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    Embedding digital agriculture into sustainable Australian food systems: pathways and pitfalls to value creation

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    Authors
    Cook, Simon
    Jackson, Elizabeth
    Fisher, Myles
    Baker, Derek
    Diepeveen, Dean
    Date
    2021
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Cook, S. and Jackson, E. and Fisher, M. and Baker, D. and Diepeveen, D. 2021. Embedding digital agriculture into sustainable Australian food systems: pathways and pitfalls to value creation. International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability.
    Source Title
    International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability
    DOI
    10.1080/14735903.2021.1937881
    ISSN
    1473-5903
    Faculty
    Faculty of Business and Law
    School
    School of Management and Marketing
    Remarks

    This is an accepted manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability on 03 Jul 2021 available online at http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/14735903.2021.1937881

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    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/84345
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    Digital agriculture is exciting attention because of an expectation that food systems will be disrupted by new digital technologies through improvements in precision, efficiency, volume, speed of process or identity of product. This is against the background of the drive for sustainability in food systems. A diversity of technology applications is unilaterally emerging in all food chains with benefits realized through human acceptance and adoption in business processes. This paper focuses on Australia but the lessons apply to digital agriculture globally. We propose that sustainable food systems frameworks identify the relation of individual changes to broader systemic change, to relate individual changes to one another and to understand how multiple changes within a system can trigger major shifts in entire agri-food chains. With this rapidly-changing landscape in mind, we argue that food system frameworks cover five domains: production, market, capitals, governance and data technologies. We analyse experience from agricultural systems, compare it to digitization in non-agricultural systems and conclude that change will be both disruptive and cumulative. We consider the role of systems governance to be under-reported. Governance will prove critical in areas of IP legislation, policy harmonization and targeted investment.

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