The Digitalization of Agriculture and Rural Areas: Towards a Taxonomy of the Impacts

Silvia Rolandi, Gianluca Brunori, Manlio Bacco and Ivano Scotti
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Silvia Rolandi: Department of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Sciences, University of Pisa, 56124 Pisa, Italy
Gianluca Brunori: Department of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Sciences, University of Pisa, 56124 Pisa, Italy
Manlio Bacco: Institute of Information Science and Technologies (ISTI), CNR, 56127 Pisa, Italy
Ivano Scotti: Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Food Sciences, University of Molise, 86100 Campobasso, Italy

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 9, 1-16

Abstract: The literature about digitalization in agriculture and rural areas is vast and sectorial at the same time. Both international political institutions and practitioners are interested in promoting digital technology, indicating and describing potential benefits and risks. Meanwhile, academics analyze the actual and possible impacts of digital technologies by using case studies. However, the extensive literature makes it challenging to derive a comprehensive synthesis of the possible impacts that digital technologies are and might generate in the rural domains. In the given context, the present work aims at contributing to the construction of a framework providing a first classification of the digital technologies’ impacts to use in both research and a political agenda.

Keywords: agriculture; digital technologies; digitalization; socioeconomic impacts (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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