Digital Transformation of the Agri-Food Industry and Supply Chains to Take On the Challenges of Sustainability
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Food".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2023) | Viewed by 2580
Special Issue Editors
Interests: agri-food digitalization; sustainable supply chain management; business model; consumer behavior
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Interests: sustainable business process management; social and open innovation; circular economy
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Interests: optimization techniques; supply chain management; digital trasformation; machine learning
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In the path to Industry 5.0, governments from all over the world are building strategic frameworks to sensitize, support and guide agri-food industry and supply chains (AFSC) toward the accomplishment of sustainable innovation processes.
The agri-food industry does indeed not only address a primary need of people and have a relevant impact on planet but is also considered strategic in the transformation process and should be promoted in view of the creation of a sustainable, inclusive and resilient society. However, the transition is not simple and immediate. Reducing the environmental impact, managing social issues, solving supply chain network design problems, tackling the economic pressure, fulfilling the needs expressed by conscious and more demanding consumers and complying with regulations represent the main challenges that agri-food companies are called upon to resolve.
In this scenario, Agriculture 4.0, which involves a set of methodologies and technologies capable of transferring data and information and managing knowledge along the entire AFSC, could play a strategic role. It may indeed allow bridging the gap between digitalization and sustainability and have a synergistic effect on performance as witnessed for other industries.
This Special Issue aims at exploring the use of digital transformation to address the current challenges facing the agri-food industry and supply chains.
Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:
- Agriculture 4.0 as drivers for a sustainable AFSC;
- Big data, analytics and data-driven models to improve decision making along the sustainable AFSC;
- Product and process information sharing strategies based on technologies to communicate food sustainability;
- Implementation of sustainable value proposition leveraging on technology-based business models;
- The application of AI tools to improve decision-making in the AFSC;
- Digital twin and metaverse in the AFSC;
- Best practice collection and successful use cases about digitalization for sustainable perspective in agribusinesses;
- Social and environmental technology-based patterns adopted to innovate the processes carried out within the agri-food-industry;
- Approaches and technologies to facilitate stakeholder engagement for materiality analysis and sustainability reporting;
- Digital transformation models for the I5. 0 transition in the agri-food industry.
Dr. Maria Elena Latino
Dr. Barbara Scozzi
Dr. Zeynel Abdin Cil
Dr. Marta Menegoli
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- agriculture 4.0
- digitalization
- sustainable agri-food supply chain
- digital Transformation
