Cloud Computing and the Internet of Things (IOT), which is the interconnection via the Internet of computing devices embedded in everyday objects, enabling them to send and receive data are hot discussions now in the trade of Indian based farming and hospitality industry. Cloud computing which is the practice of using a network of remote servers hosted on the Internet to store, manage, and proc...

Recently, the European Commission identified goal to achieve a double transition—ecological and digital—as one of greatest challenges on areas planet across various sectors society [...]

Multifunctional agriculture (MFA) has emerged as a key concept in science and politics with respect to the future of agriculture and rural development in the recent decade. Overall, MFA implies that in addition to their main function in production and support of rural livelihood, the agricultural activities have some other advantages for the environment including the conservation of water and s...

Agriculture is the backbone of India’s economy as two-third of the population live in rural areas and directly or indirectly depend on agriculture for their livelihood. India’s food production has improved significantly during the last three decades due to all-round efforts but Indian agriculture is still facing a multitude of problems to maximize productivity to feed the continuously increasin...

T his chapter guides development practitioners in fostering communication and learning to shape innovation systems for managing agriculture and natural resources across landscape systems and to jointly achieve sustainable production, ecosystem/biodiversity, and rural livelihood goals. This ecoagriculture landscape perspective accounts for the physical and biological features of an area together...

This title has been given to a three year project in which researchers from France, Spain, Latvia, Denmark and the Netherlands worked together to explore the role of farmers' networking and institutional strategies in the dissemination of sustainable agriculture. The general aim of the project was to analyse the barriers to the implementation of environmentally sound practices in European agric...