Decarbonising our food systems: contextualising digitalisation for net zero

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems

Sustainable Food Systems

Roger Maull¹  Andrea Zisman²  Georgios Leontidis³  Aiden Durrant³  Steve Brewer⁴  Simon Pearson⁴  Louise Manning⁴  Charbel Jabbour⁵  Jeremy Frey⁶  Luc Bidaut⁷  George Onoufriou⁷  Gerard Parr⁸ 

[1] Business School, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom;Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom;Interdisciplinary Centre for Data and AI, School of Natural and Computing Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom;Lincoln Institute for Agri-Food Technology, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, United Kingdom;Lincoln International Business School, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, United Kingdom;School of Chemistry, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom;School of Computer Science, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, United Kingdom;School of Computing Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom;

关键词: digital systems;    trust framework;    data exchange;    governance;    net zero;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fsufs.2023.1094299

 received in 2022-11-09, accepted in 2023-04-12,  发布年份 2023

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

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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