This book is concerned with the systemic examination of the prospects for the development of smart agriculture for sustainable development. This book substantiates the top-priority significance of smart innovation in agriculture for modern economic and ecological systems. The book not only examines the theoretical concept of smart agriculture, but also gives consideration to the rule of thumb in terms of its implementation in different countries worldwide. The book contains both fundamental and applied recommendations on the innovative technological development of smart agriculture in modern economic and ecological systems for sustainable development. The book is not limited to a single vector of development of smart agriculture, but is representative of all of them, making it possible to describe the future prospects in the fullest, most reliable and accurate manner, and to comprehensively present the directions for its development. The book has developed and applied an advanced and sophisticated methodology, the advantage of which consists in the reliance on big data with the use of datasets, which allows improving accuracy, reliability, authenticity, and coverage of results.

Elena G. Popkova has Doctor of Science (Economics) and is the founder and president of the Institute of Scientific Communications (Russia) and leading researcher of the Center for Applied Research of the chair "Economic policy and public-private partnership" of Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) (Moscow, Russia). Her scientific interests include the theory of economic growth, sustainable development, globalization, humanization of economic growth, emerging markets, social entrepreneurship, and the digital economy and Industry 4.0. She organizes all-Russian and international scientific and practical conferences, is the editor and author of collective monographs, and serves as a guest editor of international scientific journals. She has published more than 300 works in Russian and foreign peer-reviewed scientific journals and books. Bruno S. Sergi, Ph.D., is the professor of international economics, University of Messina, and associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University. He teaches at the Harvard Extension School on the economics of emerging markets and the political economy of Russia and China. He is an associate of Harvard University's Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. He also teaches political economy and international finance at the University of Messina, Italy. He is the series editor of Cambridge's Elements in the Economics of Emerging Markets (Cambridge University Press), as well as the editor for Entrepreneurship and Global Economic Growth and a co-series editor of Lab for Entrepreneurship and Development (Emerald Publishing). He is the founder and editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Trade and Global Markets, the International Journal of Economic Policy in Emerging Economies, and the International Journal of Monetary Economics and Finance. He is an associate editor of The American Economist. He has published several articles in scholarly journals and many books as an author, co-author, editor, or co-editor. His academic career and advisory roles have established him as a frequent guest and commentator on matters of contemporary developments in political economies and emerging markets in a wide range of media. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Greenwich Business School, London.