Decarbonising our food systems: contextualising digitalisation for net zero
The food system is undergoing a digital transformation that connects local and global supply chains to address economic, environmental, and societal drivers. Digitalisation enables firms to meet sustainable development goals (SDGs), address climate change and the wider negative externalities of food...
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| author | Simon Pearson Steve Brewer Louise Manning Luc Bidaut George Onoufriou Aiden Durrant Georgios Leontidis Charbel Jabbour Andrea Zisman Gerard Parr Jeremy Frey Roger Maull |
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| description | The food system is undergoing a digital transformation that connects local and global supply chains to address economic, environmental, and societal drivers. Digitalisation enables firms to meet sustainable development goals (SDGs), address climate change and the wider negative externalities of food production such as biodiversity loss, and diffuse pollution. Digitalising at the business and supply chain level through public–private mechanisms for data exchange affords the opportunity for greater collaboration, visualising, and measuring activities and their socio-environmental impact, demonstrating compliance with regulatory and market requirements and providing opportunity to capture current practice and future opportunities for process and product improvement. Herein we consider digitalisation as a tool to drive innovation and transition to a decarbonised food system. We consider that deep decarbonisation of the food system can only occur when trusted emissions data are exchanged across supply chains. This requires fusion of standardised emissions measurements within a supply chain data sharing framework. This framework, likely operating as a corporate entity, would provide the foci for measurement standards, data exchange, trusted, and certified data and as a multi-stakeholder body, including regulators, that would build trust and collaboration across supply chains. This approach provides a methodology for accurate and trusted emissions data to inform consumer choice and industrial response of individual firms within a supply chain. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-4caf88cf02764ca0b7aebf35238eb6662023-05-03T04:38:57ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems2571-581X2023-05-01710.3389/fsufs.2023.10942991094299Decarbonising our food systems: contextualising digitalisation for net zeroSimon Pearson0Steve Brewer1Louise Manning2Luc Bidaut3George Onoufriou4Aiden Durrant5Georgios Leontidis6Charbel Jabbour7Andrea Zisman8Gerard Parr9Jeremy Frey10Roger Maull11Lincoln Institute for Agri-Food Technology, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, United KingdomLincoln Institute for Agri-Food Technology, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, United KingdomLincoln Institute for Agri-Food Technology, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, United KingdomSchool of Computer Science, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, United KingdomSchool of Computer Science, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, United KingdomInterdisciplinary Centre for Data and AI, School of Natural and Computing Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United KingdomInterdisciplinary Centre for Data and AI, School of Natural and Computing Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United KingdomLincoln International Business School, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, United KingdomFaculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, Open University, Milton Keynes, United KingdomSchool of Computing Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United KingdomSchool of Chemistry, University of Southampton, Southampton, United KingdomBusiness School, University of Exeter, Exeter, United KingdomThe food system is undergoing a digital transformation that connects local and global supply chains to address economic, environmental, and societal drivers. Digitalisation enables firms to meet sustainable development goals (SDGs), address climate change and the wider negative externalities of food production such as biodiversity loss, and diffuse pollution. Digitalising at the business and supply chain level through public–private mechanisms for data exchange affords the opportunity for greater collaboration, visualising, and measuring activities and their socio-environmental impact, demonstrating compliance with regulatory and market requirements and providing opportunity to capture current practice and future opportunities for process and product improvement. Herein we consider digitalisation as a tool to drive innovation and transition to a decarbonised food system. We consider that deep decarbonisation of the food system can only occur when trusted emissions data are exchanged across supply chains. This requires fusion of standardised emissions measurements within a supply chain data sharing framework. This framework, likely operating as a corporate entity, would provide the foci for measurement standards, data exchange, trusted, and certified data and as a multi-stakeholder body, including regulators, that would build trust and collaboration across supply chains. This approach provides a methodology for accurate and trusted emissions data to inform consumer choice and industrial response of individual firms within a supply chain.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsufs.2023.1094299/fulldigital systemstrust frameworkdata exchangegovernancenet zero |
| spellingShingle | Simon Pearson Steve Brewer Louise Manning Luc Bidaut George Onoufriou Aiden Durrant Georgios Leontidis Charbel Jabbour Andrea Zisman Gerard Parr Jeremy Frey Roger Maull Decarbonising our food systems: contextualising digitalisation for net zero Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems digital systems trust framework data exchange governance net zero |
| title | Decarbonising our food systems: contextualising digitalisation for net zero |
| title_full | Decarbonising our food systems: contextualising digitalisation for net zero |
| title_fullStr | Decarbonising our food systems: contextualising digitalisation for net zero |
| title_full_unstemmed | Decarbonising our food systems: contextualising digitalisation for net zero |
| title_short | Decarbonising our food systems: contextualising digitalisation for net zero |
| title_sort | decarbonising our food systems contextualising digitalisation for net zero |
| topic | digital systems trust framework data exchange governance net zero |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsufs.2023.1094299/full |
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