Sustainable digitalisation - a system thinking approach for determining costs and benefits in the agri-sector

K. Soma, G. Brunori, C. Giagnocavo, F. Meulman, M. Ryan, R.M. Heredia Hortigüela, C. Iliopoulos, M. Paulus, A. Ferrari, E. Kilis, S. Grando, V. Bellon-Maurel, A. Knierim, A. Gobrecht, T. Selnes, L. Ortolani, M. Bacco and C. Mannari

Agricultural Systems, 2026, vol. 231, issue C

Abstract: The digital transformation of agriculture is widely promoted as a pathway to sustainability, yet the actual outcomes of digitalisation remain uncertain and context-dependent. As such, technology uptake among businesses can have positive impacts on individual farms, while the aggregated outcomes of digitalisation involving multiple farms and multi-actors in associated networks are fully uncertain. The novelty of this research is the introduction of an approach to investigate costs and benefits in different contexts at different levels of digitalisation.

Keywords: Digitalisation; Agriculture; Sustainability; System-thinking; Cost-benefit; Socio-economic; European agriculture (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
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DOI: 10.1016/j.agsy.2025.104529

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