Digital Technology Increases the Sustainability of Cross-Border Agro-Food Supply Chains: A Review

Gaofeng Wang, Shuai Li, Yang Yi, Yingying Wang and Changhoon Shin ()
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Gaofeng Wang: School of Management, Henan University of Technology, Zhengzhou 450001, China
Shuai Li: School of Management, Henan University of Technology, Zhengzhou 450001, China
Yang Yi: School of Management, Henan University of Technology, Zhengzhou 450001, China
Yingying Wang: School of Management, Henan University of Technology, Zhengzhou 450001, China
Changhoon Shin: College of Ocean Science and Engineering, Korea Maritime and Ocean University, Busan 49112, Republic of Korea

Agriculture, 2024, vol. 14, issue 6, 1-29

Abstract: The increasing prominence of climate change, geopolitical crises, and global economic slowdown highlights the challenges and structural deficiencies of traditional cross-border agro-food supply chains. As a result, there has been a growing consensus on the need to leverage digital technology to rebuild and innovate a safe, stable, and sustainable global food system. This study assessed the knowledge progress and development trends in the sustainable development of cross-border agro-food supply chains enabled by digital technology. A total of 352 authoritative papers from the core Web of Science database were selected for analysis. The Citespace tool was utilized to visually examine research elements. The findings reveal that research outcomes in this territory experienced a significant period of rapid growth, particularly after 2020. Sustainability and IEEE Access are the journals with the highest and second-highest number of publications. China and the France National Institute are the countries and research institutions with the largest number of publications in this field. The research hotspots are mainly the application of digital technologies, food safety, and supply chain system model innovation. In the past ten years, the research in this territory has gone through three stages: precise timeliness orientation, intelligent strategic decision-making orientation, and model predictability orientation. We further construct the ‘antecedent–practice–performance’ conceptual framework of the sustainability of the digital technology-enabled cross-border agro-food supply chain. Finally, this paper presents the potential research directions in this territory, focusing on four aspects: research method, research mechanism, research topic, and research frontier.

Keywords: cross-border supply chains; agro-food sector; digital technologies; sustainable agro-food systems (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q1 Q10 Q11 Q12 Q13 Q14 Q15 Q16 Q17 Q18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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