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Atlanta’s
food and agriculture industry,
in focus.
The companies, capital and talent shaping food and agriculture in Atlanta. Find the leaders. Understand the segments. See where the activity is.

An industry ecosystem,
measured in context.
MEET THE COMPANIESExplore Atlanta’s food and agriculture leaders
24 featured companies from the funding, hiring, revenue and team-size leaderboards.
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Explore Atlanta’s food and agriculture leaders
24 featured companies from the funding, hiring, revenue and team-size leaderboards.
Company discovery
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No company example met every recorded classification, independence and public-profile gate in this snapshot. The live directory may have newer qualifying companies.
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A few useful ratios bring the size of this ecosystem into perspective.
36 of 274 tracked companies have open roles.
26 of 274 tracked companies have a recorded round.
Share of disclosed capital received by the three largest recorded recipients.
Midpoint of 24 rounds with a disclosed amount.
Scale is concentrated. Opportunity is broader. The three largest funding recipients hold 91.2% of disclosed capital, while 90.5% of tracked companies have no recorded funding round.
Explore the segments →CAPITAL & COMPANY FORMATIONHow Atlanta food and agriculture has grown
Recorded company formation and disclosed funding across the complete annual series shown.
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How Atlanta food and agriculture has grown
Recorded company formation and disclosed funding across the complete annual series shown.
Disclosed funding by year
Sum of recorded funding rounds · USD
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| Year | Funding (USD) | Founded | Raising |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | $201.5M | 12 | 1 |
| 2017 | $28.52M | 12 | 3 |
| 2018 | $605.69M | 13 | 4 |
| 2019 | $1.75B | 10 | 2 |
| 2020 | $303K | 6 | 3 |
| 2021 | $40K | 5 | 1 |
| 2022 | $31.48M | 3 | 6 |
| 2023 | $0 | 3 | 0 |
| 2024 | $5.02M | 3 | 2 |
| 2025 | $4.82M | 0 | 1 |
Funding concentration
Share of all disclosed company funding.
- WestRock67.5%
- GPS Hospitality12.1%
- GoTo Foods11.6%
- Other companies8.8%
Funding by stage
28 recorded rounds since 2016
Investors appearing most often
Recorded participation in food and agriculture company rounds since 2016.
- 01Overline 2 rounds
- 02United States Department of Agriculture 2 rounds
- 03Full Course 2 rounds
- 04Techstars 1 rounds
- 05New Voices Fund 1 rounds
- 06Enlightened Hospitality Investments 1 rounds
- 07Shea Moisture 1 rounds
- 08Pronghorn 1 rounds
- 09Asahi Group Holdings 1 rounds
- 010NewStar Financial 1 rounds
Recent recorded rounds
Latest recorded rounds · USDLargest and notable recorded rounds
Each card is one recorded roundBacked by New Voices Fund and Enlightened Hospitality Investments and others.
Backed by Asahi Group Holdings and Springdale Ventures and others.
Participating investors were not recorded in this snapshot.
Backed by Overline.
Participating investors were not recorded in this snapshot.
Participating investors were not recorded in this snapshot.
Participating investors were not recorded in this snapshot.
Participating investors were not recorded in this snapshot.
Participating investors were not recorded in this snapshot.
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THE BUSINESS BEHIND THE ACTIVITYRevenue, profitability & financial strength
Annual accounts for reporting companies linked to this landscape, on like-for-like currency and reporting bases.
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Revenue, profitability & financial strength
Annual accounts for reporting companies linked to this landscape, on like-for-like currency and reporting bases.
Display conversions use the dated reference rates above. Where a verified rate is unavailable, figures retain their source currency. Each reporting cohort keeps its currency and accounting basis separate.
FY2016 · company accounts; aggregate reporting threshold not met · 1 reporting entities from 3 eligible matches.
Sum of reporting-entity revenue; not Atlanta market sales.
Combined result for the same cohort.
