TY - JOUR
T1 - Harnessing advances in agricultural technologies to optimize resource utilization in the food-energy-water nexus
AU - Miao, Ruiqing
AU - Khanna, Madhu
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors thank Ali Dawood for his excellent research assistance and Julie Whitten and Donna Dimitrova for their assistance in graphic design. Comments and suggestions from an anonymous reviewer and from the ARRE Co-Editors Gordon Rausser and David Zilberman are sincerely appreciated. The authors acknowledge the financial support from Hatch Funding from the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) of the US Department of Agriculture (USDA). Miao also acknowledges partial support for this research from the US National Science Foundation (award number 1903722).
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PY - 2020/10/6
Y1 - 2020/10/6
N2 - The food-energy-water (FEW) nexus is facing grand challenges in meeting increasing demand resulting from global changes in climate, economy, and population. Emerging technologies are expected to play a critical role in responding to these challenges. Focusing on four types of prominent emerging technologies (namely precision agriculture coupled with big data and machine learning, gene editing, second-generation biofuels, and agrivoltaics), this article reviews existing studies regarding opportunities and challenges of these emerging technologies to address issues of the FEW nexus. Drivers of innovation and adoption of these emerging technologies as well as the role of public policies that interact with these drivers are reviewed. Finally, this review also discusses research gaps that need to be filled to harness the potential benefits of these emerging technologies.
AB - The food-energy-water (FEW) nexus is facing grand challenges in meeting increasing demand resulting from global changes in climate, economy, and population. Emerging technologies are expected to play a critical role in responding to these challenges. Focusing on four types of prominent emerging technologies (namely precision agriculture coupled with big data and machine learning, gene editing, second-generation biofuels, and agrivoltaics), this article reviews existing studies regarding opportunities and challenges of these emerging technologies to address issues of the FEW nexus. Drivers of innovation and adoption of these emerging technologies as well as the role of public policies that interact with these drivers are reviewed. Finally, this review also discusses research gaps that need to be filled to harness the potential benefits of these emerging technologies.
KW - Agricultural technologies
KW - Agrivoltaics
KW - Food-energy-water nexus
KW - Gene editing
KW - Precision agriculture
KW - Second-generation biofuels
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U2 - 10.1146/annurev-resource-110319-115428
DO - 10.1146/annurev-resource-110319-115428
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85092550373
SN - 1941-1340
VL - 12
SP - 65
EP - 85
JO - Annual Review of Resource Economics
JF - Annual Review of Resource Economics
ER -