Smart farming and short food supply chains: Are they compatible?

Lioutas, Evagelos D.; Charatsari, Chrysanthi

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.104541

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“…The SASCs is based on the cooperation between the farmers and consumers of a local community wherein the farmers directly sell their produce to the consumers without an intermediary. They are useful in tackling supply-demand risks (Lioutas and Charatsari 2020). SASCs can play a critical role during the periods when the movement of inter-state transport is restricted.…”

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confidence: 99%

Agriculture supply chain risks and COVID-19: mitigation strategies and implications for the practitioners

Sharma

Shishodia

Kamble

et al. 2020

International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications

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The agricultural supply chains (ASCs) are exposed to unprecedented risks following COVID-19. It is necessary to investigate the impact of risks and to create resilient ASC organisations. In this study, we have identified and assessed the ASC risks caused by disruptions. These threats were assessed using Fuzzy Linguistic Quantifier Order Weighted Aggregation (FLQ-OWA). The findings reveal that supply risks, demand risks, financial risks, logistics and infrastructure risks, management and operational, policy and regulation, and biological and environmental risks have a significant impact in ASC depending upon the organisations scope and scale. Various strategies such as adoption of industry 4.0 technologies, supply chain collaboration and shared responsibility is identified for sustainable future. Theoretical and managerial implications are provided based on the outcomes of the study.

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Section: Managerial Implicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Agriculture supply chain risks and COVID-19: mitigation strategies and implications for the practitioners

Sharma

Shishodia

Kamble

et al. 2020

International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications

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“…The examination of each piece of material found through this methodology focused on the basic assumptions, choice of empirical studies, and overall conclusion on the distributional (political and economic) consequences of agrarian digitalisation through proprietary software platforms. Some of the empirical works the review articles referred to included Bogaardt et al (2016), Zhang (2016), Lindblom et al (2016), Eastwood et al (2017), , Janssen et al (2017), Lioutas and Charatsari (2020) and Salam (2020). Since this was an individual project, the author could not compare the results of this selection with a colleague.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In fact, this is a necessary step to promote sustainable practices which already exist. For example, a qualitative study of short food supply chain farming in Greece by Lioutas and Charatsari (2020) highlights the benefits of opening up digital agriculture solutions to alternative farming approaches. In this case, researchers observed the mistrust of family farming consumers have towards smart technologies.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Narratives matter, and both consumers and farmers felt excluded from the digital agriculture story. However, if public and private actors could direct their interest to tools servicing these and other constituencies, both authors argue they could provide a start for a sustainable transformation of agriculture (Lioutas and Charatsari, 2020).…”

Section: Continuity or Socio-technical Transition Through Digital Agmentioning

confidence: 99%

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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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“…However, as stated by Malak-Rawlikowska [24], because of the small quantities demanded in the different selling points, they can end up making a larger environmental impact, because their efficiency is lower than that of the massive conventional commercialization systems, or be less profitable. This forces producers to look for support on social and technological innovation for the deployment of SFSCs [26]. Scientific literature is looking at these issues in depth, providing innovative solutions to help small-scale farmers develop methods that are more successful and sustainable in environmental, economic, and social terms.…”

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Peri-Urban Organic Agriculture and Short Food Supply Chains as Drivers for Strengthening City/Region Food Systems—Two Case Studies in Andalucía, Spain

Ochoa

Ruiz

Olmo

et al. 2020

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Discussions on food security in the Global North have raised questions about the capacity of peri-urban organic agriculture to provide sufficient healthy food for the urban market. Dealing with food security requires more attention to how to protect peri-urban organic farming systems from urban pressures while strengthening the sustainability of local food systems. Given that short food supply chains (SFSCs) have been proven to be effective at reconnecting people with food production, this study focuses on identifying the barriers that hinder their development and the opportunities derived from the comparative advantage provided by their urban proximity. This study is based on documentary and empirical research addressing food supply chain characteristics in the organic sector. This study is focused on Mediterranean peri-urban agriculture, where, historically, there have been close relationships between the city and the countryside. These relationships are based on the fact that many cities are traditionally located next to areas of high agricultural activity, where a wide variety of vegetables is produced almost continuously due to the relatively mild winter climate. This study deals with two medium-sized metropolitan areas in Andalucía in the south of the Iberian Peninsula—the coastal city of Málaga, which is of a tourist-residential nature, and the inland urban agglomeration of Granada. Our research shows, when compared with other studies, that the local organic food sector seems to have great potential to find innovative solutions based on a collective approach, local embeddedness, and collective knowledge and by prioritizing horizontal and sustainable processes at the local/regional scale.

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Smart farming and short food supply chains: Are they compatible?

Cited by 78 publications

References 56 publications

Agriculture supply chain risks and COVID-19: mitigation strategies and implications for the practitioners

Agriculture supply chain risks and COVID-19: mitigation strategies and implications for the practitioners

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

Peri-Urban Organic Agriculture and Short Food Supply Chains as Drivers for Strengthening City/Region Food Systems—Two Case Studies in Andalucía, Spain

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