In collaboration with Ministries of Agriculture and local policy-making bodies in the UK, Spain, Chile and Argentina as well as 100+ agri-food stakeholders, this research has identified that farmers and small food supply chain stakeholders are facing barriers of many types to develop their production processes and to establish market connections with the other actors in the value chain effectively, but more importantly, policy-making strategies are also not reacting at the same required pace. This implies that regulations are facing several challenged to support the use and / or standardization of digital technologies in the agricultural sector, therefore policy-making becomes ineffective.
This impact case is currently supported by British and international supply chain stakeholder as well government and policy-making bodies to establish a new and novel approach to enhance participatory and collaborative uses of new digital technologies in the agriculture sector to enhance agri-food policy-making efficiency.
This work will generate direct benefit in policy making strategies by enhancing digitations strategies, especially in connection to farmers and their requirements to be better included in the agriculture value chain commercialization and trade processes.
This work is currently supported by the H2020 RUC-APS project and also is supported by Ministries of Agriculture to be included on their strategies.
Dr Jorge Hernandez
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