How to Assess Digitisation Impacts on the Food Industry: The Dutch Case of Microdata Collection for Firms’ Sustainability

Summary Digital innovations can increase resilience and sustainability of food businesses due to for instance increasing efficiency, reducing pollution or improving transparency about production conditions. However, much of the research on this topic has been done at the primary production level, i.e. on technology impacts on farms, or remains at an ex‐ante case study level when looking at digital technology impacts in downstream food businesses. Therefore, ex‐post impacts of digital technologies after their adoption are largely unknown. We here argue that this knowledge gap arises from the fa... Mehr ...