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Today, despite increased information demand from consumers and food chain players alike, Europe’s food businesses and farmers are slow at adopting digital technologies. This is due in part to the inherent complexities of relevant products and processes, and in part to the dynamically changing open network organization of the food sector with its multitude of SMEs, its cultural diversity, its differences in expectations and in the ability to serve transparency needs. The agri-food sector needs to take more advantage of the potential of digital technologies. Relevant technologies may include Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data technologies, remote and localized sensing. This chapter will engage the agri-food community in supporting the development of solutions to remove the barriers to adoption of digital technologies, taking a multi-actor approach across different supply chains (conventional and organic) from farm to fork.

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Gaspar, P.D., Soares, V.N.G.J., Caldeira, J.M.L.P. (2022). ICT-Enabled Agri-Food Systems. In: Galanakis, C.M. (eds) Environment and Climate-smart Food Production . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71571-7_12

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