AgroTech: AI, Big Data, IoT

This book deals with the consistent elaboration of the research and practice basis for agricultural development based on Agrotech using groundbreaking technologies AI, big data and IoT. The authors have presented a new scientific view of agriculture in Agrotech. International experience in the formation and development of Agrotech has been reviewed and analyzed. Current problems in agriculture have been identified, and prospects for solving them with the use of Agrotech have been outlined. The authors have identified strategic development priorities of Agrotech and their advantages which include: first, the transition to extended reproduction in Agrotech for overcoming global hunger and ensuring food security, second, emergence of climate-resilient agriculture in Agrotech for the risk management in agribusiness, third, emergence of regenerative land use in Agrotech to improve the ecological efficiency of agriculture, fourth, creating high-performance jobs in Agrotech and ensuring the responsibility of agribusiness and fifth, development of autonomous agricultural production based on Agrotech to ensure food security in countries with adverse climate for agriculture. Applied recommendations for the development of Agrotech for agribusiness and state authorities managing the agricultural economy. Special chapter of the book deals with the elaboration of possible suggestions on legislative and normative aspects of AgroTech for developed and developing countries, making it possible to supplement recommendations for business with applied solutions and suggestions on State and legal regulation of AgroTech.

Elena G. Popkova, Doctor of Science (Economics), is the founder and president of the Institute of Scientific Communications (Russia) and leading researcher of the Center for Applied Research of the chair “Economic policy and public-private partnership” of Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University) (Moscow, Russia). Her scientific interests include the theory of economic growth, sustainable development, globalization, humanization of economic growth, emerging markets, social entrepreneurship and the digital economy and Industry 4.0. She organizes Russian and international scientific and practical conferences and is the editor and author of collective monographs and serves as a guest editor of international scientific journals. She has published more than 300 works in Russian and foreign peer-reviewed scientific journals and books.

Anastasia A. Sozinova, Professor (Economics), is Associate Professor, Deputy Director of the Institute of Economics and Management for Science at Vyatka State University, Kirov, Russia. Her research interests include economic growth, globalization, business reorganization, development planning and strategic development. She is the head of the research work of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation and Federal State Statistics Service. She has more than 150 publications in Russian and foreign journals and books.
She studied at Moscow School of Management Skolkovo and has the following international certificates: the Leadership Accelerator Academy, EFMD Global network, the accredited trainer of the Institute of Professional Financial Managers. She has been an accredited expert of the Federal register of experts of the technological sphere of the Federal Research Centre for Projects Evaluation and Consulting Services since 2015.