TY  - Type of reference 
TI  - Digitalization in the food system and transitions 
AU  - Delphine Gallaud 
AB  - The current food system is reaching its limits of economic, environmental and social sustainability. It has a high environmental impact, contributing to more than a third of global greenhouse gas emissions. It also has social consequences on the health of consumers, due to the over-consumption of processed products, which leads to an increase in global obesity, cardiovascular diseases and cancers. Like the entire economy, the food system is currently affected by the spread of digital techniques, i.e. robotization, the internet of things, connected objects, big data. The blockchain technique is also finding a favorable field of application because the food system has, since the 1980s, been part of global value chains. The issue of product traceability and the possibility of strengthening our ability to provide proof for claims, as part of the corporate social responsibility strategy of companies, favor its diffusion. These techniques are meant to bring about a new industrial revolution, allowing production systems to evolve into so-called 4.0 systems. Their promoters also attribute to them an ability to remedy the limits of sustainability, in particular environmental ones. The objective of this article is to analyze their diffusion in the food system and their effects. Are they really able to fix sustainability issues or, on the contrary, will they contribute to blocking the emergence of alternative trajectories, by reinforcing the trajectory of the current system and by creating socio-technical lock-in effects? 
DO  - 10.21494/ISTE.OP.2023.1005 
JF  - Technology and Innovation 
KW  - Digitalization, food system, transition, Numérisation, système alimentaire, transition,  
L1  - https://openscience.fr/IMG/pdf/iste_techinn23v8n4_1.pdf 
LA  - en 
PB  - ISTE OpenScience 
DA  - 2023/09/13 
SN  - 2399-8571 
TT  - Numérisation dans le système alimentaire et transitions 
UR  - https://openscience.fr/Digitalization-in-the-food-system-and-transitions 
IS  - Issue 4 
VL  - 8 
ER  -