Trends of the Agricultural Sector in Era 4.0

126 Pages·2022·4.182 MB·English

by  Vítor João Pereira Domingues Martinho

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Trends of the Agricultural
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Vítor João Pereira Domingues Martinho
Trends of the Agricultural
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VítorJoãoPereiraDominguesMartinho
AgriculturalSchool(ESAV)
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PolytechnicInstituteofViseu(IPV)
Viseu,Portugal
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Acknowledgements
ThisworkisfundedbyNationalFundsthroughtheFCT,FoundationforScienceand
Technology, I.P., within the scope of the project Refª UIDB/00681/2020. Further-
more, we would like to thank the CERNAS Research Centre and the Polytechnic
InstituteofViseufortheirsupport.
I would also like to thank all those who have contributed in some way to this
work.
AspecialthankstomywifeLúciaDominguesMartinhoandmytwodaughters
InêsDominguesMartinhoandIsabelDominguesMartinho.
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About This Book
This book is an overview of the impacts on the agricultural sector worldwide of
Era 4.0, highlighting dimensions related to Agriculture, Food and Industry (4.0).
The main topics discussed are those associated with IoT in the various sectors of
the economy and their impacts on the sustainability of the farms. Specifically, the
followingdimensionswereaddressed:impactsofEra4.0onagriculturearoundthe
world and on different farming activities; relations between Agriculture 4.0, Food
4.0andIndustry4.0andthevariousdimensionsofAgriculture4.0.Thereisadeep
concern with the relationship between sustainability and agricultural competitive-
ness, where the smart concept is called to contribute. This book can be a relevant
contribution,inthesedomains,withinterestinginsightsforpolicymakers,students,
researchersandeconomicstakeholders.
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Contents
1 Bibliometric Analysis on Era 4.0: Main Highlights
fortheAgriculturalSector ...................................... 1
1.1 Introduction ............................................... 1
1.2 BibliometricAnalysisfortheTopic“Agricultur*4.0” ............ 2
1.2.1 Co-authorship ....................................... 2
1.2.2 Co-occurrence ....................................... 10
1.2.3 Citation ............................................. 11
1.2.4 BibliographicCoupling ............................... 12
1.2.5 Co-citation .......................................... 13
1.3 BibliometricAnalysisfortheTopic“Agricultur*andFood
4.0” ...................................................... 16
1.4 BibliometricAnalysisfortheTopic“Agricultur*andIndustry
4.0” ...................................................... 25
1.5 Conclusions ............................................... 38
References ..................................................... 47
2 Systematic Review of Agriculture and Era 4.0: The Most
RelevantInsights ............................................... 49
2.1 Introduction ............................................... 49
2.2 BibliometricAnalysis ....................................... 50
2.2.1 TextData,Co-occurrenceLinksandTermsasItems ....... 50
2.2.2 TheMostCitedDocuments ............................ 52
2.3 SystematicReview ......................................... 55
2.4 Conclusions ............................................... 56
References ..................................................... 61
3 TheEuropeanUnionContextonEra4.0andItsDimensions:
RelationshipswiththeAgriculturalSector ........................ 65
3.1 Introduction ............................................... 65
3.2 DataAnalysisfortheDigitalEconomyandSociety ............. 66
3.3 SpatialAutocorrelationAnalysis .............................. 67
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3.4 PanelDataRegressions ...................................... 72
3.5 Conclusions ............................................... 81
References ..................................................... 82
4 Benchmarking the European Union’s Digital Context
withThoseofOtherGlobalAgriculturalFrameworks ............. 85
4.1 Introduction ............................................... 85
4.2 DataAnalysis .............................................. 86
4.3 SpatialAutocorrelationAnalysis .............................. 87
4.4 ResultsforMatricesofCorrelation,Factor-ClusterAnalyses
andCross-SectionRegressions ............................... 92
4.5 Conclusions ............................................... 93
References ..................................................... 99
5 PotentialImpactsofEra4.0onAgriculturalSustainability ......... 103
5.1 Introduction ............................................... 103
5.2 DataAnalysis .............................................. 104
5.3 Results .................................................... 109
5.4 Conclusions ............................................... 110
References ..................................................... 116
About the Author
VítorJoãoPereiraDominguesMartinhoisCoordinatorProfessorwithHabilita-
tionatthePolytechnicInstituteofViseu,Portugal,andholdsaPh.D. inEconomics
fromtheUniversityofCoimbra,Portugal.HewasPresidentoftheScientificCouncil,
President of the Directive Council and President of the Agricultural Polytechnic
School of Viseu, Portugal, from 2006 to 2012. He was an Erasmus student in the
FacultyofEconomicsfromtheUniversityofVerona,Italy;hasparticipatedinvarious
technicalandscientificeventsnationallyandinternationally;haspublishedseveral
technicalandscientificpapers;isarefereeofsomescientificandtechnicaljournals
andparticipatesintheevaluationofnationalandinternationalprojects.
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