Journal
SUSTAINABILITY
Volume 13, Issue 12, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/su13126702
Keywords
food sustainability; food supply chain; innovation in food; food waste and SDGs; ICTs
Funding
- French National Research Agency under the Investments for the Future Program [ANR-16-CONV-0004]
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The chapter provides a state-of-the-art analysis on ICTs used in agrofood supply chains, particularly focusing on fresh fruits and vegetables, to analyze the potential and weaknesses which exist in different forms of supply chains and suggest promising ICTs in this context.
A major challenge of Sustainable Development Goal 12 Responsible Consumption and Production is to reduce food losses along production and supply chains. This is particularly critical for fresh food products, due to their perishable and fragile nature, which makes the coordination of the actors all the more crucial to avoid wastes and losses. The rise of new technologies, referred to as Industry 4.0 powered by the internet of things, big data analytics and artificial intelligence, could bring new solutions to meet these needs. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) allow for frequent exchanges of huge amounts of information between actors in the agrofood chains to coordinate their activities. The aim of the chapter is to provide a state-of-the-art analysis on ICTs used in agrofood supply chains, with a special focus on the case of fresh fruits and vegetables, to analyze the potential and weaknesses which exist in different forms of supply chains for ICTs becoming a resource (precious, rare, non-imitable, and nonsubstitutable) prospect and to suggest promising ICTs in this context.
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