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Digital Transformation of China's Agriculture - Ressources, Trade and Food Security

The need for high-quality, healthy and varied nutrition is increasing worldwide. For some years now, it has been hoped that digitization strategies will help to make domestic production and grocery chains more sustainable, more crisis-proof and more resource-efficient.

The central aim of the DITAC project is the analysis and evaluation of digitization processes in the Chinese agriculture and food industry with regard to their effects on production, resource use and trade. Based on a systematic recording of the status quo of digital agriculture in China, econometric and behavioral analyzes of the adaptation and implementation of selected technologies as well as an empirical estimate of the economic and ecological consequences are carried out. The knowledge gained should serve as a basis for a discussion of future development paths and impact assessment of digital transformation processes from a global perspective. At the same time, they provide important information regarding the effects on international trade relations.

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14 August 2024

The work of our project DITAC has been presented at the 32nd International Conference of Agricultural Economists (ICAE), New Delhi, India. The triennial International Conference is the largest and most influential conference in the field, with more…

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20 June 2024

Initiated by DITAC members, the Journal of Integrative Agriculture (JIA) issued a Call for Papers for a Special Issue on Digitalization of Smallholder Agriculture. JIA, sponsored by the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS) and the Chinese…

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18 September 2023

The DITAC project team has accomplished a fruitful two-week field mission in Hubei, China, from August 5th to August 18th, 2023. Together with Chinese partner, Huazhong Agricultural University (HZAU), and local enumerators, IAMO researchers, Hua…

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