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Future Internet for Safe and Healthy Food from Farm to Fork

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in the coming decades: the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) estimates an increase of the world population from the current 6 billion people to 9-11 billion people by 2050 leading to a doubling of world-wide food demand (FAO 2009). In the meantime, we have already exceeded the carrying capacity of planet Earth with the current methods of agricultural production. Further globalization, climate change, growing welfare in emerging economies, a shift from a fuel-based towards a bio-based economy in the industrialized countries and competing claims on land, fresh water and labor will complicate the challenge to feed the world within the carrying capacity of planet Earth without further pollution or overexploitation. In industrialized countries, it is expected that novel technologies will decrease the gap between actual and attainable yields based on agro-ecological endowments under rain-fed high-input farming which will lead to an increase in food supply, locally up to a potential of 60% (Bruinsma 2003). Beside food security and sustainability, food safety has increasingly become a very important issue driven by scandals such as polluted baby milk powder in China or contamination of horse meat in Europe. These might be isolated incidents, but they have a huge impact on the overall perception of the integrity of food production. In relation to these issues, transparency in food network

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  • Wolfert, Sjaak, 2014. "Future Internet for Safe and Healthy Food from Farm to Fork," International Journal on Food System Dynamics, International Center for Management, Communication, and Research, vol. 4(4), pages 1-2, March.
  • Handle: RePEc:ags:ijofsd:164814
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.164814
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    1. Theocharis Moysiadis & Konstantina Spanaki & Ayalew Kassahun & Sabine Kläser & Nicolas Becker & George Alexiou & Nikolaos Zotos & Iliada Karali, 2022. "AgriFood Supply Chain Traceability: Data Sharing in a farm-to-fork case," Post-Print hal-03766179, HAL.
    2. Maria, Kernecker & Maria, Busse & Andrea, Knierim, 2021. "Exploring actors, their constellations, and roles in digital agricultural innovations," Agricultural Systems, Elsevier, vol. 186(C).
    3. Fan Zhang & Wenyu Zhang & Xiwen Luo & Zhigang Zhang & Yueteng Lu & Ben Wang, 2022. "Developing an IoT-Enabled Cloud Management Platform for Agricultural Machinery Equipped with Automatic Navigation Systems," Agriculture, MDPI, vol. 12(2), pages 1-19, February.
    4. Maurizio Cutini & Carlo Bisaglia & Massimo Brambilla & Andrea Bragaglio & Federico Pallottino & Alberto Assirelli & Elio Romano & Alessandro Montaghi & Elisabetta Leo & Marco Pezzola & Claudio Maroni , 2023. "A Co-Simulation Virtual Reality Machinery Simulator for Advanced Precision Agriculture Applications," Agriculture, MDPI, vol. 13(8), pages 1-21, August.
    5. Wolfert, Sjaak & Verdouw, Cor & van Wassenaer, Lan & Dolfsma, Wilfred & Klerkx, Laurens, 2023. "Digital innovation ecosystems in agri-food: design principles and organizational framework," Agricultural Systems, Elsevier, vol. 204(C).
    6. Görkem Giray & Cagatay Catal, 2021. "Design of a Data Management Reference Architecture for Sustainable Agriculture," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(13), pages 1-17, June.
    7. Șerbănel Cristiana-Ioana, 2021. "A Panorama of Digitalization Tendencies in the European Agriculture Sector," Proceedings of the International Conference on Business Excellence, Sciendo, vol. 15(1), pages 352-363, December.
    8. Jangsik Bae & Meonghun Lee & Changsun Shin, 2019. "A Data-Based Fault-Detection Model for Wireless Sensor Networks," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(21), pages 1-15, November.
    9. Wolfert, Sjaak & Ge, Lan & Verdouw, Cor & Bogaardt, Marc-Jeroen, 2017. "Big Data in Smart Farming – A review," Agricultural Systems, Elsevier, vol. 153(C), pages 69-80.

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