ICT-AGRI Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA) aims to describe the state of art of the information-, communication- and robotics technologies (i.e. drones, blockchain, GPS, Wi-Fi, precision farming, sensors, etc.) in the agriculture and food systems, as well as to define the actual and future challenges that restrain its use.
This SRIA aims to be the reference for research and innovation project priorities within the agri-food sector for the next 10 years to enable the use of new technologies for a competitive, sustainable and environmentally friendly agriculture.

In December 2012 the ERA-NET, ICT AGRI 1, published a Strategic Research Agenda concerning the global challenges in agriculture, with proposals for addressing those challenges, and a discussion of how ICT and robotics could contribute to their resolution or mitigation. The conclusion of this report defined the focus of calls for transnational European research projects in ICT and agriculture, both within the ICT-AGRI ERA-NET, as well as influencing other funders. In the 6 years since then, the use of new technologies in agriculture has grown immensely in significance and there is widespread expectation that we are on the cusp of a “digital revolution” in the agri-food sector, which is expected to revolutionise the primary sector, dissolve the boundaries between the agriculture and food systems, create new markets for data, etc. And for many of these new technologies and markets this will also require new global policies to be created. We are currently in the process of updating the SRIA with these new developments, and aim to have the final version ready for publication in October/November 2018.
In this updated SRIA, we review the main current and future challenges for sustainable agriculture (in Chapter 3) as well as the key goals. In addition, we describe the state of the ICT and robotics art and trends (Chapter 4) as well as the current and future challenges of ICT and robotics adoption in agri-food systems (Chapter 5).