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Digitalisation of Agri-Food Systems: A Paradigm Shift?

Roel Veraart, Vincent Blok

Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics · 2025

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Summary

Abstract Digitalisation in agri-food systems will have major concrete consequences for environmental, ethical, legal and social developments in decades to come. Because of the far reaching consequences of the event of digitalisation, recent developments in the data economy have been described as involving a paradigm shift. This paper offers a conceptual framework that aims to contribute to existing transition theory by enhancing the philosophical perspective on the multidimensional transformation of digitalisation in agri-food. The research works from a broad understanding of paradigm shifts, extrapolating it onto empirical instances of current events in agri-food. It investigates, beyond components such as innovations, policies and institutions, the onto-epistemological basis of system co

Subject
Other / interdisciplinary
Source type
Peer-reviewed study
System type
Food supply chain
DOI
10.1007/s10806-025-09954-4
Catalogue ID
SNmp4zkhyn-34pdc2
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