The crisis faced, due to the impacts of climate change, the collapse of biodiversity and ecosystems, pandemics, or wars, renders even more urgent a transition to agroecological food systems which are more resilient and less dependent on external inputs. 

Agroecology is a way to express the four principles of organic farming (health, fairness, ecology, and care). Organic agriculture and agroecology have common principles and drivers, and the organic movement sees itself as an integral part of the movement and science for agroecology. 

This report explains why digitalization should not be conceived only as a technological fix to the current input-intensive agriculture model, aimed at alleviating marginally some of its destructive impacts while increasing corporate control and further disempowering farmers. Issues of control and ownership of data are by now well-identified in the public discussion, and digitalization and agroecology sometimes appear in the debate as two dominating and conflicting narratives on what the future of agriculture should be.