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Industry 4.0 is changing the industrial environment. Particularly, the emerging Industry 4.0 technologies can improve the agri-food supply chain throughout all its stages. This study aims to highlight the benefits of implementing Industry 4.0 in[...]Article
F.M. Alkaabneh ; J. Lee ; M.I. Gómez ; H.O. Gao |Reducing carbon emissions of food supply chains has increasingly received attention from businesses and policymakers. In order to propose sound policies aimed at lowering such emissions, policy makers favor tools that are informative in the econ[...]Article
Accompanied by steps towards market liberalisation, dairy farmers in the European Union have been confronted with increased price risk in recent years, which might affect their innovation behaviour. We examine technological change and technical [...]Article
The digitization of the agri-food sector is a strategic priority in the political agenda of European institutions. The opportunity to improve the competitiveness and efficiency of the sector offered by new technologies comes together with its po[...]Article
Aim of study : To investigate the impact of adopting new feeding precision technology on pig production. Area of study : Four EU countries (Germany, France, Poland and Spain) during the period 20102015. Material and methods : The Färe-Primont i[...]Article
Campo de Dalías, located in southeastern Spain, is the greatest European exponent of greenhouse agriculture. The development of this type of agriculture has led to an exponential economic development of one of the poorest areas of Spain, in a sh[...]Article
J. Valls Bedeau ; M. Rezaei ; M. Pera ; J. Morrison |There is an abundance of actions that could positively change the way food systems operate in the Mediterranean region. However, the uptake of these actions at local level has proven to be slow and often limited in their scope and impact. Consid[...]Article
The number of tasks that nowadays are accomplished by using unmanned aerial vehicles is rising across many civil applications, including agriculture. Thus, this work aims at providing the reader with an overview of the agronomical use of unmanne[...]Article
As countries develop, agriculture's role as domestic employer declines. But the broader agri-food system also expands, and the scope for agriculture-related job creation shifts beyond the farm. Historically, technological revolutions have shaped[...]Article
S. Renner ; J. Sauer ; N. El Benni |A split-panel latent class stochastic frontier model is applied to account for technological heterogeneity among Swiss dairy farms and to assess the potential performance improvements through technology choice and change over 11 years. Three tec[...]Article
L. Stringer ; E.D.G. Fraser ; D. Harris ; C. Lyon ; L. Pereira ; C.F.M. Ward ; E. Simelton |One of the greatest challenges humanity faces is feeding the worlds human population in a sustainable, nutritious, equitable and ethical way under a changing climate. Urgent transformations are needed that allow farmers to adapt and develop whi[...]Article
J. Chazarra-Zapata ; J. Chazarra-Zapata ; D. Parras-Burgos ; C. Arteaga ; A. Ruiz-Canales ; J.M. Molina-Martínez |Currently, water users associations (WUAs) in semi-arid areas of southeastern Spain (Murcia region) send a multitude of data supplied by sensors in the field to the cloud. The constant technological revolution offers opportunities for small farm[...]Article
Y. Ampatzidis ; V. Partel ; L. Costa |Traditional sensing technologies in specialty crops production, for pest and disease detection and field phenotyping, rely on manual sampling and are time consuming and labor intensive. Since availability of personnel trained for field scouting [...]Article
Face aux scandales alimentaires qui se sont succédé depuis les années 1990, la méfiance des consommateurs envers leur alimentation sest accrue de façon importante. Pour les producteurs, les industriels et les marques, lenjeu nest plus seuleme[...]Article
C. González-Pavón ; J. Arviza-Valverde ; I. Balbastre-Peralta ; J.M. Carot Sierra ; G. Palau-Salvador |This work focuses on the situation of the technological transition to new technologies in drip irrigation in the Valencian Community (Spain). The study covers the last decade with data from interviews to managers of Irrigation Communities in 201[...]Article
Assessing the effectiveness of precision agriculture management systems in mediterranean small farms
L. Loures ; A. Chamizo ; P. Ferreira ; A. Loures ; R. Castanho ; T. Panagopoulos |While the world population continues to grow, increasing the need to produce more and better-quality food, climate change, urban growth and unsustainable agricultural practices accelerate the loss of available arable land, compromising the susta[...]Article
Big data represent a new productive factor (the new oil for advocates) that generates new realities in agriculture. By adding an extra cyber dimension to current farming systems, big data lead to the emergence of new, complex cyber-physical-[...]Article
Blockchain is today one of the most interesting and debated research topics. Blockchain technology was implemented for the first time in the financial sector a few years ago. However, it is currently used in many other areas, such as: healthcare[...]Article
During the past few decades many types of research have been studied Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) but the most of these researches were focused on CSR effect on enterprise performance, but less attention has been given to the public per[...]Article
Agriculture 4.0 is comprised of different already operational or developing technologies such as robotics, nanotechnology, synthetic protein, cellular agriculture, gene editing technology, artificial intelligence, blockchain, and machine learnin[...]Article
This study describes the evolution of the Spanish irrigated sector and focuses on water abstraction, water consumption, and energy use in the period 19502017. The analysis shows evidence of the basins reaching closure state and the impact on en[...]Article
M. Kernecker ; A. Knierim ; A. Wurbs ; T. Kraus ; F. Borges |Technological innovations are changing mechanisation in agriculture. The most recent wave of innovations referred to as smart farming technologies (SFT), promise to improve farming by responding to economic, ecological, and social challenges and[...]Article
Societies at large still grapple to categorize digital space as a phenomenon. At the same time, scientists and developers are searching for innovative methods to better understand how the fundamental shifts caused by digital change will affect t[...]Article
Farmers representations of the effects of precision livestock farming on human-animal relationships
F. Kling-Eveillard ; C. Allain ; X. Boivin ; V. Courboulay ; P. Créach ; A. Philibert ; Y. Ramonet ; N. Hostiou |Precision livestock farming affects the nature and frequency of farmers daily tasks, specifically in relation to animals. It consequently may modify how farmers consider their animals, the quality of the human-animal relationship and animal wel[...]Article
The information that crops offer is turned into profitable decisions only when efficiently managed. Current advances in data management are making Smart Farming grow exponentially as data have become the key element in modern agriculture to help[...]Article
J. Olah ; N. Aburumman ; J. Popp ; M.A. Khan ; H. Haddad ; N. Kitukutha |Industry 4.0 is a concept that originated from the German industry, and whose essence is the use of technology for efficient production. In business today, the emergence of Industry 4.0 for production, and its related technologies, such as the I[...]Article
L'adoption des nouvelles technologies dans le secteur agricole marocain est devenue aujourdhui une impérative nécessité. Dune part, pour suivre la tendance mondiale en matière dinnovation et rester compétitif, et dautre part pour répondre à [...]Article
Transitions literature regards technologies as critical components in shifting systems towards sustainability, which has informed the development of the technology-oriented Technological Innovation System (TIS) framework. The emerging discourse [...]Article
This is a brief review about irrigation scheduling tools and water management models for efficient on-farm watering of vegetable crops under open field conditions. This is the first step required for reducing water losses due to drainage and for[...]Article
Recent decades have witnessed unprecedented development in the field of biomedical and chemical science due to an economical, precise, and sensitive microelectromechanical system (MEMS) technology. Nevertheless, very few reports have highlighted[...]