Combined net income ÷ combined revenue.
The middle covered reporting entity.
None of 1 covered entities.
Share of covered revenue from the five largest entities.
Annual account trend
Reported cohort totals by year; coverage is stated for every period.
Bar height shows revenue. Changes in coverage can affect totals.
Profitability has two perspectives
FY2016 · 1 reporting entities
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| Company / reporting entity | Revenue | Net profit / loss | Net margin | Revenue growth | Total assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Popeyes ↗1041379 | $268.9m | $42.8m | +15.9% | — | — |
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Coverage, calculations & financial sources
Filed annual accounts for exact designated national identifiers. Every aggregate and peer pair uses one fiscal year, source currency and reporting basis; periods, coverage and overlap are explicit; 2026 partials are excluded.
The same up to eight reporting entities remain open across years, filters and sorts. Other company figures are available in Radar.
Source currencies and accounting bases stay separate. Missing accounts are excluded rather than treated as zero. Exact reporting periods appear on company previews. Annual totals can change with coverage and do not measure growth of a fixed company cohort.
Web traffic, app reach and release cadence
How the Atlanta companies on this page show up online: the sites people visit, the apps they install, and how often those apps ship.
Busiest websites
12 of the 274 companies on this page carry a measured traffic record (4.4%); these are the largest of those, by monthly visits. The median among them is 468,147 visits.
| Company | Monthly visits | Authority | Mobile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coca-Colacoca-cola.com | 33,519,692 | 75 | 85.5% |
| Chick-fil-Achick-fil-a.com | 15,550,363 | 82 | 90.4% |
| Arby\'sarbys.com | 7,694,270 | 71 | 93.8% |
| Popeyespopeyes.com | 5,904,648 | 74 | 90.4% |
| The Coca-Colacoca-colacompany.com | 893,228 | 57 | 52.4% |
| RaceTracracetrac.com | 559,397 | 46 | 83.4% |
| Schlotzskysschlotzskys.com | 376,898 | 51 | 87.4% |
| STK Steakhousestksteakhouse.com | 325,938 | 53 | 78.7% |
| American Deliamericandeli.com | 251,607 | 40 | 94.5% |
| Huddle Househuddlehouse.com | 245,437 | 43 | 96.1% |
Visits and authority are third-party web estimates, not company-reported figures.
Most-installed apps
27 of these companies (9.9%) publish at least one Android app — 32 apps in all, carrying 72.3M installs between them.
| App | Installs | Rating | Store category |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chick-fil-A®Chick-fil-A | 26.8M | 4.5 | Food & Drink |
| Coca-Cola: Play & Win PrizesCoca-Cola | 16.1M | 4 | Lifestyle |
| Popeyes®Popeyes | 10.5M | 4.9 | Food & Drink |
| Arby\'s Fast Food SandwichesArby\'s | 6.6M | 4.6 | Food & Drink |
| Tropical Smoothie CafeTropical Smoothie Cafe | 3.1M | 4.1 | Food & Drink |
| McAlister\'s DeliMcAlister\'s Deli | 2M | 4.7 | Lifestyle |
| Church\'s Texas Chicken®Church\'s Chicken | 1.9M | 4.8 | Food & Drink |
| RaceTracRaceTrac | 1.7M | 4.8 | Shopping |
| Checkers & Rally\'s RewardsCheckers Drive-In | 1.3M | 4.7 | Food & Drink |
| +one by The Coca-Cola Company®Coca-Cola | 890.8K | 2.6 | Entertainment |
Installs are lifetime totals to date at the June 2026 store reading — a measure of reach, not of people using an app today.
