Introduction

Industrial and technological developments have led to significant ecological degradation and the emergence of new world challenges, such as global warming, ozone depletion, deforestation, and desertification, among others. The usage of the earth’s resources is central to agriculture and justifies the recent attention on new agribusiness practices in the search for resource optimization and new agribusiness management approaches, such as the circular economy and sustainable development. Many firms have deployed or adopted technological solutions to address the ecological issues they face, with the aim of producing and selling more goods to more people with less energy and fewer resources and waste.