Agri-Food 4.0: Innovations, Challenges and Strategies

The Agri-Food industry currently faces a range of challenges, from food safety and security, demand, and supply gaps to the maintenance of product quality and issues in product traceability. Smart digital technologies have opened a complete paradigm shift, providing solutions to these challenges, and helping move towards safe, resilient, responsive, and eventually profit-driven supply chains.

The use of these digital technologies by Agri-Food supply chains can bring significant changes in food supply chain management by reducing food wastage, real-time product monitoring, and reducing scalability issues. Agri-Food 4.0: Innovations, Challenges and Strategies addresses new research on digital technologies in the industry, including smart packaging, smart warehousing, effective inventory control, blockchain technology, artificial intelligence, and other Industry 4.0 concepts.

Agri-Food 4.0 explores the challenges and complexities in implementing such technologies, helping policymakers in the agri-food sector with impact assessment and digital transformation towards creating a sustainable industry.

Dr. Rahul S. Mor holds a Ph.D. in Industrial and Production Engineering, specializing in Supply Chain & Operations Analytics. He currently works as Assistant Professor at the Department of Food Engineering, National Institute of Food Technology Entrepreneurship and Management, Kundli, Sonepat, India, researching operational design & development, agri-food supply chain, and manufacturing systems.

Dr. Dinesh Kumar holds a Ph.D. in Supply Chain Management and is currently working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Production and Industrial Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur, India. His research areas are supply chain management, perishable inventory management and operations management.

Dr. Anupama Singh has over 27 years of academic experience in the agri-food processing sectors and is Professor and Head at the Department of Food Engineering, National Institute of Food Technology Entrepreneurship and Management, Kundli, Sonepat, India. Her research includes bio-waste utilization, sustainable food-processing novel technologies, product development and value addition.