Future agricultural systems and the role of digitalization for achieving sustainability goals. A review.

ABSTRACT: By leveraging a wide range of novel, data-driven technologies for agricultural production and agri-food value chains, digital agriculture presents potential enhancements to sustainability across food systems. Accordingly, digital agriculture has received considerable attention in policy in recent years, with emphasis mostly placed on the potential of digital agriculture to improve efficiency, productivity and food security, and less attention given to how digitalization may impact other principles of sustainable development, such as biodiversity conservation, soil protection, and human health, for example. Here, we review high-level policy and law in the German and European context to highlight a number of important institutional, societal, and legal preconditions for leveraging digital ag

SUBMITTER: MacPherson J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9258761 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature