The edited volume Innovation and New Technologies in Agrifood Value Chains under Pressure, planned for publishing within the Springer Book series Economic Geography, is co-authored by Victoria Luxen and Peter Dannenberg, researchers in our sub-projects C01 “Future in Chains” and B06 “Digital Agrarian Futures”. The editors are seeking contributions for the book, which is primarily situated within Economic Geography and related debates on Global Value Chains (GVCs), Global Production Networks (GPNs), innovation, sustainability transitions, and socio-technical change.
The authors invite conceptual, empirical, and policy-oriented chapters with a focus on technological, digital, organizational, biological, or mechanical innovations, or on their intersections, addressing topics including but not limited to:
- Comparative and cross-regional perspectives on technological transformations
- Technological change and innovation in agrifood value chains and production networks
- Digital agriculture, artificial intelligence, robotics, automation, and platform economies
- Biological, nutritional, and processing innovations
- Technologies and sustainability, resilience and adaptation under conditions of multiple crises and in the light of risk perception
- Governance, regulation, and institutions shaping technological change
- Corporate strategies, lead firms and the role of technology providers
- Power relations, inclusion and exclusion, and uneven access to technologies
- Labor, skills, knowledge and changing working conditions in agrifood value chains
- Data, ownership, traceability, and transparency across value chains
- Regional development, territorial disparities, and innovation ecosystems
- Food security, nutrition, and public health implications of technological change
- The role of states, development agencies, NGOs, and international organizations
- Comparative and cross-regional perspectives on technological transformations
Please submit an abstract of approximately 300–500 words, including author affiliation(s) and contact details to sonja.zu-jeddeloh@uni-vechta.de
Deadline for the submission of abstracts is 15 October 2026.
