Agriculture 4.0: A systematic literature review on the paradigm, technologies and benefits

Maffezzoli, Federico Angelo; Ardolino, Marco; Bacchetti, Andrea; Perona, Marco; Renga, Filippo

doi:10.1016/j.futures.2022.102998

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“…Agriculture 4.0 is basically the digitization of the classic agricultural farm operations. (Maffezzoli et al, 2022) Agriculture 4.0 offers a strong opportunity to stimulate economic growth and increase the incomes of companies working in the agricultural sector by increasing the efficiency of agricultural production. Because of these aspects Agriculture 4.0 also plays a decisive role in terms of sustainability, as it enables agricultural practices to adapt to climate change, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and use inputs such as water and fertilizers more efficiently.…”

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“…According to Maffezzoli et al (2022) there are several main technologies that can be effective in the increased digitalization and connectivity of agricultural processes.…”

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“…It also helps detect dry parts that need irrigation and sprays crops five times faster than conventional machines. In addition to tracking changes in plants and indicators of their health, and alerting farmers to the presence of any diseases (Maffezzoli et al, 2022).…”

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XVI. International Conference on Logistics in Agriculture 2022: Conference Proceedings

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The task of vehicle-type product design has never been trivial. The paper shows the concept of a work in progress, a research work by a multidisciplinary team, ready to use the available and most modern automation equipment right where it is needed -down at the earth in this case. The project shall allow for autonomous 0-24 presence of specially designed device -a robot taking care of corn fields, eliminating weeds and performing other usually manual functions keeping the shape of the field and ground at level and in extent freed of limitations that can exist in case of a human labor. It is in the same time bringing some fresh interests to agriculture as such, and may even bring some part of people back to this business, rather than escaping to other nowadays more popular fields for some. 4 XVI. INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LOGISTICS IN AGRICULTURE 2022 CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

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“…According to Maffezzoli et al (2022) there are several main technologies that can be effective in the increased digitalization and connectivity of agricultural processes.…”

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“…Digital transformation of agriculture [142,143] is ongoing in the well developed areas mainly, while the greater effect is expected in remote unpopulated areas with lack of skilled staff. One of the problems for taking that advantage is power and data transmission networks availability [144].…”

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A Mini-Review of Current Activities and Future Trends in Agrivoltaics

Klokov¹,

Loktionov²,

Loktionov³

et al. 2023

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Agrivoltaics (Agri-PV, AV) – the joint use of land for the production of agricultural products and energy – has recently been rapidly gaining popularity, as it can significantly increase income per unit of land area. In a broad sense, AV systems can include converters of not only solar, but also energy from any other local renewable source, including bioenergy. Current approach to AV represents an evolutionary development of agroecology and integrated PV power supply to the grid. That results in nearly doubled income per unit area. While AV could provide a basis for revolution in large-scale unmanned precision agriculture and smart farming which is impossible without on-site power supply, chemical fertilisation and pesticides reduction, and yield processing on-site. These approaches could change the logistics and the added value production chain in agriculture dramatically, and so, reduce its carbon footprint. Utilisation of decommissioned solar panels in AV could make the technology twice cheaper and postpone the need for bulk PV recycling. Unlike the mainstream discourse on the topic, this review feature is in focusing on the possibilities for AV to be stronger integrated into agriculture that could also help in relevant legal collisions (considered as neither rather than both components) resolution.

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“…To overcome these challenges, for decades, calls have been made to fundamentally transform agricultural practices to become sustainable (e.g., Carson, 1962). In the recent past, these calls have been supplemented by great hopes in digital innovations (Ekardt, forthcoming;Lowry et al, 2019;Zhang et al, 2021;Ekardt and Rath, 2022;Maffezzoli et al, 2022). Digital innovations are expected to contribute to environmental protection by increasing resource and energy efficiency for example through digital precision fertilization.…”

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Achieving the nutrient reduction objective of the Farm to Fork Strategy. An assessment of CAP subsidies for precision fertilization and sustainable agricultural practices in Germany

Heyl

Ekardt

Roos

et al. 2023

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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The Farm to Fork Strategy of the EU aims at sustainable food systems. One objective of the Strategy is to reduce nutrient losses by at least 50% resulting in at least 20% less fertilizer use by 2030. To this end, Member States are expected to extend digital precision fertilization and sustainable agricultural practices through the Common Agricultural Policy. In this context, this article applies a qualitative governance analysis which aims to assess the extent to which the measures proposed by the Farm to Fork Strategy, i.e., digital precision fertilization and sustainable agricultural practices, contribute to the nutrient objective of the Farm to Fork Strategy. The article analyses how these measures are implemented through the Common Agricultural Policy in Germany and Saxony. Results show that the nutrient objective of the Farm to Fork Strategy itself offers shortcomings. Germany offers some, yet overall limited, support for sustainable agricultural practices and digital precision fertilization. Hence, the Common Agricultural Policy will to a limited extend only contribute to the objective of the Strategy. The results furthermore highlight some general shortcomings of digitalization as sustainability strategy in the agricultural sector including typical governance issues (rebound and enforcement problems), and point to the advantages of quantity-based policy instruments.

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Agriculture 4.0: A systematic literature review on the paradigm, technologies and benefits

Cited by 59 publications

References 92 publications

XVI. International Conference on Logistics in Agriculture 2022: Conference Proceedings

XVI. International Conference on Logistics in Agriculture 2022: Conference Proceedings

A Mini-Review of Current Activities and Future Trends in Agrivoltaics

Achieving the nutrient reduction objective of the Farm to Fork Strategy. An assessment of CAP subsidies for precision fertilization and sustainable agricultural practices in Germany

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