A transdisciplinary view of an agrifood value chain to improve agricultural producers quality of life through digital transformation Chapter in Scopus uri icon

abstract

  • Value added differences among downstream links on an agrifood value chain vary dramatically. Most agricultural producers in Latin America (and the world) live in undeveloped countries with poor quality of life. This low income prevents them from upgrading their position on the value chain. Thus, their economic conditions, quality of life, health, and education suffer. Digital transformation has been driven as a solution for those lags, to help producers acquire specific knowledge, skills and tools to improve collective work, information transparency, and social capital, leading to enhanced product value and reducing information asymmetry. But more than 80% of digital transformation projects end in fail, what means that is a complex task and transdisciplinary participation is required. Then, the contribution of this paper is the design of a global open agrifood online platform to reduce information asymmetry in producers, to improve producer (and other value chain links) education, skills, and availability of tools to allow societal, environmental and economic (sustainability) development of producer communities. © 2025 The Authors.

publication date

  • October 14, 2025