App reach by segment
The busiest app inside each of this page’s own segments, with the quarterly release trend behind it (2023Q3–2025Q3).
| Segment | Apps | Installs | Leading app | Release trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Food & Beverage Products | 5 | 17.1M | Coca-Cola: Play & Win Prizes 16.1M | |
| Restaurants | 2 | 7.1K | Hoots Wings Rewards & Ordering 6.1K | |
| Food Packaging | 2 | 1.2K | WestRock - Phoenix 1.1K | |
| Food Distributors | 2 | 1K | UniPro Conferences 984 |
A company can carry several segment tags, so these rows overlap and should not be added together. Trend lines are zero-based and share one quarter grid, so a flat line is a quiet segment, not a missing one.
Release cadence by quarter
New apps published, beside apps whose most recent update landed in that quarter — the second bar is how much of the shelf is still being maintained.
Darker bars are new releases, lighter bars apps updated. 30 of 32 apps carry a release date. The series ends at 2026Q1, the last quarter that closed before the June 2026 reading.
INSIDE THE INDUSTRYThe Atlanta food and agriculture market map
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The Atlanta food and agriculture market map
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Where companies are building
Rank segments by scale, hiring or disclosed funding.
Companies can sit in several segments. Counts and funding overlap.
Segment data unavailable
The largest measured segment in this report snapshot.
0 companies hiring · $0 disclosed funding
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Common revenue models; a company can use more than one.
THE COMPANIES IN MOTIONWho is listing, hiring leaders, launching and winning work
Recorded corporate activity linked to companies in this landscape.
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Who is listing, hiring leaders, launching and winning work
Recorded corporate activity linked to companies in this landscape.
Recent corporate headlines 9 dated reports
Private equity firm Roark Capital is reportedly evaluating an initial public offering (IPO) for Inspire Brands, the parent company of Dunkin’, according to a Bloomberg News report published Thursday.
the bottling arm of The Coca-Cola Company purchased premium mixer brand Three Cents in 2022.
U.S. soft drinks company Coca-Cola’s proposed sale of Costa Coffee is at risk of collapsing, with the company holding last-ditch talks this weekend with private equity firm TDR Capital in an effort to salvage the deal, the Financial Times reported on Saturday, citing people familiar with the matter.
That deal followed the January sale of Grand Rapids-based Sparks Belting Co., a fabricator and distributor of process conveyor belting systems, conveyor accessories and power transmission products, to Belt Power LLC, a portfolio company of Denver, Colo.-based private equity firm Platte River Equity.
today announced that the Company has secured the exclusive Master Franchise rights for Wing Zone
in 2021, the Firm advised the seller on the sale of its shares in the Coca-Cola bottler company to Anadolu for USD 252.2 million.
Potbelly was just acquired by c-store operator RaceTrac
Now it has secured £43million from Barclays Corporate Banking to help it open more restaurants.
Hooters Inc. and Hoot Owl Restaurants, two of the largest Hooters franchisees, have agreed in principle to acquire more than 100 company‑owned restaurants from Hooters of America.
Full recorded event mix
Top 10 categories among 958 recorded events in the 24-month window.
IPO pipeline
3 companies with recorded IPO activity
Leadership moves
64 tracked people moves
Appointment Director – Marketing, Digital Commerce
Appointment Executive Vice President, Global Chief People Officer
Appointment Executive Vice President
Appointment Chief Executive Officer
Appointment Director of Diet Coke breaks
Resignation Previously Chief Executive Officer
Appointment Chief Digital Officer
Appointment Chief Development Officer
Product launches
Products, platforms and features in the recorded window
Mini-cans
Soft drink
Soft drink
Sparkling strawberry flavored caffeinated beverage
Platform
Packaging
Beverage, Soft Drink
Concept Store
Contract wins
25 recorded customer wins
Customer: marriott internationalHospitality
Customer: marriott internationalHospitality
Customer: State of MaharashtraWaste Management & Recycling
Customer: Haldiram GroupQSR franchise
Customer: The Coca‑Cola CompanyFood and Beverage
Customer:
Workforce actions
5 companies with reported reductions
75 rolesAI restructuring
6 rolesshifting consumer preferences
75 rolescost reduction
Scale not stated roles
Scale not stated roles
Regulatory events
18 recorded events
modified labeling practicesSwedish Consumer Agency and the Hungarian Competition Authority (GVH)
pending approval
subject to regulatory approval
Eatontown
Litigation
23 tracked suits
Public nuisance and unfair competition law violation related to ultra-processed foodsCivil · Filed
Marketing fund mismanagement disputeCivil · Ongoing
Earnings pulse
Reported company results in the recorded window.
