Laurens Klerkx
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About
Laurens Klerkx is a leading agricultural innovation scholar whose research sits at the intersection of digital transformation, food systems governance, and emerging technologies in agriculture. Best known for his highly influential 2019 review of social science perspectives on digital agriculture, smart farming, and Agriculture 4.0 — now cited over 1,150 times — Klerkx has fundamentally shaped how researchers understand the human, organizational, and societal dimensions of agricultural digitalization. His work critically examines transformative technologies including artificial intelligence, robotics, blockchain, gene editing, and nanotechnology, exploring how these innovations reshape food system pathways and raise complex questions of diversity, ethics, and responsibility, as reflected in his companion 2019 paper with over 625 citations. Klerkx has also made significant contributions to understanding vertical farming's scalability challenges (505 citations) and has turned his attention to the growing role of AgriFoodTech start-ups as drivers of food system transformation. His more recent work probes philosophical questions about autonomy and expertise, asking whether robots can meaningfully replace skilled human judgment in agricultural contexts. Collectively, Klerkx's scholarship provides an indispensable social science lens on one of the most consequential technological transitions facing global food systems today.
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