Byte by byte: Policy innovation for transforming Africa’s food system with digital technologies

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Keyword(s):  
Food System ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Policy Innovation

scholarly journals Event Review of BPLTC III: Food Control

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-123
Author(s):  
Pamela Honor Tudge
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Food System ◽  
Food Studies ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Food Control ◽  
Technological Changes

In Eastern Bloc’s recent exhibition BPLTC 111: Food Control new media artists use digital technologies as both a form of aesthetic presentation and a kind of mimicry to critique the technologically driven industrial food system. This exhibition was the last of a three-part exhibition on Biopolitics. The objective of the show is to explore how research and technological changes in society influence the ways food is distributed and accessed within contemporary regimes--a familiar topic to many food studies scholars.

scholarly journals Agriculture Trade Reform and Sustainable and Inclusive Food Security

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie Honey
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Food System ◽  
Market Access ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Inclusive Growth ◽  
Trade Reform ◽  
Adverse Impacts ◽  
Increase Productivity ◽  
Potential Food

The food system in the Asia-Pacific needs to be viewed as a whole, from production to plate, in order not only to achieve food security in the region but also to contribute to sustainable and inclusive growth. To that end, there is a strong case for AsiaPacific economies to bring a renewed focus to structural reform in agriculture, including substantially reducing trade-distorting subsidies and liberalising market access barriers, alongside seeking to increase productivity, improve infrastructure and leverage digital technologies. The Covid-19 pandemic underscores the importance of open, undistorted markets, and will also stand economies in good stead in the longer term as adverse impacts from climate change add to production challenges and potential food insecurity.

PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS OF TRANSITION TO A DIGITAL ECONOMY IN THE AGRI-FOOD SECTOR

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 1858-1868
Author(s):  
N.V. Reshetnikova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Exchange ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Food System ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Digital Economy ◽  
Food Sector ◽  
Actual Problem ◽  
Food Complex

The actual problem of the agrifood system effective development in Russia is the transition to a digital economy, which should bring it to a new level of development, allowing it to meet the growing needs of the country’s population for high-quality food. Digital technologies are aimed at ensuring optimal management in each link of the agri-food system, and its adaptation to external changes. The introduction of digital technologies in the agri-food complex is promising for the economy as a whole. Digitization of the agri-food sector means an increase in the speed of information exchange within the system, monitoring of supply and demand, prices and parameters of production processes, an increase in the quality of management decisions. The purpose of the study is to assess the prospects, risks and constraints on the introduction of digital technologies in the management of the agri-food complex. The types of digital technologies that are promising for use in the agri-food complex with an emphasis on technologies that ensure digitalization in crop and livestock production, the processes of processing agricultural raw materials and the sale of final products are considered. The effectiveness of using digital technologies in the agricultural sector is shown: they contribute to resource conservation and optimization of production and marketing processes. The analysis of the dynamics of the Russian innovation system was carried out using the indicators of the Global Innovation Index, its strengths and weaknesses were highlighted, and the most important development directions were identified. The regulatory and legal foundations of the digitalization process in the agri-food system have been studied. The problems of introducing digital technologies in the management of the agri-food sector, namely, their weak economic and infrastructural accessibility, the need to improve the qualifications of agricultural workers in the field of information and communication technologies, the preferential orientation of state programs on large agribusiness, the need to support the implementation of digitalization programs in small and medium enterprises of the agri-food sector. Attention is drawn to the risks of reducing the competitiveness of agricultural enterprises that are not ready for the introduction of innovative digital technologies.

scholarly journals Digital Technologies, Big Data, and Agricultural Innovation

2020 ◽  
pp. 207-226
Author(s):  
Steven T. Sonka
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Food System ◽  
Production Systems ◽  
Agricultural Practices ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Effective Implementation ◽  
Societal Challenges ◽  
Safe Food ◽  
Expanding Population

Abstract Innovation in agricultural practices and food system performance is urgently needed to effectively respond to societal challenges of today and tomorrow. Expanding population, a changing climate, environmental distress, and the need for more nutritious and safe food supplies are only a few of those challenges. In response, new tools employing digital technology and big data are being developed and applied within agricultural production systems. This chapter explores the potential for the effective implementation of such tools and their prospective impact. While these tools provide the means to measure agricultural production activities as they happen, it is important to stress that adoption hinges on both technological and economic factors. The tools of digital technologies and big data are intriguing because their implementation is a key form of innovation and because the use of these technologies can foster additional innovation by making existing innovation systems even more effective.

Strategic Use of Agriculture Information System by Agripreneurs in Rural Economies

2021 ◽  
pp. 179-195
Author(s):  
Krishnadas R. ◽  
Renganathan R.
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Food System ◽  
Information Access ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Agricultural Technologies ◽  
Lack Of Information ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Rural Economies

The penetration of digital technologies has opened new avenues to integrate rural farmers into a new digitally driven agri-food system. Digitalization is fundamentally changing the way of the agricultural technologies and such new technologies help farmers, manufacturers, retailers, and customers in their daily activities. The development of digital technologies with the presence of information systems is essential in altering the mode of business processes. However, on the other hand, the differences between rural and urban technological facilities broadens due to a lack of information access. To bridge the rural and urban divide, technologies can play an important role among rural entrepreneurs. This chapter is an attempt to investigate the agricultural entrepreneurs or agripreneurs use of agricultural information systems to implement innovative approaches in dynamic market conditions.

scholarly journals Digitalization and the third food regime

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louisa Prause ◽  
Sarah Hackfort ◽  
Margit Lindgren
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Food System ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Economic Restructuring ◽  
Commodity Chain ◽  
Food Regime ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
The Third ◽  
Market Shares

Abstract This article asks how the application of digital technologies is changing the organization of the agri-food system in the context of the third food regime. The academic debate on digitalization and food largely focuses on the input and farm level. Yet, based on the analysis of 280 digital services and products, we show that digital technologies are now being used along the entire food commodity chain. We argue that digital technologies in the third food regime serve on the one hand as a continuation of established information and communication technologies, thus deepening certain features of the existing food regime such as the retail sector’s control over global commodity chains. On the other hand, digital technologies also introduce new forms of control and value extraction based on the use of data and pave the way for large tech companies to take over market shares in the agri-food sector. Finally, we find that multinational agri-food companies are starting to take on the business models of leading digital tech companies, for instance by developing digital platforms throughout the agri-food system. We argue that this shows that the broader economic restructuring of neoliberal capitalism towards digital capitalism is also making its way into the agri-food system.

scholarly journals GLOBAL FOOD SYSTEM: DIGITAL ASPECTS OF TRANSFORMATION

2021 ◽  
Vol 230 (4) ◽  
pp. 217-222
Author(s):  
L.­S. ­ REVENKO ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Food System ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Digital Innovation ◽  
Global Food System ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Global Food

The article deals with the problem of digital aspects of the transformation of the global food system. It analyzes the vectors of changes in general approaches to the system and its elements attribute and assesses the role of digital innovation in improving the efficiency of the global food system in the face of deteriorating food security at the global and regional levels. The article emphasizes the ambiguous nature of the impact of digital technologies on the elements of the food system.

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