Special issue on Agri-Food 4.0 and digitalization in agriculture supply chains - New directions, challenges and applications

Agri-Food is a complex industry, which challenges a wide range of processes, operations, and roles world-wide. Moreover, it is largely inefficient with an increasing number of demands and constraints being placed on it, making the need for Agri-Food innovative solutions ever more important. Agri-Food related stakeholders such as manufacturers, producers and retailers, as well as government and policy making departments, are intrinsically linked to globally key challenges in terms of defining and implementing sustainable solutions and, as it happens with all industries, technology plays a key role in the operations and decision-making of the Agri-Food sector.

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