The study emphasizes how information and communication technologies can help agriculture supply chains and promote agriculture supply chain decarbonization.
Authors
Asmae El jaouhari, Laboratory of Technologies and Industrial Services, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Higher School of Technology, Fez, Morocco.
Jabir Arif, Laboratory of Technologies and Industrial Services, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Higher School of Technology, Fez, Morocco.
Ashutosh Samadhiya, Assistant Professor, Jindal Global Business School, O.P. Jindal Global University Sonipat, Haryana, India.
Farheen Naz, Department of Innovation, Management, and Marketing, University of Stavanger, Business School, Norway.
Anil Kumar, Guildhall School of Business and Law, London Metropolitan University, London, N7 8DB, United Kingdom.
Summary
The contemporary agricultural supply chain necessitates the integration of information and communication technologies to effectively mitigate the multifaceted challenges posed by climate change and rising global demand for food products. Furthermore, recent developments in information and communication technologies, such as blockchain, big data analytics, the internet of things, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, etc., have made this transformation possible.
Each of these technologies plays a particular role in enabling the agriculture supply chain ecosystem to be intelligent enough to handle today’s world’s challenges. Thus, this paper reviews the crucial information and communication technologies-enabled agriculture supply chains to understand their potential uses and contemporary developments.
The review is supported by 57 research papers from the Scopus database. Five research areas analyze the applications of the technology reviewed in the agriculture supply chain: food safety and traceability, security and information system management, wasting food, supervision and tracking, agricultural businesses and decision-making, and other applications not explicitly related to the agriculture supply chain.
The study also emphasizes how information and communication technologies can help agriculture supply chains and promote agriculture supply chain decarbonization. An information and communication technologies application framework for a decarbonized agriculture supply chain is suggested based on the research’s findings.
The framework identifies the contribution of information and communication technologies to decision-making in agriculture supply chains. The review also offers guidelines to academics, policymakers, and practitioners on managing agriculture supply chains successfully for enhanced agricultural productivity and decarbonization.
Published in: Heliyon
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