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Digital Technologies for Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems

  • 1st Edition - January 14, 2026
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Tarek Ben Hassen, Hamid El Bilali
  • Language: English

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Description

Digital Technologies for Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems offers a comprehensive review of digital technology's role in supporting sustainable agriculture and food systems. The book explores how digital technologies like precision agriculture, robots, artificial intelligence, and blockchain may boost agricultural output and efficiency while lowering environmental impact. It also investigates how these technologies might assist farmers in connecting with markets, increasing supply chain traceability, and boosting food safety and quality. Serving as a comprehensive guide, this book educates and helps farmers, policymakers, researchers, industry professionals, and other value chain actors in leveraging digital innovations. It also address the pressing challenges faced by the agri-food sector, such as food insecurity, environmental degradation, natural resources depletion, and climate change.

Key features

  • Shows how to integrate digital technologies into sustainable agriculture and food systems to increase the supply chain traceability, while boosting food safety and quality
  • Offers insights into international standards, incentive programs, and successful policy approaches, helping policymakers shape effective policies that foster sustainable agricultural practices
  • Explores policy considerations, regulatory frameworks, and legal aspects associated with digital agriculture

Readership

Researchers and scholars in agriculture, agronomy, environmental science, computer science, and food science. Policymakers and government officials interested in agriculture and sustainability policies

Table of contents

1. Introduction

2. Digital innovations in farming practices

3. How Data and the Digital Technologies are shaping the Data Economy for AgriFood Systems

4. Data management and analytics in agriculture

5. IoT and sensor technologies in agri-food systems

6. Digital Tools for Efficient Water Management in Agriculture: Insights from the MENA Region

7. How Does Context Shape Climate-Smart Agricultural Technology Adoption? A Data-Driven Approach for Tailored Solutions for Smallholder Farmers

8. From farm to future: Driving sustainable livestock production through digitalization

9. Challenges and Opportunities in the Integration of Digital Technologies into Forest Management

10. Application of Remote Sensing in Tree Windbreak and Shelterbelt Research: Assessing Structural Type and Efficiency in Ovche Pole, North Macedonia

11. Food Industry 4.0: Digital Transformation for Sustainable and Smart Food Systems

12. Digital transformation in food distribution: Leveraging emerging technologies for efficiency, sustainability and resilience

13. Contribution of digital technologies to smart and sustainable consumption patterns

14. Blockchain and traceability in food systems

15. Future perspectives and emerging trends

Review quotes

"The ever-increasing focus on sustainable agriculture and the entire food system has become an important topic for anyone involved in the food production.... the progress in the capabilities of digital technologies to play a significant part in this space is undeniable.... The book comprises 15 chapters.... [featuring] topics such as: digital innovations in farming practices, how data and digital technologies shape the data economy and agrifood systems, data management and analytics, IoT and sensor technologies, and digital solutions for sustainable water management.... [Also], frameworks for assessing the suitability of climate-smart technologies for smallholder farmers, driving livestock production through digitalisation, using such technologies in forest management, leveraging smart technologies in the food industry, applications in transport logistics, blockchain traceability and applications.... ending with emerging trends and future perspectives. This book will serve anyone in the agriculture and food system fields with valuable perspectives on the technologies currently available to contribute to the efficiency and sustainability of the food system." Review by Professor Gunnar Sigge, FST Magazine, July 2026

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: January 28, 2026
  • Language: English

About the editors

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Tarek Ben Hassen

Tarek Ben Hassen is an Associate Professor of Public Policy at the Department of International Affairs at Qatar University. His research focuses on studying the dynamics of sustainability and innovation within food systems. He has several publications in reputed international journals, including Sustainability, Foods, the Regional and Urban Economics Journal, Environmental Science and Pollution Research, and Frontiers in Nutrition.

Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor of Public Policy, Department of International Affairs, Qatar University, Qatar

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Hamid El Bilali

Hamid El Bilali is a senior researcher at the International Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies (CIHEAM-Bari). Since December 2004, he has been engaged in research, training, and cooperation activities relating to sustainable food systems, food security, food losses and waste, and sustainable food consumption and production. He is the author of several scientific publications (more than 200 journal and conference papers); and a member of the editorial boards of numerous journals dealing with agriculture and food (e.g., Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems; Advances in Nutrition and Food Sciences; Sustainable Horizons; Food Systems and Community Development; Journal of Food Security; American Journal of Rural Development).

Affiliations and expertise
Senior Researcher, CIHEAM-Bari, Italy

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