The recent COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted all the weaknesses of manufacturing systems and supply chains. In this challenging context, smallholders have faced several crises mainly related to the difficulty of finding manpower for harvesting activities and the impossibility of distributing food, due to the forced closure of many distribution channels. The main consequences were lost sales and wasted food. With the aim of increasing the responsiveness of smallholders in the face of COVID-like crises, this paper provides an overview of methodologies and approaches currently available in the literature in terms of: ICT tools, blockchain-based solutions, business models, sustainability-oriented frameworks, simulation models. The analysis of the literature provides two main outputs: (1) a list of challenges to be faced in the coming years to improve the working conditions of smallholders, (2) the definition of future research developments, which mainly concern the design of an ICT platform, which integrates multiple technological aspects.

An overview of approaches and methodologies for supporting smallholders: ICT tools, blockchain, business models, sustainability indicators, simulation models / Longo, Francesco; Mirabelli, Giovanni; Solina, Vittorio; Belli, Laura; Abdallah, Chaima Ben; Ben-Ammar, Oussama; Bottani, Eleonora; García-Gallego, José Manuel; Germanos, Manuella; González, Francisco Javier Miranda; Lacoba, Sergio Rubio; Sidhom, Lilia; Vignali, Giuseppe; Zacharewicz, Gregory. - In: PROCEDIA COMPUTER SCIENCE. - ISSN 1877-0509. - 217:(2023), pp. 1930-1939. (Intervento presentato al convegno 4th International Conference on Industry 4.0 and Smart Manufacturing tenutosi a Linz, Austria) [10.1016/j.procs.2022.12.393].

An overview of approaches and methodologies for supporting smallholders: ICT tools, blockchain, business models, sustainability indicators, simulation models

Longo, Francesco
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Belli, Laura;Bottani, Eleonora;Vignali, Giuseppe;
2023-01-01

Abstract

The recent COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted all the weaknesses of manufacturing systems and supply chains. In this challenging context, smallholders have faced several crises mainly related to the difficulty of finding manpower for harvesting activities and the impossibility of distributing food, due to the forced closure of many distribution channels. The main consequences were lost sales and wasted food. With the aim of increasing the responsiveness of smallholders in the face of COVID-like crises, this paper provides an overview of methodologies and approaches currently available in the literature in terms of: ICT tools, blockchain-based solutions, business models, sustainability-oriented frameworks, simulation models. The analysis of the literature provides two main outputs: (1) a list of challenges to be faced in the coming years to improve the working conditions of smallholders, (2) the definition of future research developments, which mainly concern the design of an ICT platform, which integrates multiple technological aspects.
2023
An overview of approaches and methodologies for supporting smallholders: ICT tools, blockchain, business models, sustainability indicators, simulation models / Longo, Francesco; Mirabelli, Giovanni; Solina, Vittorio; Belli, Laura; Abdallah, Chaima Ben; Ben-Ammar, Oussama; Bottani, Eleonora; García-Gallego, José Manuel; Germanos, Manuella; González, Francisco Javier Miranda; Lacoba, Sergio Rubio; Sidhom, Lilia; Vignali, Giuseppe; Zacharewicz, Gregory. - In: PROCEDIA COMPUTER SCIENCE. - ISSN 1877-0509. - 217:(2023), pp. 1930-1939. (Intervento presentato al convegno 4th International Conference on Industry 4.0 and Smart Manufacturing tenutosi a Linz, Austria) [10.1016/j.procs.2022.12.393].
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