Median across 139 reported growth observations; companies may contribute multiple periods.
Mergers and acquisitions
Company-linked deal reports; status is preserved as recorded.
| Acquirer → target | Status | Date | Value / context |
|---|---|---|---|
| Smurfit Kappa Group→WestRock ↗ | Announced | 2026-06-13 | Not stated in snapshot |
| tilray→SweetWater Brewery ↗ | 2026-03-13 | $300.0M | |
| RaceTrac→potbelly | 2026-02-17 | Not stated in snapshot | |
| The Coca-Cola→three cents | Completed | 2026-02-04 | Not stated in snapshot |
| Coca-Cola→Costa Coffee ↗ | Terminated | 2026-01-19 | Not stated in snapshot |
| Na→Costa Coffee ↗ | Rumored | 2026-01-02 | Not stated in snapshot |
A discussion or rumour is not a completed transaction. An unstated value is not zero.
PEOPLE & OPPORTUNITYThe talent market
8,206 postings in the preceding 12 months. The full 13,767-posting snapshot covers 61 employers.
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The talent market
8,206 postings in the preceding 12 months. The full 13,767-posting snapshot covers 61 employers.
Most advertised job titles
17 tracked postings mention remote work.
The seniority mix
6,631 postings specify a level.
Skills employers mention
Top skills across 13,767 tracked postings in the available jobs snapshot.
Median across 1,169 postings with pay data, expressed in USD.
Salary by seniority
Advertised posting medians do not describe all employees or roles.
Companies hiring
| Company | Open roles |
|---|---|
| Round Table Pizza ↗ | 10 |
| McAlister\'s Deli ↗ | 10 |
| WestRock ↗ | 10 |
| tosca services ↗ | 10 |
| Arby\'s ↗ | 10 |
| Popeyes ↗ | 10 |
| inspire brands ↗ | 9 |
| jackmont hospitality ↗ | 8 |
Large employers
| Company | Employees |
|---|---|
| inspire brands ↗ | 650,000 |
| The Coca-Cola ↗ | 82,500 |
| rmh franchise corporation ↗ | 7,000 |
| GPS Hospitality ↗ | 4,358 |
| RaceTrac ↗ | 4,313 |
| moe\'s southwest grill ↗ | 2,913 |
| Flying Food Group ↗ | 2,360 |
| huber engineered materials ↗ | 1,001 |
THE PEOPLE BUILDING THE FIELDFounders and leaders
55 founders and chief executives across 49 companies.
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Founders and leaders
55 founders and chief executives across 49 companies.
David Sewell
WestRock ↗Ex-Sherwin-Williams, GE Plastics. University of Southern California 1990
Tom Garrett
GPS Hospitality ↗Ex- CEO Arby's Restaurant Group, Triarc Companies, President RTM Restaurant Group
Jim Holthouser
GoTo Foods ↗Ex-Hilton. University of Louisville BA 1982, MA 1985, Thunderbird School of Global Management MBA 1986
Elton Potts
Vine Vault ↗Potts Performance Enhancement, Recall, CHEP, Levolor, Owens Corning. Clemson University 1986, Capital University 1996
Steven Chan
Tin Drum Asian Kitchen ↗Founder MetaDesign. Georgia Institute of Technology
Charles Watson
Tropical Smoothie Cafe ↗Tropical Smoothie Cafe, ex-HREC Investment Advisors, Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, IHG Hotels & Resorts, US Franchise Systems. Cornell University BS 1999…
Nick Carse
King of Pops ↗Ex-Gwinnett County Government, Central Parking System, AIG Agency Auto, Field Marketing. Terry College of Business BBA 2002, Tsinghua University 2006…
Leah Robilotto
Food Allergy Institute ↗Ex-Food Allergy Research & Education, Star Compliance, ExxonMobil, Advent, National Oilwell Varco, Stracka Golf Network, Montgomery County Food Bank…
Mark Anderson
The Last Straw ↗Founder&CEO Precision Management Advisors, Co-Founder Monte Leon Mexican Grill, Qualtrics. Brigham Young University BS 2014.
