Viewpoint: The future of work in agri-food

Christiaensen, Luc; Rutledge, Zachariah; Taylor, J. Edward

doi:10.1016/j.foodpol.2020.101963

Cited by 122 publications

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“…Robots are widely suggested to be deployed in different scenarios during the pandemic, to help reduce the infection by performing disinfection, monitoring, delivering, food preparation, and telepresence [ [8] , [9] , [10] , [11] , [12] , [13] , [14] , [15] , [16] ]. Robots are also recommended to make intelligent decisions based on the inputs data from the population, which can be analysed through AI [ 17 ].…”

Section: Robots In Covid-19mentioning

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A literature survey of the robotic technologies during the COVID-19 pandemic

Wang

2021

Journal of Manufacturing Systems

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Since the late 2019, the COVID-19 pandemic has been spread all around the world. The pandemic is a critical challenge to the health and safety of the general public, the medical staff and the medical systems worldwide. It has been globally proposed to utilise robots during the pandemic, to improve the treatment of patients and leverage the load of the medical system. However, there is still a lack of detailed and systematic review of the robotic research for the pandemic, from the technologies’ perspective. Thus a thorough literature survey is conducted in this research and more than 280 publications have been reviewed, with the focus on robotics during the pandemic. The main contribution of this literature survey is to answer two research questions, i.e. 1) what the main research contributions are to combat the pandemic from the robotic technologies’ perspective, and 2) what the promising supporting technologies are needed during and after the pandemic to help and guide future robotics research. The current achievements of robotic technologies are reviewed and discussed in different categories, followed by the identification of the representative work’s technology readiness level. The future research trends and essential technologies are then highlighted, including artificial intelligence, 5 G, big data, wireless sensor network, and human-robot collaboration.

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Section: Robots In Covid-19mentioning

confidence: 99%

A literature survey of the robotic technologies during the COVID-19 pandemic

Wang

2021

Journal of Manufacturing Systems

194

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“…The youth and their aspiration for non-agricultural futures but their desire to stay in their rural homes provides entry points support. Earlier studies have already highlighted the importance of the rural non-farm economy (Christiaensen et al 2013) as well as the potential of agriculture value chains as a promising employment option for rural youth (Christiaensen et al 2020;FAO 2017;Imai et al 2017;Ripoll et al 2017). This could be the best of both worlds: business-related aspirations of rural youth are supported, while the opportunities largely remain in their rural areas.…”

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Who Wants to Farm? Answers Depend on How You Ask: A Case Study on Youth Aspirations in Kenya

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While there is a consensus that rural poverty has to be reduced, there are two opposing views on the role that agriculture can play in this regard: a “farm-based” and an “off-farm led” development paradigm where the respective other sector is merely a complementary income source during a transition period. The latter paradigm is supported by studies finding that rural youth in sub-Saharan Africa are not particularly interested in agriculture. However, policy discourse on youth in agriculture often situates their aspirations as either full-time farming or non-farming, thus either supporting or opposing one or the other of the two paradigms, while neglecting the shades of grey between these two extremes. Using a mixed-methods approach—a household survey and a narrative-based tool called SenseMaker—to collect data from both adults and youth in 261 households in rural Kenya, this study suggests that this categorical understanding needs to be revisited to inform rural development strategies based on the actual aspirations of rural youth.

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“…Technological change will be a fundamental feature for the food supply chain, from agriculture to food processing. Investments will include the use of advanced robotic systems that will dramatically reduce the need for workers and the technologically advanced AFS with a capable workforce (Christiaensen, Rutledge, & Taylor, 2020). To effectively achieve nutritional goals, it is necessary to adopt a holistic approach to sustainable food systems (Barcaccia et al, 2020; Dupouy & Gurinovic, 2020).…”

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“…Seventeen studies were collected under the AGRI2 category (Alekseev, Ruschickaya, & Yurchenko, 2020; Barcaccia et al, 2020; Blay‐Palmer et al, 2020; Christiaensen et al, 2020; Deaton & Deaton, 2020; Dupouy & Gurinovic, 2020; Fanzo et al, 2020; Gregorioa & Ancog, 2020; Hossain, 2020; Kennedy, Jafari, Stamoulis, & Callens, 2020; Ma, Peng, Soon, et al, 2020; Mausch et al, 2020; Popovic et al, 2020; Rowan & Galanakis, 2020; Savary et al, 2020; Singh et al, 2020; Sperling et al, 2020).…”

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Agri‐food sector and entrepreneurship during the COVID‐19 crisis: A systematic literature review and research agenda

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The related literature highlighted the impact of COVID‐19 on agri‐food entrepreneurship, the government measures and support on agri‐food entrepreneurship, and the shift of agri‐food entrepreneurship towards digitization, innovative ideas, and new market solutions. Agri‐food entrepreneurship faces numerous challenges, but at the same time, the crisis can generate opportunities. The studies made so far indicate that COVID‐19 can cause transformational changes to agri‐food entrepreneurship, although further research is needed to clarify open issues.

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Viewpoint: The future of work in agri-food

Cited by 122 publications

References 57 publications

A literature survey of the robotic technologies during the COVID-19 pandemic

A literature survey of the robotic technologies during the COVID-19 pandemic

Who Wants to Farm? Answers Depend on How You Ask: A Case Study on Youth Aspirations in Kenya

Agri‐food sector and entrepreneurship during the COVID‐19 crisis: A systematic literature review and research agenda

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