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W. Liu ; W. Liu ; X.-F. Shao ; C.-H. Wu ; P. Qiao |This review examines literature from 2011 to 2020 on information and communications technologies (ICTs) and blockchain technologies (BTs) in agriculture. To describe the status of the subjects and identify issues for future research, we utilized[...]Article
M. Vlachopoulou ; C. Ziakis ; K. Vergidis ; M. Madas |The agribusiness sector shows tremendous growth and sustainability prospects by exploiting the challenges of AgriFood-Tech business models in the digital environment, by encouraging innovation, accelerating institutional and structural change,[...]Article
Agriculture terraces constitute a significant element of the Mediterranean landscape, enabling crop production on steep slopes while protecting land from desertification. Despite their ecological and historical value, terrace cultivation is thre[...]Article
Digital twins are being adopted by increasingly more industries, transforming them and bringing new opportunities. Digital twins provide previously unheard levels of control over physical entities and help to manage complex systems by integratin[...]Article
Digitalisation in the agricultural sector continues to expand. At the same time demands for an agricultural policy offering better support for sustainability become increasingly fervent. However, it is far from clear how digitalisation could mak[...]Article
S.O. Araújo ; R.S. Peres ; J. Barata ; F. Lidon ; J.C. Ramalho |Investment in technological research is imperative to stimulate the development of sustainable solutions for the agricultural sector. Advances in Internet of Things, sensors and sensor networks, robotics, artificial intelligence, big data, cloud[...]Article
Digital Twins are very promising to bring smart farming to new levels of farming productivity and sustainability. A Digital Twin is a digital equivalent of a real-life object of which it mirrors its behaviour and states over its lifetime in a vi[...]Article
Smart irrigation techniques have the potential for improving water application efficiencies at the farm level, thereby helping to reduce the environmental impact of agriculture and providing an economic advantage to farmers. Here we gauge the wi[...]Article
Digital technologies offer a potential solution to improve sustainabilityeconomic, social, and environmentalof agri-food systems around the globe. While developed countries have led the innovation and adoption of digital agriculture, the poten[...]Article
J.M. Séronie, animateur ; G. Waksman, animateur ; M. Varchavsky ; J.-B. Vervy ; P. Méheut ; L. Vermeulen ; A. Bibard |Au cours de cette séance, nous souhaitons voir comment lagriculture collaborative basée sur le numérique peut aider à relever les défis techniques, économiques, environnementaux, sociétaux que rencontre le monde agricole et envisager comment le[...]Article
The emerging Information and Communication Technology play a vital role in electronic agriculture. The application of such technologies as blockchain, Internet-of-Things, wireless sensor networks, cloud computing, and machine learning can improv[...]Article
The COVID-19 outbreak was an unprecedented situation that uncovered forgotten interconnections and interdependencies between agriculture, society, and economy, whereas it also brought to the fore the vulnerability of agrifood production to exter[...]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
M. Medici ; S.M. Pedersen ; M. Canavari ; T. Anken ; P. Stamatelopoulos ; Z. Tsiropoulos ; A. Zotos ; G. Tohidloo |To develop precision agriculture (PA) to its full potential and make agriculture progress toward sustainability and resilience, appropriate criteria for the economic assessment are recognised as being one of the most significant issues requiring[...]Article
In this study, we analyze how crop management will benefit from the Internet of Things (IoT) by providing an overview of its architecture and components from agronomic and technological perspectives. The present analysis highlights that IoT is a[...]Article
M. Kernecker ; M. Kernecker ; M. Busse ; A. Knierim |Agricultural innovations can emerge from multi-actor cooperation and so actors, their roles, and their activities will likely influence the character of novel farming practices. Recent studies suggest that such cooperation might be particularly [...]Article
Globalization has led to a new paradigm where the traditional industries, such as agriculture, employ vanguard technologies to broaden its possibilities into what is known as smart farming and the agri-food industry 4.0. This industry needs to a[...]Article
Deuxième continent le plus peuplé du monde derrière lAsie, mais premier par son taux de croissance démographique, lAfrique est confrontée, de longue date, à dimportantes difficultés pour subvenir aux besoins alimentaires de sa population. Les[...]Article
The current COVID-19 global pandemic has amplified the pressure on the agriculture sector, inciting the need for sustainable agriculture more than ever. Thus, in this review, a sustainable perspective of the use of remotely piloted aircraft (RPA[...]E-Book
K. Schroeder ; J. Lampietti ; G. Elabed | Washington [États-Unis] : Banque Mondiale | Agriculture and Food Series | 2021The digital agriculture revolution holds a promise to build an agriculture and food system that is efficient, environmentally sustainable, and equitable, one that can help deliver the Sustainable Development Goals. Unlike past technological revo[...]Article
S. Vouraki ; I. Skourtis ; K. Psichos ; W. Jones ; C. Davis ; M. Johnson ; L.R. Rupérez ; A. Theodoridis ; G. Arsenos |The viability of the European sheep and goat sector is threatened by market, policy, social and technical challenges. To address such challenges, innovations for efficient farm management, especially with decision support capabilities, are consi[...]Article
M. Torky ; M. Torky ; A.E. Hassanein |Blockchain quickly became an important technology in many applications of precision agriculture discipline. The need to develop smart P2P systems capable of verifying, securing, monitoring, and analyzing agricultural data is leading to thinking [...]Article
Technification in agriculture has resulted in the inclusion of more efficient companies that have evolved into a more complex sector focused on production and quality. Artificial intelligence, one of the relevant areas of technology, is transfor[...]Article
Computer vision technologies have attracted significant interest in precision agriculture in recent years. At the core of robotics and artificial intelligence, computer vision enables various tasks from planting to harvesting in the crop product[...]Article
Ecosystem services delivery is influenced by food systems and vice versa. As the application of digital technologies in agriculture continues to expand, digital technologies might affect the delivery of ecosystem services in view of the sorts of[...]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
D. Sarri ; S. Lombardo ; A. Pagliai ; C. Perna ; R. Lisci ; V. De Pascale ; M. Rimediotti ; G. Cencini ; M. Vieri |This study shows a new methodological proposal for wine farm management, as a result of the progressive development of the technological innovations and their adoption. The study was carried out in Italy involving farmers, workers, or owners of [...]Article
I. Cisternas ; I. Velásquez ; A. Caro ; A. Rodriguez |Agriculture production highly depends on water and soil factors which increasingly need to be utilized efficiently. Precision agriculture, through the set of information technologies that it uses, allows to effectively manage these resources. Th[...]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
J. Mendes ; T.M. Pinho ; F. Neves dos Santos ; J.J. Sousa ; E. Peres ; J. Boaventura-Cunha ; M. Cunha ; R. Morais |Traditionally farmers have used their perceptual sensorial systems to diagnose and monitor their crops health and needs. However, humans possess five basic perceptual systems with accuracy levels that can change from human to human which are lar[...]