The objective of this chapter is to examine how financial technology and artificial intelligence
are playing a crucial role in ensuring food security in the agriculture sector. The chapter …

Crop protection is a key activity for the sustainability and feasibility of agriculture in a current
context of climate change, which is causing the destabilization of agricultural practices and …

There remains the advantage of time savings. Hereby, the task of agricultural engineering
development is the creation of intelligent and simple to operate, so called “smart” systems …

Agriculture 4.0 refers to systems that employ drones, robotics, Internet of Things (IoT),
vertical farms, artificial intelligence (AI), and solar energy. Through the integration of digital …

Threats to global food security from multiple sources, such as population growth, ageing
farming populations, meat consumption trends, climate-change effects on abiotic and biotic …

This chapter highlights the challenges faced by agricultural enterprises in safeguarding their
crops from pests, diseases, and environmental stressors. By examining the evolution of plant …

The rapid development of new technologies and the changing landscape of the online world
(eg, Internet of Things (IoT), Internet of All, cloud-based solutions) provide a unique …

Agricultural production finds itself in an area of tension. As a critical infrastructure, it has the
task of reliably feeding a growing global population and supplying it with energy. However …

The information that crops offer is turned into profitable decisions only when efficiently
managed. Current advances in data management are making Smart Farming grow …

Agriculture is taking advantage of the Internet of Things paradigm and of the use of
autonomous vehicles. The 21st century farm will be run by interconnected vehicles: an …