Bob Powers
New Realm Brewing ↗President PMG, ex-Constellation Brands, VP Neovia, AmeriCold, Director Constellation Wines US. Saint Louis University BS
Elias Diaz Sese
Popeyes ↗Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen, ex-Dominos Pizza, ex-The Kraft Heinz, Chicago Booth Executive Education, 2005
Terrance Marks
Hooters ↗Ex-CEO The Pantry, Coca-Cola Enterprises, Minolta Corporation. University of Southern California BA 1983
Education networks
3 profiles with education records.
Prior employers
0 profiles with prior-work records.
Profiles cover recorded founders and leaders; contact details remain in Radar.
NEWS INTELLIGENCEHow this industry appears in the news
8,277 articles in the measured 12-month window.
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How this industry appears in the news
8,277 articles in the measured 12-month window.
News volume trends
Food and Agriculture coverage tagged Atlanta · articles per complete quarter
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| Quarter | Articles |
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| 2021Q2 | 2,342 |
| 2021Q3 | 1,670 |
| 2021Q4 | 1,708 |
| 2022Q1 | 1,761 |
| 2022Q2 | 1,839 |
| 2022Q3 | 1,580 |
| 2022Q4 | 1,580 |
| 2023Q1 | 1,551 |
| 2023Q2 | 1,725 |
| 2023Q3 | 1,714 |
| 2023Q4 | 1,716 |
| 2024Q1 | 5,045 |
| 2024Q2 | 2,047 |
| 2024Q3 | 2,463 |
| 2024Q4 | 2,106 |
| 2025Q1 | 4,681 |
| 2025Q2 | 2,049 |
| 2025Q3 | 3,094 |
| 2025Q4 | 1,488 |
| 2026Q1 | 1,714 |
Article volume measures coverage, not market sales.
Tone of coverage over time
Most-covered companies
Company share of voice
1,643 recorded company events across 31 companies; percentages use that event total.
Leading coverage topics
Food and Agriculture coverage tagged Atlanta · ranked by full-period article count.
Recent and prior counts use the source comparison windows.
Topics gaining and losing attention
United States comparison coverage
| Keyword | Recent | Prior | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| shrimp aquaculture | 1,469 | 980 | 50% |
| land-frozen seafood | 1,378 | 790 | 74% |
| shrimp harvest | 1,132 | 643 | 76% |
| shrimp | 1,126 | 686 | 64% |
| college playoffs | 1,029 | 666 | 55% |
| ceo change | 1,029 | 690 | 49% |
| crab availability | 963 | 648 | 49% |
| fresh shellfish | 908 | 583 | 56% |
| tuna steak | 902 | 539 | 67% |
| flash-frozen seafood | 894 | 483 | 85% |
| f1 world championship | 1,972 | 3,224 | -39% |
| f1 championship | 1,863 | 2,930 | -36% |
| poultry health | 804 | 2,053 | -61% |
| wildlife disease monitoring | 377 | 1,952 | -81% |
| h5n1 avian influenza | 356 | 1,818 | -80% |
Event and signal lenses
United States comparison coverage
Regulatory Risk
418,778 classified articlesfood rescue donations, meal distribution funding, emergency food aid
34.1% critical · 38.3% positiveFunding Momentum
135,040 classified articlesfood rescue donations, meal distribution funding, hunger assistance programs
31.3% critical · 47.8% positiveGrowth
163,836 classified articleswhole-farm revenue policies, earnings report, stock performance
22.1% critical · 48.5% positiveFood and Agriculture coverage tagged Atlanta. Topic labels describe recorded classifications and can include broad context.
