Unlocking challenges and opportunities presented by COVID-19 pandemic for cross-cutting disruption in agri-food and green deal innovations : Quo Vadis?

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COVID-19 pandemic is on a trajectory to cause catastrophic global upheaval with the potential to alter geopolitical and socio-economic norms. Many countries are frantically responding with staggering financial stimulus recovery initiatives. This opinion-paper reviews challenges, opportunities, and potential solutions for the post-COVID-19 era that focuses on intensive sustaining of agri-food supply chain in tandem with meeting the high demand for new green deal innovation. For example, the development of wet peatland innovation, known as Paludiculture, can intensively sustain and blend agri-food and green innovations that will help support COVID-19 pandemic transitioning. The future looks bright for the creation of new sustainability multi-actor innovation hubs that will support, connect, and enable businesses to recover and pivot beyond the COVID-19 pandemic. The nexus between first 'Green Deal' initiative supporting 64 selected European Startups and SMEs (European Innovation Council) and 43 Irish Disruptive Technology projects are addressed in the context of cross-cutting developments and relevance to COVID-19. Candidate areas for future consideration will focus on climate action, digitization, manufacturing, and sustainable food production, security, and waste mitigation. Recommendations are also provided to facilitate community transitioning, training, enterprise, and employment to low carbon economy.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:748

Enthalten in:

The Science of the total environment - 748(2020) vom: 15. Dez., Seite 141362

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Rowan, Neil J [VerfasserIn]
Galanakis, Charis M [VerfasserIn]

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Volltext

Themen:

Agri-food
COVID-19
Climate change
Disruptive technologies
Green innovation
Journal Article
Review
Sustainability

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Date Completed 28.10.2020

Date Revised 04.03.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.141362

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM313969426