ISTOCK/CLARA BASTIAN Cybersecurity for Smart Farming Socio-Cultural Context Matters Dirk van der Linden, Ola Aleksandra Michalec, and Anna Zamansky Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MTS.2020.3031844 Date of current version: 2 December 2020 28 0278-0097/20©2020IEEE F ood security is a societal issue of increasing importance requiring careful consideration of the way we produce, process, and distribute food [2], [6]. Digital technologies are increasingly used to optimize processes to support these activities, and therefore, bear important implications for food security. In this article, we focus in particular on technologies used for an important aspect IEEE TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY MAGAZINE ∕ DECEMBER 2020