This paper presents research challenges on security and privacy issues in the field of green
IoT-based agriculture. We start by describing a four-tier green IoT-based agriculture …

With the deep combination of both modern information technology and traditional
agriculture, the era of agriculture 4.0, which takes the form of smart agriculture, has come …

The traditional agricultural supply chain (ASC) has been overwhelmed by several
challenges, including financing risk, counterparty risk, and lack of consumer trust. Platforms …

Agri-food value chains (AVCs) intermediate the flow of products between largely rural
farmers, fisherfolk, or herders and increasingly urban consumers. The theoretical models …

Back cover blurb Rising agricultural productivity has driven improvements in living standards
for millennia. Today, redoubling that effort in developing countries is critical to reducing …

Poverty is prevalent in the small-farm sector of many developing countries. A large literature
suggests that contract farming—a preharvest agreement between farmers and buyers—can …

For most poor countries of today, using agriculture for development is widely recognized as
a promising strategy. Yet, in these countries, investment in agriculture has mostly been …

The conjunction of climate, food, and financial crises in the late 2000s triggered renewed
interest in farmland and agribusiness investments around the world. This phenomenon …

Following the food price crisis in 2008, African governments implemented policies aiming at
crowding in investment in rice value chain upgrading to help domestic rice compete with …

The Vietnamese government is currently attempting to upgrade rice value chains in the
Mekong River Delta by encouraging (i) vertical coordination between exporters and farmers …