# Towards Climate Smart Farming--A Reference Architecture for Integrated Farming Systems
## 6 Conclusions  
The food supply chain is a key strategic sector globally, from both economic and labor perspectives. This sector is also critical to meet the great societal challenges of sustainable farming, food security, food safety and healthy nutrition, now and in the future, which constitute without a doubt the most important priorities for both citizens and policy makers. Nevertheless, agriculture is at a crossroads on a global level. The increasing digitalization of agricultural practices makes it possible to produce plant and animal products with ever higher efficiency and ever lower environmental impact. Therefore, the agri-food sector is expected to become more and more data-driven by the use of ICT, while the need for AgTech-enabled innovation will become greater than ever. A number of technologies not traditionally used in the agri-food sector are now starting to play a key role in what is perceived as an AgTech revolution. Automation, artificial intelligence, drones, big data and cloud analytics offer us the opportunity to further our mastery of agriculture. The Industrial Revolution 4.0 is expected to generate disruptive changes in agricultural practices and pave the way for new innovative ideas that aspire to obtain market share from a billion dollar market. This ICT-revolution is expected to further advance and evolve smart farming/smart agriculture, including CSA and precision agriculture.  
In this work, a multi-actor architecture introduced as a reference for the innovative concept of CSA was applied in integrated agricultural systems, such as MFS. The proposed architecture aims at providing a CSA-based, multi-actor and community-oriented architecture, enhanced with models, tools, frameworks and cutting-edge solutions, for advancing the current farming system to a smart, resilient and integrated/mixed farming ecosystem, aiming at increasing the resilience of the underlying farms, crops, livestock and forestry against the negative impacts of the climate change. The next step of this work is to conduct a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the performance of the proposed architecture in the two pilots, based on specific KPIs.  
Conceptualization, G.K. and P.S.; methodology, P.S. and T.L.; validation, P.S., K.Z. and C.K.; formal analysis, T.L.; investigation, A.M.; resources, C.K.; data curation, C.K.; writing--original draft preparation, G.K.; writing--review and editing, P.S.; visualization, G.K.; supervision, P.S.; project administration, T.L.; funding acquisition, P.S. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.  
This research was funded by European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement number 957406 (TERMINET).  
Informed Consent Statement: Informed consent was obtained from all subjects involved in the study.  
This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement number 957406 (TERMINET).  
The authors declare no conflict of interest. The funders had no role in the design of the study; in the collection, analyses or interpretation of data; in the writing of the manuscript; or in the decision to publish the results.