RESEARCH SIGNALSWhat Food and Agriculture research is working on
652 papers in the recorded india scope.
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What Food and Agriculture research is working on
652 papers in the recorded india scope.
Research orientation
Contribution mix
Tone counts: 584 positive · 34 neutral · 34 negative.
- Agriculture119 papers
- Food security32 papers
- Climate change21 papers
- Robotics11 papers
- Productivity10 papers
- Sustainability8 papers
- Internet of Things8 papers
- Livelihood8 papers
Landmark: Climate-smart agriculture: what is it good for?
- Agriculture26 papers
- Climate change8 papers
- Natural resource economics5 papers
- Weed5 papers
- Food security5 papers
- Tillage4 papers
- Productivity4 papers
- Psychological intervention3 papers
Landmark: An Assessment of Experimental Evidence on Agricultural Technology Adoption in Developing Countries
- Agriculture198 papers
- Robot44 papers
- Internet of Things31 papers
- Precision agriculture27 papers
- Climate change21 papers
- Productivity16 papers
- Cloud computing14 papers
- Agroforestry14 papers
Landmark: Responses of soil carbon sequestration to climate‐smart agriculture practices: A meta‐analysis
Leading institutions
Leading researchers
Highly cited breakthrough-labelled papers
- The Robotanist: A ground-based agricultural robot for high-throughput crop phenotyping151 citations
- Self-Powered Sensing for Smart Agriculture by Electromagnetic–Triboelectric Hybrid Generator141 citations
- sCrop: A Novel Device for Sustainable Automatic Disease Prediction, Crop Selection, and Irrigation in Internet-of-Agro-Things for Smart Agriculture130 citations
- Blockchain-Based Cloud-Enabled Security Monitoring Using Internet of Things in Smart Agriculture111 citations
- Renewable Energy Integration Into Cloud & IoT-Based Smart Agriculture110 citations
Common problems researchers identify
125 papers · 4 recurring themes
Common problems researchers identify · 01Climate‑Smart Agriculture Challenges
43 papers34.4% of this theme group
Researchers highlight climate impacts, policy gaps, and food‑security risks in Indian agriculture.
Climate change (20) · Agriculture (43) · Food security (17) · Government (6)
Climate-smart agriculture global research agenda: scientific basis for action
Economics of Climate Smart Agriculture: An Overview
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| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 2087.7 |
| 2023 | 2154.4 |
| 2024 | 2121.1 |
| 2025 | 2354.5 |
Common problems researchers identify · 02Robotics and IoT Integration Issues
37 papers29.6% of this theme group
Papers point to technical and adoption barriers for robots and connected devices on farms.
Robotics (10) · Agriculture (32) · Robot (6) · Internet of Things (6)
Computer vision in smart agriculture and precision farming: Techniques and applications
Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) for smart agriculture: A review of architectures, technologies and solutions
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| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 1344.5 |
| 2023 | 1371.8 |
| 2024 | 1420.2 |
| 2025 | 1404.4 |
Common problems researchers identify · 03Economic Constraints on Farm Technology
29 papers23.2% of this theme group
Studies discuss how growth, market forces, and public policy limit agricultural innovation.
Agriculture (27) · Economic growth (3) · Agricultural economics (4) · Public economics (2)
Agricultural Technology in Africa
Agricultural Technology Choice and Transport
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| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 819.3 |
| 2023 | 801.0 |
| 2024 | 650.4 |
| 2025 | 375.5 |
Common problems researchers identify · 04Nutrient Management and Yield Gaps
16 papers12.8% of this theme group
Research examines on‑farm practices affecting nutrient use efficiency and dairy productivity.
