digital agriculture, finance capital, and farmland investors and managers in North America. International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food, 29(2), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.48416/ijsaf.v29i2.557
    • Duncan, E., Rotz, S., Magnan, A., & Bronson, K. (2022). Disciplining land through data: The role of agricultural technologies in farmland assetisation. Sociologia Ruralis, 62(2), 231-249. https://doi.org/10.1111/soru.12369
    • Duncan, E., Ashton, L., Abdulai, A. R., Sawadogo-Lewis, T., King, S. E., Fraser, E. D. G., ... & Roberton, T. (2022). Connecting the food and agriculture sector to nutrition interventions for improved health outcomes. Food security, 14(3), 657-675. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12571-022-01262-3
    • Duncan, E., Glaros, A., Ross, D. Z., & Nost, E. (2021). New but for whom? Discourses of innovation in precision agriculture. Agriculture and Human Values, 38, 1181-1199. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-021-10244-8
    • Rotz, S., Duncan, E., Small, M., Botschner, J., Dara, R., Mosby, I., ... & Fraser, E.D.G. (2019). The politics of digital agricultural technologies: a preliminary review. Sociologia ruralis, 59(2), 203-229. https://doi.org/10.1111/soru.12233