Dealing with the game-changing technologies of Agriculture 4.0: How do we manage diversity and responsibility in food system transition pathways?

Klerkx, Laurens; Rose, David Christian

doi:10.1016/j.gfs.2019.100347

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“…The introduction of digital technologies in the field of animal farming is a fundamental change, but by no means the first abrupt shift noticed in the field of agriculture. Some scholars [61][62][63] note that digital farming represents the fourth agricultural revolution, which can introduce a new phase in agricultural history, after a relatively long period during which technology continued to develop incrementally. However, despite their potential positive effects, digital technologies have a disruptive and transformational nature, which may shake up the organizations involved in agrifood production and supply systems [61,[64][65][66].…”

Section: Agricultural Digitalization As a Punctuational Changementioning

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Extension and Advisory Organizations on the Road to the Digitalization of Animal Farming: An Organizational Learning Perspective

Charatsari

Lioutas

Rosa

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Animals

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Agricultural digitalization emerged as a radical innovation, punctuating the gradual evolution of the agrifood sector and having the potential to fundamentally restructure the context within which extension and advisory organizations operate. Digital technologies are expected to alter the practice and culture of animal farming in the future. To suit the changing environmental conditions, organizations can make minor adjustments or can call into question their purposes, belief systems, and operating paradigms. Each pattern of change is associated with different types of organizational learning. In this conceptual article, adopting an organizational learning perspective and building upon organizational change models, we present two potential change and learning pathways that extension and advisory organizations can follow to cope with digitalization: morphostasis and morphogenesis. Morphostatic change has a transitional nature and helps organizations survive by adapting to the new environmental conditions. Organizations that follow this pathway learn by recognizing and correcting errors. This way, they increase their competence in specific services and activities. Morphogenetic change, on the other hand, occurs when organizations acknowledge the need to move beyond existing operating paradigms, redefine their purposes, and explore new possibilities. By transforming themselves, organizations learn new ways to understand and interpret contextual cues. We conclude by presenting some factors that explain extension and advisory organizations’ tendency to morphostasis.

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Section: Agricultural Digitalization As a Punctuational Changementioning

confidence: 99%

Extension and Advisory Organizations on the Road to the Digitalization of Animal Farming: An Organizational Learning Perspective

Charatsari

Lioutas

Rosa

et al. 2020

Animals

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“…Finally, Klerkx and Rose (2020) describe Agriculture 4.0, which includes on-farm digital innovations, as the upcoming transition in the food system. However, they also advise against the risks of failing to consider issues of exclusion and inclusion in innovation systems; which are not neutral (something shared by this paper's theoretical framework).…”

Section: Review Of Key Papers In Digital Agriculture and The Presencementioning

confidence: 99%

“…2-4). While this would have an impact on sustainability, the concept itself is not addressed by Klerkx and Rose (2020). As a solution to exclusion challenges, both authors propose the creation of innovation systems and processes which allow all stakeholders to participate in the development of digital agriculture.…”

Section: Review Of Key Papers In Digital Agriculture and The Presencementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Thus, while climate change and agricultural emissions are evoked as key issues for agriculture, they are not directly discussed in relation with what is purportedly the next great systemic transition in the sector. Echoing Klerkx and Rose's (2020) call, an important step in predicting how Agriculture 4.0 at scale could look like should involve considering its potential effects on the environment. However, most cu-rrent reviews ignore the latter.…”

Section: Review Of Key Papers In Digital Agriculture and The Presencementioning

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Searching for sustainability in the digital agriculture debate: an alternative approach for a systemic transition

Cobby

2020

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One of the key challenges for agriculture today is feeding an increasing population without contributing to climate change. Increasingly, digital agriculture is discussed as a new sociotechnical regime that could help limit emissions for farmers worldwide. While sustainability is an important issue, recent papers in the field of digital agriculture do not address the problem directly. After a literature review, this paper will focus on the importance of shared perspectives as enablers in socio-technical transitions. This paper argues that the myth of the digital sublime could act in favour of the existing and unsustainable model of agriculture. This is partly a result of hardware production and connectivity already being resource-intensive. Precisely because of this high environmental impact, the following discussion will employ the legacy of the Green Revolution to highlight the importance of precaution in deploying digital agriculture. In theory, in order to address the shortcomings of the current system, private sector companies are developing proprietary software solutions that could in practice entrench unsustainable business models. As an alternative, this paper suggests, existing open-source platforms that encourage not-for-profit collaborations between farmers should be scaled up. Through bottom-up processes, future researchers and developers should seek ways to place sustainability at the centre of their analyses, and encourage the adoption of practices that can be tailored to the diverse needs of farmers. Ultimately, stakeholders in digital agriculture should understand that sustainability principles must be encoded at all stages in the deployment of digital agriculture technologies.

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“…Within this context, precision agriculture is a fundamental part of sustainable agriculture and it is included in the called "Agriculture 4.0" [4,5]. It employs techniques for agri-food production that allow advantages of the available resources utilization, and avoid, or minimize, the production of toxic waste [6].…”

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Smart Farming: Intelligent Management Approach for Crop Inspection and Evaluation Employing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Muñoz

Alvarez

Márquez

2020

Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Management Science and Engineering Management

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This work presents an unmanned aerial vehicle management platform encompassed in the concept of smart farming. Automates inspections of different crops and monitors the status of the plantation is done by IoT, analyzing an area on an online map that provides air and weather restrictions. Intelligent route management algorithms are employed to generate the optimal inspection route and waypoints, maximizing the multispectral images capture. These multispectral images can be subsequently processed according to algorithms based on phytosanitary index formulas and regressions obtained with artificial neural networks. Reports are generated with analysis of the results by this approach, for example: optimal collection time, water stress, maturity index, etc.

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Dealing with the game-changing technologies of Agriculture 4.0: How do we manage diversity and responsibility in food system transition pathways?

Cited by 302 publications

References 88 publications

Extension and Advisory Organizations on the Road to the Digitalization of Animal Farming: An Organizational Learning Perspective

Extension and Advisory Organizations on the Road to the Digitalization of Animal Farming: An Organizational Learning Perspective

Searching for sustainability in the digital agriculture debate: an alternative approach for a systemic transition

Smart Farming: Intelligent Management Approach for Crop Inspection and Evaluation Employing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

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