Agricultural science (4) · Nutrient management (2) · Nutrient (2) · Agronomy (2)
Meta-analysis of the effects of on-farm management strategies on milk yields of dairy cattle on smallholder farms in the Tropics
An overview of organic, grassfed dairy farm management and factors related to higher milk production
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| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 389.6 |
| 2023 | 372.3 |
| 2024 | 270.2 |
| 2025 | 197.4 |
Cautions
44 papers · 4 recurring themes
Cautions · 01Sustainability Trade‑offs of Climate‑Smart Practices
16 papers36.4% of this theme group
Authors caution that some climate‑smart strategies may increase greenhouse‑gas emissions or undermine sustainability.
Climate change (8) · Agriculture (13) · Sustainability (3) · Greenhouse gas (3)
A Short History of the Evolution of the Climate Smart Agriculture Approach and Its Links to Climate Change and Sustainable Agriculture Debat
Climate smart agriculture and global food-crop production
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| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 2330.1 |
| 2023 | 2430.6 |
| 2024 | 2427.5 |
| 2025 | 2687.8 |
Cautions · 02Adoption Uncertainty in Developing Contexts
14 papers31.8% of this theme group
Evidence shows mixed results and risks when scaling new agricultural technologies in low‑resource settings.
Agriculture (11) · Agricultural economics (4) · Diversification (2) · Developing country (2)
An Assessment of Experimental Evidence on Agricultural Technology Adoption in Developing Countries
The Role of Information in Agricultural Technology Adoption: Experimental Evidence from Rice Farmers in Uganda
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| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 392.7 |
| 2023 | 376.2 |
| 2024 | 353.1 |
| 2025 | 221.7 |
Cautions · 03Health and Safety Risks of Farm Management
8 papers18.2% of this theme group
Studies flag animal health, zoonotic disease, and worker safety concerns linked to certain practices.
Relationship between farm management strategies, reticuloruminal pH variations, and risks of subacute ruminal acidosis
Farm management practices associated with influenza A virus contamination of people working in Midwestern United States swine farms
Cautions · 04Ecological Limits to Intensification
6 papers13.6% of this theme group
Research warns that intensified farming can threaten soil microbes and broader ecosystem resilience.
Ecology (2) · Food security (2) · Agriculture (3)
Who is resilient in Africa’s Green Revolution? Sustainable intensification and Climate Smart Agriculture in Rwanda
Farm management, not soil microbial diversity, controls nutrient loss from smallholder tropical agriculture
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| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 1722.6 |
| 2023 | 1724.9 |
| 2024 | 1524.1 |
| 2025 | 1119.1 |
Opportunities
312 papers · 6 recurring themes
Opportunities · 01Precision Farming and Edge Computing
95 papers30.4% of this theme group
Opportunities focus on low‑power AI and sensor systems for real‑time crop monitoring.
Agriculture (53) · Precision agriculture (16) · Intrusion detection system (5) · Archaeology (5)
Smart Agriculture Revolution: Edge AI for Precision Farming on Low-Power Embedded Systems
Smart Agriculture System for Soil Analysis and Crop Suggestion using AI Techniques
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| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 369.9 |
| 2023 | 372.1 |
| 2024 | 472.5 |
| 2025 | 393.8 |
Opportunities · 02Climate‑Adapted Agroforestry and Tillage
55 papers17.6% of this theme group
Papers explore agroforestry and conservation tillage as pathways to mitigate climate impacts.
Climate change (18) · Agriculture (46) · Agroforestry (13) · Tillage (7)
Adapting agriculture to climate change: institutional determinants of adoption of climate-smart agriculture among smallholder farmers in Ken
Climate-smart agriculture: Greenhouse gas mitigation in climate-smart villages of Ghana
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| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 2223.0 |
| 2023 | 2259.9 |
| 2024 | 2327.9 |
| 2025 | 2386.7 |
Opportunities · 03Autonomous Agricultural Robots
55 papers17.6% of this theme group
Research highlights advances in robot navigation, obstacle detection, and multipurpose field tasks.
