Protecting the data of African agricultural producers: a review of national laws, compliance and perceptions

Q1 Social Sciences

Law, Innovation and Technology Pub Date : 2023-07-03 DOI:10.1080/17579961.2023.2245673

B. Chichaibelu, H. Baumüller, M.A. Matschuck

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ABSTRACT With the rapid spread of digital tools that collect large amounts of data from agricultural producers across Africa, there is a growing need to strike a balance between data protection and use. To inform this debate, this article examines the level of and demand for the protection of data collected from African producers. To this end, the article presents a review of national personal data protection laws in Africa and assesses compliance of digital agricultural service providers with these laws. It also offers a first insight into perceptions on personal data protection among African agricultural producers. The analysis shows that data privacy regulations in Africa have been evolving, but several countries have yet to adopt related legislation. Existing laws generally reflect the basic elements of the 2014 African Union Convention on personal data protection, but often fall short on provisions of particular importance to digital service provision. Compliance with national data privacy laws among digital agricultural service providers is limited, highlighting enforcement challenges. Awareness of data protection issues is low among agricultural producers, as is the ability to control access to their data.

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保护非洲农业生产者的数据：审查国家法律、遵守情况和看法

摘要随着从非洲各地农业生产者那里收集大量数据的数字工具的迅速普及，人们越来越需要在数据保护和使用之间取得平衡。为了为这场辩论提供信息，本文审查了保护从非洲生产者那里收集的数据的水平和需求。为此，本文对非洲国家个人数据保护法进行了审查，并评估了数字农业服务提供商对这些法律的遵守情况。它还首次深入了解了非洲农业生产者对个人数据保护的看法。分析显示，非洲的数据隐私法规一直在发展，但一些国家尚未通过相关立法。现有法律通常反映了2014年《非洲联盟个人数据保护公约》的基本内容，但往往没有达到对提供数字服务特别重要的规定。数字农业服务提供商遵守国家数据隐私法的情况有限，凸显了执法挑战。农业生产者对数据保护问题的认识很低，控制其数据访问的能力也很低。

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