🖥️ In India, the digitalization of land registers has reinforced the exclusion of Indigenous peoples and marginalized farmers, and opened the door for corporate access to land tenure data. As a result of these so-called ‘modernization’ measures, in 2019, the inhabitants of a hamlet in the Indian state of Jharkhand became homeless overnight, as their legally purchased land was falsely registered under the name of the previous owner. The rapidly digitalized records have overridden many communities’ customary rights of land ownership, leaving them waging legal battles for recognition. Amidst this chaos, in 2021 the Indian government announced the launch of AgriStack, a data exchange platform under which the newly digitalized records are commodified.🏾 The Indian farmers movements have recently successfully mobilized to forestall the implementation of three laws that would open the Indian farming industry to corporations. Today, their fight continues on the digital front. In an age of digitalization, land and digital sovereignty must go hand in hand. Read the article via the link in our bio! With the support of @itforchange#WeBelongToTheLand #LandStruggleSeries #RightToLand #PowertothePeople