Robot (36) · Mobile robot (7) · Robotics (8) · Agriculture (25)
Vision‐based Obstacle Detection and Navigation for an Agricultural Robot
Smart Multipurpose Agricultural Robot
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| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 827.0 |
| 2023 | 847.9 |
| 2024 | 840.1 |
| 2025 | 849.0 |
Opportunities · 04IoT‑Enabled Cloud Analytics for Farms
51 papers16.3% of this theme group
Studies present cloud‑based platforms and machine‑learning models for scalable farm monitoring.
Internet of Things (27) · Agriculture (35) · Cloud computing (10) · Wireless (6)
Smart Agriculture Based on IoT and Cloud Computing
Internet of Things (IoT)-Enabled Machine Learning Models for Efficient Monitoring of Smart Agriculture
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| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 1136.6 |
| 2023 | 1111.1 |
| 2024 | 1090.0 |
| 2025 | 1158.5 |
Opportunities · 05Economic Gains from Technology Adoption
29 papers9.3% of this theme group
Evidence shows poverty reduction and welfare improvements when farmers access modern equipment.
Agricultural economics (8) · Agriculture (23) · Welfare (3) · Agricultural machinery (3)
Poverty Reduction Effects of Agricultural Technology Adoption: A Micro-evidence from Rural Tanzania
Subsidies for Agricultural Technology Adoption: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment with Improved Grain Storage Bags in Uganda
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| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 399.5 |
| 2023 | 382.4 |
| 2024 | 359.2 |
| 2025 | 243.2 |
Opportunities · 06Biosecurity and Pollinator Management
27 papers8.7% of this theme group
Research identifies data‑driven strategies to reduce pathogen spread and support pollinator health.
Herd (3) · Flock (3) · Biosecurity (3) · Pollinator (3)
Farm Management, Environment, and Weather Factors Jointly Affect the Probability of Spinach Contamination by Generic Escherichia coli at the
Using farm management practices to predict Campylobacter prevalence in pastured poultry farms
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| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 18.3 |
| 2023 | 18.0 |
| 2024 | 12.9 |
| 2025 | 14.8 |
How this field compares with the research baseline
Orientation shares compared with 25,000 papers in the reference sample.
| Research orientation | This field | Reference sample |
|---|---|---|
| Promising | 35.9% | 36.8% |
| Problem-identifying | 19.8% | 10.0% |
| Descriptive | 16.9% | 17.6% |
| Breakthrough | 15.8% | 26.4% |
| Cautionary | 7.2% | 4.5% |
| Comparative | 2.9% | 3.8% |
| Critical | 1.5% | 0.9% |
Concerns receiving less research attention
Counts and shares refer to the stated research pool. A low count describes how much of that research is recorded here, not the absence of a real-world concern.
| Concern / example paper | Papers | Share | Raised as a problem | Worldwide share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Privacy & surveillanceThe State and Future of Smart Agriculture: Insights from mining social media | 6 | 1.01% | 2 (33.3%) | 1.19% |
| Labour & data workThe Impact of India’s Rural Employment Guarantee on Demand for Agricultural Technology | 5 | 0.84% | 2 (40.0%) | 0.21% |
| Energy & datacenter footprint | 0 | 0.0% | 0 (%) | 0.12% |
| Water use | 0 | 0.0% | 0 (%) | 0.0% |
| Carbon & emissions of compute | 0 | 0.0% | 0 (%) | 0.0% |
| Hardware, e-waste & supply chain | 0 | 0.0% | 0 (%) | 0.04% |
| Safety & misuse | 0 | 0.0% | 0 (%) | 0.0% |
| Bias & fairness | 0 | 0.0% | 0 (%) | 0.04% |
| Concentration of compute power | 0 | 0.0% | 0 (%) | 0.01% |
Institution and researcher rankings use citations to their covered work. Research scope: United States. This may be broader than the company geography.
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