Transition towards sustainability in agriculture and food systems:Role of information and communication technologies

作     者：Hamid El Bilali Mohammad Sadegh Allahyari 

作者机构：Centre for Development ResearchUniversity of Natural Resources and Life Sciences(BOKU)ViennaAustria Department of Agricultural ManagementRasht BranchIslamic Azad UniversityRashtIran University of Gastronomic SciencesPiazza Vittorio Emanuele 9I-12042 Pollenzo(Cuneo)Italy 

出 版 物：《Information Processing in Agriculture》 (农业信息处理（英文）)

年 卷 期：2018年第5卷第4期

页      面：456-464页

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学科分类：0202[经济学-应用经济学] 02[经济学] 020205[经济学-产业经济学] 

主　　题：Sustainability transitions ICT Agriculture digitization Food supply chain Food processing Distribution Consumption 

摘      要：Food sustainability transitions refer to transformation processes necessary to move towards sustainable food *** is one of the most important ongoing transformation processes in global agriculture and food *** review paper explores the contribution of information and communication technologies(ICTs)to transition towards sustainability along the food chain(production,processing,distribution,consumption).A particular attention is devoted to precision agriculture as a food production model that integrates many *** can contribute to agro-food sustainability transition by increasing resource productivity,reducing inefficiencies,decreasing management costs,and improving food chain *** paper also explores some drawbacks of ICTs as well as the factors limiting their uptake in agriculture.