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Received: 13 March 2024

Accepted: 2 September 2024

First Online: 13 September 2024

Competing interests

: The authors declare no competing interests.

: This paper originates from the AgriDataSpace Project, funded by the European Commission, grant agreement number 101083401. The AgriDataSpace project developed an ethics framework at the beginning of the project in line with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration, which the research conducted for this paper followed. Additionally, the main ethical framework regarding non-medical research with human participants in the Netherlands: “Code of ethics for research in the social and behavioural sciences involving human participants” (the “Nethics Code”), outlined by the National Ethics Council for Social and Behavioural Sciences was also followed, as this research did not involve medical research on human participants. This code of ethics is a mandatory standard for employees at Wageningen University and Research, where four of the authors of this paper are based. The first author of this article (an ethicist) evaluated the research proposal alongside the Wageningen Research Ethics Committee (REC) documentation, and the proposed research was deemed to be low risk (participation was voluntary, and no vulnerable groups/individuals or children were involved in the research). Furthermore, all participant data was anonymised, and data collection followed the Data Management Plan outlined in the AgriDataSpace project. Ethics approval was therefore not deemed necessary, as all requirements from the REC, the Nenthics code and the 1964 Helsinki Declaration were factored into the informed consent sheets (available upon request) signed by the participants.

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